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Idea: Every musical takes place at the same time, in the same universe, and it’s a pitch perfect au
Finished my Phantom Copia sketches! Please enjoy angels of music! ♥️✨
the final performance of phantom on broadway - april 16th, 2023
My second-favourite movie Phantom after Chaney's 🖤🌹🩸
Get to know me?
I kinda realized I never really introduced myself, so uh, hi!
My name is Echo :D I am pansexual and genderfluid, as for pronouns, I have no preferences, just don't call me an 'attack helicopter' and we'll be chillin'
I am 16, currently in Junior year, actually really enjoying it right now!
In most of my DR's my name is Eleanor, which is why its my user! I just feel connected to both names
Some non-shifting facts about me:
I have olive-green eyes
I have been singing/playing guitar/acting for around 10 years and I danced for 8 years (still dance for theater and funsies)
I play acoustic, electric, and a little bass
I am in a band as a lead singer and guitarist, we are called "Vessels of Rebirth"!!!
I am an alto-soprano! which is very fun as I can sing very diverse styles of music (my favorites being folk, rock, and gospel)
I am a Christian and follower of God, to whom I love dearly
Although I am a Christian, I do a lot of tarot reading, and I also see and speak with the deceased as well as have prophetic dreams on occasion. I currently have 3 spirits residing in my house, they are quite nice! (Also if you guys have any suggestions on incense please let me know! I need to add to my stash)
I do a ton of art, whether it be sewing, drawing, painting, photography, or making things out of materials, you will always find me with a new project (I'm currently working on a plushie bee for my friend in my Java class!!)
Speaking of java I am loving coding, that shit is cool
At the moment, I am leading in two shows (one is a murder mystery comedy, like clue, where the audience decides who the murderer is! The second is Spamalot, and I am the female lead, Lady of the Lake!!) I am also in the ensemble of Hadestown and doing crew for Little Mermaid! So a ton of theater stuffs going on (would you believe me if I told you I have 6 different theater-based DR's?? teehee)
I do a ton of reading, I love books; it's one of my dreams to have a Hobbit-inspired book room in my future house, complete with a circle door
I have a massive collection of plushies and stuffed animals, all of which I have named and remember perfectly (I love them sm)
My favorite colors are: forest/emerald green, sunset orange, TEAL!!!, deep purples, navy blue, maroon, pastel yellow, and blue/ashy grey
I am very Portuguese, and I love Portuguese food, my favorite being Bifanas
I have two pets, a 7 year old golden retriever named Ridge and an 11 month old ragdoll cat named Dexter (short for Dexteria, yes I am a DnD nerd)
Speaking of DnD, I am currently DM'ing three campaigns, and I'm in around 10-15 other campaigns, I love DnD a lot, it's one of my favorite hobbies
Onto shifting related stuff!
I have been shifting(minishifting partially, still shifting though!!!) since I was around 8 I guess? I didn't realize that was what I was doing at the time, and around 2021 I found out about shifting through a classmate (who brought it up at the most random time possible, an ELA class lol)
The first actual DR I ever made was a My Hero Academia reality, and by birds all mighty that script was ROUGH
But I still hold it close to my heart, even though it was so cringy
I took a break from shifting for like 7 months to a year at most, I believed in it, I just felt more content in my CR, but now I am at a point where I want to explore and be fully happy and learn and grow as myself!
Here is a list of my main DR's!
MPHFPC
Waiting Room
Phantom of the Opera
DnD homebrew (x3)
Better CR
Ever After High DR (x2)
Theater related (x6)
Apartment DR (x2)
Big Bang Theory
ASOUE
College DR (Harvard obviously)
Mad Scientist DR (before you ask, it's a book I'm writing, and No I am not the mad scientist)
Hogwarts (Not my favorite, but definitely for the vibes, witch-craft and ooo riding brooms is super fun! I kinda stay away from the main characters to the best of my ability, besides George tho, that man has my heart)
Those are my most recent ones, they all have their little quirks and loveliness that make them unique to me, if you have any questions about them I would be happy to answer!
I mainly post about my MPHFPC DR and more recently my Waiting Room, since they are the two realities I go to
I hope you guys enjoyed and got to know me a bit better, my asks/comments are always open so feel free to stop in and say ahoy!
Bye-bye for now :D
I just had an epiphany
Erik was the first Nice Guy. He even wears a fedora
happy early halloween mother fuckers
danny has come to party
also thank you for 200 followers!!!!!
I was scrolling through and found this. The Phantom of the Opera will forever live on. I never got to actually watch it and now I regret it. RIP Phantom of the Opera
Since I made the post about how it was gonna end soon that happened to get widely shared I thought I’d give it a send off post as well.
There is ONE song I don't like so much in Phantom.
I know I will disappoint some people but it's Music Of The Night.
Don't know why but I don't like this song and I always skips it when I watch Phantom
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I LOVE YOU !
stop the raoul and Christine hate, Christine daaé did nothing wrong.
( well, she did kind of, But we’ll get to that later, I’m also defending poor Erik here.)
so one day I was scrolling through Instagram, and my christine loving heart finds a comment like this,
“Christine is a selfish, little slut. She doesn’t deserve erik. Well, the best men find the worst women i suppose,”
or something like that , I did post about it before I wiped out my account because one, I didn’t enjoy the things I was doing with my account—anyhow, I’m sure you can find the original post on a reblog.
but that comment really did infuriate me. I bet they hate raoul, I just know they do. And no, that’s not the first Christine hater I have encountered— In fact, they’re everywhere on Pinterest, indeed—everywhere!
Oh, and another thing! Why do people hate raoul? Because of Love Never Dies? Even with the sequel, he is an amazing character!
I don’t like what they did with love never dies . . The music is outstanding, but really, the ironic ending is too good to continue , leave that to the fanfiction writers who want a better ending for poor Erik. I’m sure the Phangirls screamed at Webber for having a poor ending for Erik , Even though Gaston Leroux wanted it that way.
(Or...I’m convinced it was made for Brightman, whom divorced Webber, responding to that— Webber made a self insert fanfiction— and made Christine perish.)
But anyways, Christine feared Erik, that’s the thing. Yes, I’m sure christine loved Erik, Erik is supposed to be a sympathetic villain.
But he murders people, manipulated the entire opera house, threaten to take raoul’s life many times in the book, kept her down for two weeks in the book, tied Christine up in the book, made Christine choose between the death of many people of Paris or marriage—must I go on?
Now, I’m more of an E/C shipper myself. But why hate on Raoul and Christine? Why hate on Raoul because of something he couldn’t control? Why hate on Christine becuase she was told to go by the poor man, who she was afraid of and chose Raoul?
Now here’s were i défend Erik.
Erik didn’t know how to love. Erik didn’t know how to do anything but kill. He saw a light and loved her because she was kind and could bring him music, kind of in the mindset— “Well, maybe she could bring me happiness, joy.. something other than agony, that’s what I’ve always wanted ,”
But he was too demanding, scary and angry. (Half of the phandom, including I- ship Erik x Therapy, hell, he made a mannequin in a replica of his crush, I’m scared of what that mannequin has seen.)
Raoul had no control over whom Christine would choose, but he was sweet; a boyish charm and warm. Yes, nobody likes that boy. But he’ll treat you better, would you like a toxic man who has known nothing but pain? Or a warm, kind gentleman who would protect you with his life? Both would die for you, but one is more mentally stable than the other.
Oh, yes. The answer you may choose- the toxic man, so you could “teach him love,” I’m looking at you, wattpad. I am in an anti-raoul club. I can confirm however I want an Anti-Raoul & erik club because they don’t deserve the goddess we call Christine Daae.
Like, let’s be honest, they’re both not good, but the better choice would be raoul, maybe if Erik didn’t do all the not-so-good things I listed in the 9th paragraph of this rant, (I hardly even call these paragraphs, maybe—ninth glob of sentences?)
Okay, the title is kind of clickbait— Christine did do something wrong. But not because she left erik! Because she tore off his mask after he said repeatedly not to!
I do agree why she did it, possibly because she thought it was someone she already knew, (the MazM game explained it perfectly.)
But overall, she didn’t do much wrong, she did what she could, and tried to do something, anything to protect others from erik.
Christine Daaé did not do anything wrong, as neither did Viscount Raoul De Chagny.
(okay that’s a lie, raoul didn’t listen to christine—but that doesn’t make it okay to hate raoul.)
Re-watch Phantom was a good thing !
I love Hadley Fraser and Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Bogess ! They are so good together !
I still hate Erik ! Despite all my sister said, that I would like him when I'll re-watch the musical. Ha ! I was right ! Still hate you Erik !
Sill love you Raoul ! And still love you Christine !
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I have a question !
In Love Never Dies, the eponime song says :
" Love never dies
Love never falters
Once it has spoken
Love is yours
Love never fades
Love never alters
Hearts may get broken
Love endures "
So WHY does she "fall in love" with Erik !? She was in love with Raoul ! And then when she said that love never dies she just goes with the Phantom ?! The man who just kidnaps her, kills a lot of people, try to kill Raoul and ( spoilers for those who have not read the book ! ) almost destroy the Opera and a district / quarter of Paris !
Why ? I need answers ;-;
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So I just finished Phantom ( the book ) and I'm a bit confused...
Erik just wanted to be a normal person, who can go outside without judgement, who can have a wife and live outside. He was just too ugly for that...
He had to hide himself and his genius when he could have been one of the best person of the human race if he had a normal face.
Gaston Leroux think that he deserve pity so why not ? He spoke with people who saw Erik but he yet pray for God to have pity for him...
I think I can't forgive what he have done but I think I can have a little bit of pity...
Still, I'm really feeling strange and maybe I have to have a big reflexion for this !
Sorry for the long post and thanks to read it all !
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Unpopular opinion : I don't like Erik.
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I have a question !
Am I the only one who noticed that "Look with your heart" from Love Never Dies really looks like "Le Petit Prince" ( a French novel of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ) ?
In the book, there is this quote ( I'll write it in French and English ) :
In French : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
In English : "You can only see well with the heart, the essential is invisible to the eyes."
Now the song : "So look with your heart And not with your eyes"
Christine sing this because, to her, you can see well with you heart only.
It's quite similar and I don't know if it's a reference to the novel or not but I like it !
So am I the only one who noticed ?
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Okay now I'm talking about real things!
To all the girls ( or boys ) who are like : "I'm soooooo in love with Erik ! I don't care about his face ! After all, he have just half of his face which is disformed ! The other side is handsome.".
...let me tell you something...
Here's Ramin Karimloo as The Phantom of The Opera. He his half disformed and half handsome. Great.
Now let me show you the original Opera Ghost, the one described in the novel of Gaston Leroux.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Phantom of The Opera !
Not the same huh ?
His face is completely disformed and ugly. He literally looks like a skeleton.
Well he his the real one so if you fall in love with Erik, that's your man ! Not the half handsome man ! Because The Phantom is not handsome at all.
And actually he is uglier than the one in the photo.
I'm sorry to the majority who is not concerned ^^"
Sorry for the long post and thanks to read it all !
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So I watched Love Never Dies and I liked it ! Let me explain.
The actors, the costumes, some songs ( I think about "The beauty underneath" and "Devil take the hindmost" ) are incredible, charming, so good and all of this !
So yeah the characters are really weird...
Raoul is a bad father, Christine have a son with Erik (?) and I won't speak about the Giry's...
But it can show some interesting things !
For example:
Raoul is a bad father. He never plays with Gustave ( the son of Christine and Raoul think that he is his son but no ) and when Gustave try to play his own music he cut him.
Then we see Erik. He let Gustave plays his music and then he show to him some beautiful things.
So I think the show what to show that Erik, the one who never gets love or kindness, compassion, is a better father than Raoul whot got love and affection!
It's what I think and you probably have to watch the show to make your own point of view.
Sorry for the long post and thanks to read it all !
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Coming back to this because these are all the other musicals that should be recast with muppets:
1. Rent
Everyone is a muppet except the evil landlord, self explanatory, done. (I don’t know enough about rent to cast this one tbh but I think Scooter would be an excellent mark)
2. The Phantom of the Opera
The count is the phantom (join me in a fantasy world where the muppets and Sesame Street gang cross over- or it could also just be Gonzo I guess I like the idea of him as a homewrecker) miss piggy is Christine, kermit is raoul and the only humans are Meg and her mother. Additional cast members could be scooter as the stage manager, per the usual, Fozzie Bear as that one Italian opera singer but instead of singing he just wants to tell his jokes, Gonzo as Carlotta in a wig and statler and Waldorf as themselves heckling the opera
3. Jesus Christ Superstar
Hear me out ok, this one may be controversial, but miss piggy is Jesus, the slightly jaded, undeniable star of the show, and kermit is Judas, undeniably in love with her, but tired of her hogging the spotlight and feels she’s turned her back on what the muppets are really about. Beaker is Peter because he also looks like he would nope out when shit goes down and deny miss piggy, and Mary Magdalene should be played by renowned Broadway actress Philips Sousa because I just think that would be really cool if she hasn’t already played that role
4. Sweeney Todd
In which the animal plays unhinged sweeney todd, judge Turpin is Sam the eagle, miss piggy is Johanna, kermit is Anthony, and miss Lovett is played by Janice, who while I think lacks the manic energy needed for the role, would be a good chilled out foil to animal and bring a new flavour to the character of the crazy character who’s so deluded they make their actions seem almost sane
5. Little Shop of Horrors
I’m sorry I know I keep casting them as the two leads but kermit and miss piggy were born to play Audrey and Seymour, it is a pair that cannot be topped. The only change this makes to the original is that we all know miss piggy takes no shit so I think the stuff with the dentist (still played by Steve Martin because you can’t improve upon perfection) is a misinterpretation and she actually beats the ever living shit out of him for disrespecting her. Rizzo the rat should play the slimey businessman who buys Audrey Two, Statler and Waldorf are collectively mr mushnik, the chorus should also be human but I think the piece de resistance would be the Swedish chef as Audrey two and all the world is his chicken, and all the world should be deeply, deeply, afraid.
Tell me in the comments if I missed anyone or you have any casting ideas yourself!!
This has definitely been pitched before, but petition for a remake of les miserables where everyone is a muppet except Javert
"He really puts the petty in petty crime"
My bf about Erik💀
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