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Waterloo Bridge (1940)
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So do you end your days with me, or do you send him to his g r a v e ?
Why make her lie to you to s a v e m e ?
(David Arnsperger, Lauri Brons, Nicky Wuchinger)
Irrational exuberance under the willows.
boop!
[ hi! it's been an ETERNITY since I've been here, and i don't know who's still around! but dropping in again to say hello :) i hope everyone is well! ]
Let me be your light ( part II of this )
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Fly away but when you lie awake
Remember how we used to be
Phantom Comparisons
↳ The Cloak Flourish, Featuring: 1. Norm Lewis, “I’m getting too old for this”
2. Hugh Panaro, “Less is more” 3. Peter Hofmann, “Suave as shit” 4. John Cudia, ¡ Olé !
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Promotional trailer for the Paris production of The Phantom of the Operaaka the day I cried because there’s new footage of the 2008 London cast.
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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA #4 PROCESS SKETCHES: CHRISTINE DAAE
Christine’s ultimate role in the story is being the ‘damsel in distress’, who decides to stand up and face the man she fears and loves the most in the end. I thought of her as a butterfly of the opera (more of it shows in her room design) and a fragile but beautiful porcelain doll. She is always in fear of a man or angel she herself is confused if she thinks of him as a father or a teacher, or is he just a murderer. I tried to give her nervous eyes that would be keep looking around for what she fears and kept her hand gestures contained within her silhouette to show her shyness.
I actually hoped I had more time spent on characters to really draw them on point.. but you always have to be reasonable with the time you have. Next post will be the last character process sketch of Raoul and Dusty..I will be moving on to paintings and set design after that:)
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Two new faces are about to step into the lair. Broadway alum Ali Ewoldt and newcomer Jordan Donica will join the cast of The Phantom of the Opera. Beginning June 13, they will assume the roles of Christine and Raoul, respectively, taking over from Julia Udine and Jeremy Hays at the Great White Way’s Majestic Theatre. Ewoldt, who is half-Filipino, will be the first person of color to play Christine on the Main Stem. “It’s wild,” she told Broadway.com, “that people are now willing to talk about things they weren’t ten years ago, in terms of having real representation of the world we live in on stage.” As Asian-American actors are combating erasure and whitewashing, Ewoldt wants to ensure those conversations continue. “Hopefully someday, everything will be open and people will have truly equal opportunities, and we can say it doesn’t matter anymore. For the moment, the key is to show young people that it’s possible to be a storyteller. I want to be able to represent all the other people of color who aspire to play Christine someday.” The part of Christine is a natural fit for the soprano: “It’s always been on that list of roles I wanted to play.” She’s had this particular bullet point on the list since as early as age 10, when she sang “Think of Me” for a cruise ship audience. Now that she has the part, Ewoldt is preparing by “nerding out and watching a lot of YouTube videos,” particularly Sierra Boggess’ Broadway.com vlog Daaé Days. She’s most looking forward to a moment former Christine Sara Jean Ford explains in one episode: “I remember her saying that when you’re in the boat just before you’re in front of the audience, there’s a mirror, and you catch yourself at just the right moment and see the whole thing.” Ewoldt recently played Tuptim in the Chicago Lyric Opera production of The King and I, having previously understudied the role in the current Broadway revival. Her additional credits include Les Miserables and The Fantasticks. Donica has appeared on stage regionally in Jesus Christ Superstar, Dames at Sea and South Pacific.The Phantom of the Opera will mark his Broadway debut. When the two join the cast, current ensemble member Rachel Eskenazi-Gold will become the production’s alternate Christine, taking over for Rachel Zatcoff and playing the role twice a week. (x)
I will think of you, you
who are so far away
you have caused me to look up at the stars.
Tess Gallagher, “Under Stars” (via lentigos)
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Anonymous asked:
If it helps, I think the phantom would probably go for the most over the top, majestic, yet glamorous dress he could manage. Let's face it, he's a drama queen and he likes to have the best and all the atenttion.
omg I have pages on pages upon PAGES of wedding gown headcanons and it’s part of the reason I came up with so many designs and still can’t stop.
It all boils down to three main ideas, Erik’s, Raoul’s family’s, and Christine’s herself.
One is, and you nailed it, drama queen Erik. Lots of drama, lots of delicate hand beaded detail, thread from silkworms that went extinct 60 years ago. If he had his way, the gown would be couture in every sense of the word, but at the same time I don’t see him going too avant garde with it. He’s a traditionalist at heart (just thinking back to how he had plans for the Madeleine) so even everything he does himself is decades ahead of everyone else, his wedding gown is rooted in the image he’s always had in his head of normalcy. It would be something with a full skirt, a ball gown silhouette. I think I’ll have to whip something up with that criteria one of these days.
Raoul isn’t really that picky about Christine’s wedding gown (I remember being in the room with brides whose fiances hand a laundry list of of things they wanted in the dress and it just felt like long distance micromanagement. Yes, that means I’m saying Erik is 100% a micromanager) because he’s just really happy to be marrying the love of his life. Hoooooowever, Raoul hails from a very important and very prominent New York family. His sisters are all socialites and because their baby brother’s wedding is going to be the last big De Chagny one of this generation, THEY all have couture designers on speed dial and have made the executive decision for Christine that she should totally show off that dancer’s figure with a really magnificent trumpet and well corsetted bodice (most wedding gown bodices have boning for structure, but this is BONING) And this is one design that has been a staple in my always changing headcanons although I’ve updated the sketch itself to be a little more va va voom for my portfolio.
And finally Christine’s own idea is just, soft, simple, romantic, maybe with a hint of art deco inspiration. She’s not fussy, never has been. She’s all about the long flowy skirts, little or no volume. She traveled a lot with her father as a child, so I keep thinking the simplicity she has in mind for it came from that wanderlust. Most recently, the design I did for ‘her’ wedding gown would be the one sitting at the very top of that sketch round up and in this case, was inspired by the the Dressing Gown rather than the wedding gown.
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Paris Exposition, view from ground level of the Eiffel tower with Parisians promenading, 1889
Source: vintag.es
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12/50 moments from The Phantom of the Opera