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Jordan Donica is so Raoul-coded in the Gilded Age lol.

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Sometimes I just think: Davis Gaines.

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By request, I present Phantom Hands™: self-caressing edition

Davis Gaines

Laird Mackintosh

Hugh Panaro

Anthony Warlow

Michael Crawford

Peter Jöback

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Turns out that Jordan Donica was cast as the Phantom in London last year! He decided to stay to film for The Gilded Age, and also ended up having a run in Sunset Boulevard.

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Trista Moldovan is also one of my favorite Hugh pairings after Sandra Joseph.

Whor--I mean Hugh!--Panaro and Trista Moldovan (2012).

This man should be arrested for how he sang "and listen to" and "open up your mind" this performance.

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May not make it to the stream tonight because I may or may not be in a New Orleans casino, but my thoughts and gifs go with Hugh Panaro and Sandra Joseph and the stream gang lol.

Hugh Panaro & Sandra Joseph, POTO Broadway 2003

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Will I ever see Jordan Donica play Erik?

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I have a half-baked theory that Erik knew on some subconscious level he was dying in the novel longer than we're led to think. That may be partly why he latched onto the idea of Christine so fervently as his last chance at happiness. It could also be why he was so willing to blow up himself and Paris into smithereens; a kind of "fuck it, I'm dying anyway" move.

Even his waxing poetic about wanting to live like a normal man with a wife he could take out on Sundays could be just that, a want, not something he thought he could actually achieve. Yet because he's so far gone in his insanity -- perhaps fueled by his fatal illness -- that reality doesn't matter anymore, and he just wants Christine with him at the very end of his life.

I don't know. Like I said, this is a half-baked theory. I could easily be convinced otherwise.

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Dean Chisnall and Eve Shanu-Wilson.

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Think I've officially exhausted every 50,000+ word E/C fanfic available on AO3, yikes what am I to do?

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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. 🥴😅

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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.