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Post by phantomgirl110 on Feb 9, 2006 12:19:10 GMT -8
The stage show? The 2004 film? The novel? How?
I saw the stage show the first time when I was 10 years old. I actually didn't want to see it, and I was in a bad mood all day before the show. Needless to say, I fell in love. I saw it again later that year, and then twice again in 2003 (starring my favorite Phantom and Christine duo, Brad Little and Lisa Vroman). Now I've also read the novel, seen the Lon Chaney film, the Charles Dance film, the Robert Englund film, the Julian Sands film (*twitch*), and the 2004 ALW film. But the stage show will always be my favorite.
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Post by Opera Angel on Feb 9, 2006 14:28:39 GMT -8
This should be fun...one night TCM was showing a marathon of Lon Chaney's silent films...Phantom was showing at 3am (last one) and i wanted to see it ...so I set my alarm and i had a recordable tape so I could record it...heh first time I ever really got into the story itself...I even based my early try at rp Christine on the 1925 film...I had always seen the stamp but I always wondered what the movie was like..quite an exprience...other looks followed the books the other movie, mini, cd's and now pics, avatars, manips , music videos..Out of control!
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Post by phantomphreak4life on Jan 7, 2007 18:40:11 GMT -8
i see this thread hasnt been touched in awhile so i'll just jump in
in 8th grade i joined Foreign Language Club (dont worry we didnt actually do anything w/ foregin languages) and we decided we wanted to miss school for a day to see a show. we had 2 choices: POTO or Beauty and the Beast. POTO won 11:2.
i had never heard of POTO before so i cant tell you if the cast was a good one. I saw Hugh Panaro and Julie Hanson. I assume Panaro was good cuz everyone was pretty pissed when he left last year for Lestat. and of course most importantly, meg was played byKara Klein. any good?
after kicking the guy in front of me multiple times (can those chairs be any smaller and squished together?) i was hooked. and now i'm here =]
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Post by chorusgirl16 on Jan 17, 2007 14:21:17 GMT -8
I had seen the 2004 movie when it first came out, and I thought that it was lovely. That was really my first introduction to Phantom! I got to see the stage show soon after and that sealed my fate...(no pun intended lol!)...I simply fell in love with the show and I haven't stopped thinking about it since!  |
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Post by phantomluver4ever1 on Jan 17, 2007 14:54:10 GMT -8
Well when the movie came out my mom rented it. She said I should watch it and I might like it. So I watched it, but was confused why there was a lot of singing. My mom said it was based off of a play by Andrew Lloyd Webber. That cleared my confussion instantly. Then when I watched the movie again with my mom, some how the Phantom's magic put me under a spell. I fell head over heals in love with it. I then read the book. Loved that and then suprisingly I was going to be able to see it in New York with my school when we went on our East Coast Trip. Obession has taken over me from then on. Phantom is now my life.
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Post by balletangel on Apr 15, 2007 9:40:53 GMT -8
I was in a play once, and I heard a couple of people singing some Phantom songs. (One of the girls in the play was obsessed with broadway.) I heard them singing "Think of me" and I realy liked it, so I decided to look into this "Phantom of the Opera." Not too long after, the movie came to theatres. (It came out the day before my fourteenth birthday.) I went to see it and have been hooked ever since.
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Post by Little Giry on Apr 15, 2007 12:58:41 GMT -8
Saw the 1948 movie, liked it. Saw the 2004 movie, loved it (still do!) Read the book, loved it even more, watched the silent Phantom, laughed my butt off but thoroughly enjoyed watching it. I saw both the Charles Dance and Robert Englund movies and hold them in extreme disfavor. LOVE LOVE LOVE the stage (GARY MAUER! *girly squee!*) Hate the Kay novel, I hate all the Phantom novels except for Leroux's actually. Uhmmmm...yep, that's it! ;D
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Post by midnightangel on Jun 8, 2007 17:14:56 GMT -8
I was a late comer into the Phantom scene, admittedly. My friends were all OBSESSED with it because band was playing it. I am not in band and wasn't then. I listened politely, but was, frankly uninterested. I listened to them play at the band concert and it was beautiful, but it wasn't what got me. In choir, a trio of girls sang Phantom songs and I asked my aunt about Phantom of the Opera. She said she'd seen it on Broadway and hadn't been able to hear it so well, so she didn't know what she could tell me. *sigh* And then a friend's mother told my mother something about the '04 movie being borderline "R" with the PoNR scene, so....
That summer, I saw the movie at a friend's house and another friend's running commentary angered me. I couldn't focus because she kept stopping the movie to translate, like I couldn't understand sung dialouge (I was in choir at the time and this just irked me). But "All I Ask of You" stuck in my head (said friend was in the bathroom during this scene) and I wanted to see it again. I mentioned it to my father, who promptly bought me the DVD as opposed to renting it and I watched it. Loved it.
Time passed. One rainy day this past Decemeber, I forced my younger sister to watch POTO with me again. Somehow, it was more enchanting this time around and I soon bought her the Leroux novel (her birthday was coming up). She read it, loaned it to me. and I read it for a Book Report project. I loved it! I was hooked on Phantom and after a while of searching, I got ahold of Susan Kay's "Phantom" and read it twice. Loved it! I'm now a rabid Phan.
Oh, and the touring cast is coming to my city this coming season and my parents promised we could go! I'm so pysched and can't wait until 08!
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