#the phantom of the auditorium

[blogthebooklover]

Stop! I had no idea it was Phantom's birthday!!! Your reblog made me gasp. Do you have a favourite adaptation????? 🤌❤️

Great question, @french-vanilla-in-the-clouds! I haven't seen too many of the film adaptations, like the Chinese "Song at Midnight" or its remake, or The Phantom Lover. I would like to thank the YouTube channel, Phantom Reviews, for introducing me to the other adaptations of Phantom. Here's a list of my personal favorite POTO adaptations:

The Phantom of the Opera (1925-1929)

This was actually the first silent film I ever watched as a kid, I was around 9 or 10 years old and it was also around the same time that the Andrew Lloyd Webber movie was coming out. I love Lon Chaney's performance as Erik, and his ability as a makeup artist as well. This holds a special place in my heart, because I remember watching it at my grandmother's house. I hope someone can make a proper adaptation of the book with today's technology; however, this is probably the closest one we have so far.

(look at the way he clenches his fist on his sleeve, A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!)

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

I remember liking this more as a kid and a teen, this has become more of a guilty pleasure movie for me now as an adult. I do appreciate some of the costume designs, I think my favorite is a tie between Christine's masquerade dress and her Think of Me dress. Minnie Driver is always fun to watch as La Carlotta, and Patrick Wilson did his best as Raoul. If it were made today with Emmy Rossum's acting abilities from being on Shameless, I think it could've worked beautifully, I'll give her some leeway because she was a teenager then.

(This is my favorite shot of Erik, btw)

The Phantom of the Opera (1990)

Btw, this was actually my first introduction to Charles Dance before Game of Thrones. I know this is technically also an adaptation of another musical prior to Lloyd Webber's, Yeston and Kopit; regardless, I like how this version of Erik is more on the sweet side, but he does have his limits (and I love his sarcastic remarks about Carlotta lol). I wish we could have seen what his disfigurement looked like, however, I do appreciate how the filmmakers wanted the audience to imagine it for themselves.

Goosebumps' The Phantom of the Auditorium (1995)

Okay, so I haven't actually read any of the Goosebumps books. I liked watching the TV show a bit more. This episode was a fun, kid-friendly version of Phantom.

(excuse the crappy quality of the photo)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Okay, this one is a lot of fun. I do like how it was more rock and roll, and I like this Phantom's design, it almost reminds me of Panna a Nevtor, or the Czechoslovak Beauty and the Beast movie. There's definitely some campiness to the film as well, especially with Beef (the La Carlotta counterpoint), and Winslow's court case scene.

Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)

I have a soft spot for this one, because it was the first time where I saw clips of the Lon Chaney film featured in the beginning. On paper, I do like the premise of a guy haunting a movie theater, and I do like some of the more "Phantom" moments where he's disrupting each theater with something, like the projector bubbling out, or the dinosaur balloon. Also, I do like Mickey Rooney's speech about movies and movie-going.

[cosmignon]

Through music they found their connection!

ID: An illustration of Zeke, a young boy with short hair, and Brooke, a young girl with long hair and glasses. Brooke is gesturing dramatically as she holds a flashlight between the two. The light cast on the wall becomes the impressions of a masked phantom and a beautiful woman holding a rose together. End ID.

[randomnessoffiction]

@hobbitmajora Check this out!

[rainbow-neko-artblog]

I was so busy being a starstruck brooke kinny that i forgot to upload this to tumblr

[calebs-hangout-corner]

Phantom of the Auditory Processing Disorder

[thebroadwaybi]

My favorite genre of Alex Brightman:

Spooky Singing Demon

[quixoticrobotic]

literally no one: what if there was a musical based on one specific Goosebumps book

Danny Abosch:

[mangocheese37]

Pov: you find a new musical which has Will Roland, Alex Brightman, Noah Galvin, AND Krystina Alabado and it is freaking amazing!!

but then you find out there is the smallest fan base, hardly any YouTube videos about it, 2 animatics (of the same song, and one is a Gatcha one and the other is a my little pony one), there is hardly any memes of it, it's a musical based on a tv show episode, based on a book, based on a musical, based on a movie, based on a book and there's no slime tutorials of it.

[bustlingcrowdsxorxsilentsleepers]

Because she fell, and fell hard

He was battered and scarred

But she could see that inside, there was more

Something alluring, she'd find

In the sadness behind

That terrifying mask he wore

[sexynbgfpollhost]

This song is way too good to just be from a Goosebumps musical:

Context, it's basically a musical inside of a musical. The characters are performing The Phantom of The Opera and this song is basically a girl explaining to her friend a summary of the musical. She's gonna play Christine and her friend is gonna play the phantom.

[jellytamalies]

they phantoms sure love them theaters

[cosmignon]

Just calling to say

I'm so sorry your best friend tried to ruin the play~!

ID: An illustration of Tina, a teenage girl with pigtails, saying "Hey Brooke!" while using an old corded phone and laying on a heart shaped pillow. She has the cord coiled around her fingers while she smiles and kicks her feet behind her. End ID.

[grimdark-gnostic]

they would’ve loved tgwdlm (brooke and zeke)

[the-musical-theateratic-universe]

[calebs-hangout-corner]

Gooooooosebumps! Gooooooooosebumps! You’re going numb and growing Goooooosebumps!