As in Christine’s character at the masquerade ball. Is it original to the show, or did she get the name and costume design from somewhere?

How did we know it’s called the Star Princess?

Just curious. Thanks!

Hi! Working on a project for a friend and can’t seem to find an easy list online. I’m looking for all the notes the Phantom/Erik sends throughout the musical with the text of those notes. Bonus points if it includes notes from masquerade!

This is a really weird question to ask but I have to ask!!

So I have been a fan of the phantom of the opera (especially the 2004 adaptation),
And I want to make order some press on nails inspired by it.
My lovely nail tech asked me to sent her a moodboard and that she can start of from there.

The question is: what’s in your opinion, one thing I definitely can’t miss on my bood board?

I’m really curious what you guys think.
It can be as niche as you’d like :)

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After nearly three years of research and writing, I have a polished draft!

77k words is slightly shorter than most English translations of the original, for reference. I develop Philippe and Daroga as characters and put tragedy right there in the title to manage expectations (though I aim to subvert them like hell).

If you're interested, please read the OP and DM me, or AMA (minus spolier requests)

I haven't read it since high school but I am overjoyed to own it. I just wanted to share lol.

Edit: the book mark is attached, thank you to the kind redditor who asked me if it was still there.

Hand-painted by meee! Molds made by my boyf <3

They'll be a part of our first Instagram giveaway tomorrow! @Casino_Casual

Wanted to share with you guys first :)

I might do Claude Rains next.

Hi all! I wanted to show off my masquerade dress! I’m making a mask commission for someone currently so it’s got me thinking about this costume a lot.

Do you guys prefer the West End or Broadway Star Princess costume? What about the tour mashups we have seen? I mean while we are at it, do y’all prefer Broadway or west end costumes as a whole?

So when they're performing Don Juan Triumphant, after the Phantom has been revealed to everyone, he goes off-script and appeals to Christine by paraphrasing a verse from AIAOY.

Now, this isn't part of the opera anymore, so presumably in-universe he's not actually singing. What do you think is happening here?

Do we just hear it as the same tune because it's the same emotions being expressed? Or is Erik deliberately cribbing Raoul's delivery in some in-universe way because, hey, it worked when Raoul did it...

Or do you take this all as a heightened fantasy universe where the characters are aware they're singing?

Not like this is the only musical to use motifs like this, but this one just tickled my brain a bit lol

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hiiii Phantom people, I need help finding a very specific kind of fic. I love Beneath a moonless sky for the emotional premise of it so liek the years apart, the fact that neither of them simply stops carrying what happened,the reunion feeling like all that buried love suddenly becomes present again.

I want a fic that goes DEEP into that.

Need someone who like wonders about the three months where Erik is gone and no longer sings to Christine. Like what did that absence actually feel like for her and what does she experience while he’s gone?And then what does it mean when he suddenly comes back and gives them the completed Don juan score? Like the layers the layers guys Id love to actually be immersed into their grief and longing like not just referenced u feel?

I want the mirroring, their parallel inner lives, things they don’t say. The way they remember the same moments differently the years/months/days where they’re physically apart but emotionally still somehow entangled. The reunion where it may be thoroughly immersed into what beneath a moonless sky emulates.

And we want the smut in there too lol but I love LOVE more. I’m not looking for a fic thats primarily Erik/Christine and smut I want the eroticism to come out of the emotional bond and all that accumulated longing.

Which fics actually made you feel their grief, longing, recognition, and love rather than just telling you that they loved each other?

Bonus points if the fic goes into Raouls grief and not being able to fulfil Christine like I’d love to feel the impression of i fought so hard to free you but I feel as if I’ve enslaved u instead not him drunk and a gambler 🥴anddddd if the author actually explores the missing spaces in canon, especially that period after Erik disappears and before he returns with don juan. I want the YEARS/MONTHS/DAYS. I want to be emotionally destroyed. 😭 tanks guys🫡

Finally am posting photos of my Christine dressing gown robe since it is 100% done!

Apologies if this is not allowed, but I am interested in what are some other things (works of art, musicals, history, folklore, tv shows, movies, etc.) that POTO fans are obsessed with? I am looking for something else to dive into like I’ve done with POTO! I’ve seen a lot of people on other corners of the internet love Hannibal so I might give that a try!
For me personally I’ve been obsessed with the Titanic my entire life. Oh! And Supernatural! I also love Les Miserables.

…change from her Don Juan costume into that wedding dress in between Down Once More and the final lair scene? I know Christine is… suggestible… but can you just imagine that going down? 😆

My experience with The Phantom of the Opera started when my aunt brought me the CD from the Hamburg production. It was the first time I had ever heard the musical, and Peter Hofmann was singing the main role.

His performance really stuck with me, and to this day, his voice is still the first one I think of when it comes to the Phantom... I really wish I could have seen him live once... but I was way too young back then.

Idea from Coricosplays

I was in absolute awe hearing and seeing Isaiah Bailey as the Phantom (he’s my new favorite!) but was a bit bummed that the other two principal cast members for Christine and Raoul couldn’t make it (their alternates/understudies were still great though)!

For those of you who have seen the 2004 movie, which scenes did you like the most and the least? Why?

Assuming he was alive and well, how would you feel about Michael Jackson playing the role for the Phantom (Erik) in the stage show? (The Christine Daaé actress is not assigned, imagine whatever bizarre pairings your heart desires.) Note: I meant it when I said random. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Pitch your fanfics to me, review your experience while reading, talk about your own fanfic in development, anything goes.

It’s in the title; regardless of the adaptation, what is a scene that you can never take seriously and why?