Love Never Dies.....
"...and in this labyrinth, where night is blind..." I renew and reaffirm again my love for the Angel of Music. ♥
Went to the GV showing of the Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Royal Albert Hall performance last night.
Now indulge me while I Phan-geek!!!! ♥
I remembered back when I was 13 and had just changed a new piano teacher. One day she passed me the scores of Andrew Lloyd Webber's the Phantom of the Opera musical and the CDs of the original London Cast recording, told me, "let's have you play something different from all the classicals you have always been playing."; and from then on marked the start of my love affair with my dark Angel of Music - and it is a love that gets renewed with every performance of the musical I watched (4 or 5 different productions in all, in AND out of Singapore).
I lament that for all his brilliant musical/architectural/engineering genius, Erik was grossly shunned and misunderstood by the Parisian society of the late-19th Century - mankind labelled him a "freak of nature" because of his disfigurement (too bad plastic surgery wasn't available then)... and since society shunned him, he turned his back on society as well because HEY THEY WERE NOT READY FOR HIS BRILLIANCE OKAY?! He could have continued living his live in perfect merry solitude in the depths of the Paris Opera Garniar.... but, then Erik heard Christine Daae sing, and the dark Angel of Music fell in love with HIS angel of music (he calls her his protegee, but in my fangirl's opinion she's not so prodigious afterall since she failed to see beyond his face for the genius that he is; and a lonesome soul that yearns for love and social acceptance)
I was quite emotionally-charged during last night's performance, and towards the ending finales I couldn't stop crying. Ramin's awesome performance of the tragic Erik left me speechless (I was lucky to have had the chance to watch him live before) - no words could accurately describe how much I love this!!!! At the end when the full cast came on-stage for curtain call, I had almost wanted to stand up and clap as well ///>w
AND THEN, when the original London cast from the 1986 production came on-stage, when Michael Crawford (YES THE ORIGINAL PHANTOM!!!!!11!) appeared, I had to bite my lips to keep myself from SQUEALING OUT LOUD XDDDDD
....I could (AND I WILL if given the go-ahead) go on-and-on-and-on my geeky PHANgirling - yes I could probably write a scene-by-scene write-up and character analysis and stuff (yup I was a literature student before I was a psychology major with the talent for positive drug dealing >D ), but I think I'd bore non-fans to tears if I go on....
BUT!! one thing is for certain - yup! 100% - nope! 1000%! - at the ending of the musical, when the broken and "defeated" Phantom (before disappearing into the darkness, leaving his signature half-mask for Meg Giry to find) sang: "You alone can make my song take flight - it's over now the music of the night..." In my heart I was screaming "It's NOT over! IT'D NEVER BE OVER!!!!! T_T "
Ohhh, Erik ♥
Went to the GV showing of the Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Royal Albert Hall performance last night.
Now indulge me while I Phan-geek!!!! ♥
I remembered back when I was 13 and had just changed a new piano teacher. One day she passed me the scores of Andrew Lloyd Webber's the Phantom of the Opera musical and the CDs of the original London Cast recording, told me, "let's have you play something different from all the classicals you have always been playing."; and from then on marked the start of my love affair with my dark Angel of Music - and it is a love that gets renewed with every performance of the musical I watched (4 or 5 different productions in all, in AND out of Singapore).
I lament that for all his brilliant musical/architectural/engineering genius, Erik was grossly shunned and misunderstood by the Parisian society of the late-19th Century - mankind labelled him a "freak of nature" because of his disfigurement (too bad plastic surgery wasn't available then)... and since society shunned him, he turned his back on society as well because HEY THEY WERE NOT READY FOR HIS BRILLIANCE OKAY?! He could have continued living his live in perfect merry solitude in the depths of the Paris Opera Garniar.... but, then Erik heard Christine Daae sing, and the dark Angel of Music fell in love with HIS angel of music (he calls her his protegee, but in my fangirl's opinion she's not so prodigious afterall since she failed to see beyond his face for the genius that he is; and a lonesome soul that yearns for love and social acceptance)
I was quite emotionally-charged during last night's performance, and towards the ending finales I couldn't stop crying. Ramin's awesome performance of the tragic Erik left me speechless (I was lucky to have had the chance to watch him live before) - no words could accurately describe how much I love this!!!! At the end when the full cast came on-stage for curtain call, I had almost wanted to stand up and clap as well ///>w
AND THEN, when the original London cast from the 1986 production came on-stage, when Michael Crawford (YES THE ORIGINAL PHANTOM!!!!!11!) appeared, I had to bite my lips to keep myself from SQUEALING OUT LOUD XDDDDD
....I could (AND I WILL if given the go-ahead) go on-and-on-and-on my geeky PHANgirling - yes I could probably write a scene-by-scene write-up and character analysis and stuff (yup I was a literature student before I was a psychology major with the talent for positive drug dealing >D ), but I think I'd bore non-fans to tears if I go on....
BUT!! one thing is for certain - yup! 100% - nope! 1000%! - at the ending of the musical, when the broken and "defeated" Phantom (before disappearing into the darkness, leaving his signature half-mask for Meg Giry to find) sang: "You alone can make my song take flight - it's over now the music of the night..." In my heart I was screaming "It's NOT over! IT'D NEVER BE OVER!!!!! T_T "
Ohhh, Erik ♥