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Saturday, July 26, 2025 • 9 p.m. EST: Hugh Panaro, Sandra Joseph & Tim Martin Gleason (Broadway 2005)

In honor of Masquerade NYC opening July 31, I thought we'd pay tribute to a legend with his final performance as Phantom (during his first run) in 2005. A CLASSIC. Features a speech from Sandra Joseph at the end.

As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ! Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.

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My brain just short circuited.

This is also how I know Hugh was LYING when he suggested he had to dig deep to find the Phantom's sexiness.

Okay so Hugh Panaro did a full scene from Phantom at a concert and the way they blocked MOTN is the better fantasy for Erik and Christine than LND. And the way he TEASES the actress with a kiss in character is PEAK

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Jon Robyns & Chumisa Dornford-May, POTO West End 2024.

This duo personally victimized me in 4K last night.

(📷: @or-what-you-will)

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Hello everyone! After some debate in the chat for a few streams, I’ve decided to start an official Phantom of the Opera Saturday Stream Dictionary!

This is by all means a group project, and I would like to invite all of you to add to this list!

For a system I would suggest to send me your entries by DM or Ask, so that I don’t lose any additions in the reblogs, tags, comments etc. I would update the entire post every other week with the collected additons

As always feedback and corrections are highly appreciated!

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Barb

Name of the Mirror Bride/ the Mannequin the Phantom reveals during The Music of the Night, which reappears during the Final Lair

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Cuckling

A typo of chuckling by myself, when referring to the dark laughter the Phantom does before letting the chandelier fall

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Daddying

Name form the general debate if during the Graveyard Scene/ Wandering Child if the lyrics will be far-reaching, or fathering. In case of fathering the Phantom is daddying

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HAND

General Term for any hand movement done by (mostly) the Phantom and how it elevates the given scene

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J in the chat

A reference to the crack-fic Rope Burn by @nokturnal-me during the rehearsal scene for Don Juan

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KEEP DANCING

A general call-in during tense scenes. Originates from Key & Peele Skit Aerobics Meltdown we watched during a stream intermission

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La puta roja (Spanish for the red whore)

An endearing term chat likes to call the Phantom as the Red Death during the Masquerade Scene

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M in the chat, to moisten the boy

Gets typed during the scene where Raoul prepares to enter the lair of the Phantom. A reference to the fact that the actors get moistened to simulate that Raoul had to swim to reach the lair

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N in the chat, for Nap

An official term by @wheel-of-fish. Get typed during the reveal of Piangi after the Point of No Return. He is only sleeping don’t worry

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Maskenball

The German term/lyric for the term Masquerade. Get typed sometimes during the chorus of Masquerade

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SECURE, (in German GESCHLOSSEN)

An utterance by chat in order to help close the door before the performance of Don Juan.

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Seepage

From a text screen of the 1925 film: The Phantom's last line of defense—a deep lake, formed of seepage from the river Seine.

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Smirling

A typo by @wismoth meant to be smirking. 18th of May 2025

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Thighsa

A typo by @from-aldebaran meant to be Thighs during the Phantom kneeling in front of Christine during Music of the Night, see this post by @meilas. 19th of July 2025

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Just thinking about how Jon Robyns has very expressive head and neck movements in addition to hands. 🥴😅

(@or-what-you-will's master)

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Yeah, these ILYs really did me in. I blame them for everything. Especially that last one.

I need to give Norm Lewis much more credit than I do for pulling me headlong into the phandom.

Because I got obsessed with his cover of Bring Him Home from Les Mis in February, and then the algorithm was like "you should watch him in POTO too" and I said "*gasp* Wait, you mean to tell me there are bootlegs of Phantom?!" and then the algorithm replied, "Yes, so while you're watching Norm you should just go ahead and watch everybody in the history of the show!" And months later, here we are.

And now I almost never talk about Norm's Phantom (or Ted Keegan's really, which was the first I saw live?!?) because I've grown to love other interps more. But Norm still delivered one of my favorite set of repeated "I love you's" in the final lair.

So thanks, Norm lol.

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I need to give Norm Lewis much more credit than I do for pulling me headlong into the phandom.

Because I got obsessed with his cover of Bring Him Home from Les Mis in February, and then the algorithm was like "you should watch him in POTO too" and I said "*gasp* Wait, you mean to tell me there are bootlegs of Phantom?!" and then the algorithm replied, "Yes, so while you're watching Norm you should just go ahead and watch everybody in the history of the show!" And months later, here we are.

And now I almost never talk about Norm's Phantom (or Ted Keegan's really, which was the first I saw live?!?) because I've grown to love other interps more. But Norm still delivered one of my favorite set of repeated "I love you's" in the final lair.

So thanks, Norm lol.

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Cast announcement for the PotO World Tour in Bangkok (x)

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I love that Tumblr is filled with people writing essay-length posts about why Bride and Prejudice is one of the strongest P&P adaptations so that I don't have to lol.

But seriously, Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson absolutely nail Lizzy and Darcy's flaws and virtues. Henderson is one of the only actors I've seen who convincingly shows that Darcy is equal parts shy, arrogant, elitist, socially awkward and in love--which is a catastrophic mix that guarantee's he'll be an asshole 75% of the time he speaks.

And that argument where Lalita gags Darcy with her analysis of how Western tourism is just imperialism's afterlives? WHEW.

Bride and Prejudice is actually a hella accurate modern adaptation, it deserves its flowers.

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Everyone’s always talking about 2005 Pride and Prejudice or the BBC series of it, but what we should all be talking about instead is the perfection that is Bride and Prejudice. First off, by putting it in India with the ‘Bennett’ family now being racially and ethnically Indian, it gives the mother context and lets her fit in better with the society and culture around her as just another interfering, matchmaking mother and it’s by far the best version of Mrs. Bennett I’ve seen. Also, Lalita going off on Darcy and Mr. Kohli (collins) about racism and diaspora is majestic, like having Darcy being some white American colonizer asshole hotel empire heir and then having an Indian Lizzie dunk on his ass is beyond satisfying.

I’d also add that people have hated on this version of Darcy because he sucks, but I love this version because Darcy always has sucked and this movie just does an excellent job showcasing it. Darcy was a dick for most of Pride and Prejudice but we’re supposed to see him as being fully redeemed by the end, even though we only get full explanations and apologies for a few specific things he did and then all he did to redeem himself was just write a check to a guy he didn’t like and go against his controlling aunt to propose to Lizzie again. In this movie, the Lydia character (Lakhi) and Wickham don’t get married and all Darcy does is help Lalita run all over London and find her sister to bring her home, then they basically just cut to a double wedding with them and the Jane/Bingley pair (Balraj and Jaya) and I like that because it’s a clearer representation of about how much effort Mr. Darcy actually put into his redemption in the book. It also helps that they show the arc of the relationship differently so, by this point, it’s like Lalita does love him and she’s waiting for him to show her that he’s actually a decent person, so she takes this and a couple other little things and runs with it.

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Bride and Prejudice is actually a hella accurate modern adaptation, it deserves its flowers.

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Tomas Ambt Kofod & Sibylle Glosted, POTO Copenhagen 2019

Thank you @markbbrooklyn for reminding me how much Kofod and Glosted absolutely wreck me with all their freaking face and hand touching *crying emoji*.

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also I'm peeking at the jon/chumisa boot and he should be ARRESTED

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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Saturday, July 19, 2025 • 9 p.m. EST: Jon Robyns, Chumisa Dornford-May & Joe Griffiths-Brown (London 2024)

I have been waiting MONTHS to watch this one, and I am SO. EXCITED. Jon and Joe are amazing, and it will be my first time streaming Chumisa! Thanks to @or-what-you-will for yet another boot! eeeee

As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ! Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.