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marleneoftheopera · 20 hours
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Navina Heyne will play Christine in a production of Liebe Stirbt Nie (Love Never Dies) at the Theater Lüneburg during their 2024/2025 season.
Schedule:
Saturday, March 1st – 8:00 p.m. (premiere)
Friday, March 7th – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 19th – 8:00 p.m.
Friday, March 28th – 8:00 p.m.
Friday, May 2nd – 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 8th – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 18th – 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 25th – 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 1st – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 14th – 8:00 p.m.
She will be performing opposite her husband, Thomas Borchert, who will perform the role of the Phantom, reprising the role he previously played in Phantom of the Opera.
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Pictures: Navina Heyne’s Facebook and Instagram
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marleneoftheopera · 2 days
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JORDAN DONICA JAVERT
JOHN RIDDLE JVJ
WE USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THESE!! MUNY just announced their summer Les Miserables we WON!!!!!
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marleneoftheopera · 2 days
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hi there, can u do a photoset of the backstage curtain scene after TOM in different productions?
Do you mean the bow Christine takes after TOM, with the turned perspective? Sure! Here's some favourites.
Emilie Kouatchou, Broadway:
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Samantha Hill, Broadway:
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Sierra Boggess, Broadway:
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Trista Moldovan, Broadway or US Tour:
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Harriet Jones, West End:
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Lina Mendes, Sao Paulo:
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Sarah Brightman, original West End:
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Valerie Link, Hamburg:
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Holly-Anne Hull, UK Tour revival:
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marleneoftheopera · 2 days
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"God give me courage to show you, you are not alone."
Jon Robyns (The Phantom of the Opera) and Lily Kerhoas (Christine Daae), in The Phantom of the Opera, West End, January 2024.
@or-what-you-will and @hyperfixatra, master (you can get it here)
It's fine, this sequence doesn't live rent-free in my head or anything
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marleneoftheopera · 3 days
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Load in for the tour in 1994
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marleneoftheopera · 3 days
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Lina Mendes & Fred Silveira | Sao Paulo 2019
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marleneoftheopera · 3 days
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The rest of the World Tour company has been announced!
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marleneoftheopera · 3 days
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IAN IS BACK IN THE WORLD TOUR GUYS
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marleneoftheopera · 4 days
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藤原遥香 (Haruka Fujiwara) as Christine
Pictures: Akihito Abe, Shiki Theater Company
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marleneoftheopera · 4 days
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海沼千明 (Chiaki Kainuma) as Christine
Pictures: Akihito Abe, Shiki Theater Company
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marleneoftheopera · 4 days
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shoutout to chumisa for slowing that london orchestra down🙌
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marleneoftheopera · 5 days
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marleneoftheopera · 6 days
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From the cover run in Vienna!
Robert Meyer (Phantom), Lillian Maandag (Christine), Lilly Rottensteiner (Carlotta), Eva Maria Bender (Giry), Timo Verse (Andre), Julia Hubner (Meg).
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marleneoftheopera · 7 days
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Robert Meyer, Lilian Maandag, and Julia Hubner have made their Phantom, Christine, and Meg debuts, respectively!
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marleneoftheopera · 7 days
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We need to talk, Pham. Stop shaming Christine Daaé.
I have seen this behavior consistently for the 30+ years I have been a Phan. What's worse is that I see A LOT of it from grown women. I see posts calling her foolish for leaving Erik. Slut shaming her or calling her a gold digger. Calling her stupid, weak, or unworthy because a "real woman" (presumably the women posting these absurd things🙄) would have loved him better and been worthy of his awesome talent and capacity for love. 😳🤮
It's disturbing, disheartening, and disgusting. And it needs to stop.
First off, none of these characters are real, so perhaps let's take things a little less seriously in general. It's a fictional story. I get it: we all love it, and maybe we all identify with Erik/The Phantom to some degree. Regardless of the version of the story, if the actors or authors do their job well, we *should* feel pity and compassion for him. But feeling compassion and completely ignoring the character's dangerous and abusive behavior are two very different things. It has the potential for some severe consequences in the real world.
By shaming Christine for leaving Erik at the end, you are potentially telling young people that staying in abusive relationships is the right thing. You make them think that if their significant other is talented, misunderstood, been abused themselves etc, then they should stay and love them into a healthy relationship. That if they just love their abusive SO harder, sacrifice themselves a little more or for a little longer, or keep putting that person's needs above their own, that the relationship will suddenly become this wonderful, euphoric experience. It won't. As a survivor of longtime abusive myself, I can tell you from experience: it doesn't happen that way.
Celebrate healthy relationships and enforcing healthy boundaries. Stop shaming Christine for fighting for and winning her life and saving the man she loves.
I am sick of members of this Phandom idolizing the Phantom and ignoring his behavior to justify their blind adoration. Erik is an abusive and dangerous character, and extremely toxic. He lies to and manipulates Christine using her trauma from her deceased father. He kidnaps her, multiple times. Threatens her and her colleagues. He xtorts hundreds of thousands from the business managers. He endangers dozen of people with the chandelier crash, and effectively holds hundreds hostage for months or years at a time.
Oh..and he murders. Probably been at that for awhile so we can assume it's far more than the two we see in the show.
And yet, I see some mature phans out here completely ignoring all those things and still shaming Christine for leaving him. WHT? Because he's "sexy" (author's note: PLEASE re-read Leroux. Please). And he's talented. And has so much love to give. And is misunderstood. And society was terrible to him...so it's all fine. 😳🤮 She should have just stayed and loved him like he deserves to be loved. 🙄
Recently I saw a post shaming Christine and the justification was that Raoul was so much worse. He isn't. Is he a perfect character? No, not at all. Does he make mistakes and try to use Christine? In some versions, yes. Does he run around extorting, manipulating, threatening, and killing others? Also no.
And don't ever use LND!Raoul's character assassination as some kind of justification, because he's still the most sane, normal human being in that show, and Erik is still 1,000 times worse than Raoul in LND. Also, using LND as justification for anything just show's how weak and uninformed that opinion is.
"Hurt people hurt people." Ever heard that phrase? Abused people sometimes abuse others, especially if they haven't done the work to heal themselves. Their previous abuse does NOT entitle them to abuse others. That is always a deliberate choice, and those choices have consequences. The dangerous, disgusting rhetoric I see in the Phantom community basically excuses toxic behavior because Erik was previously abused, and nothing is his fault. That is simply not true, my guy. Those who abused me were previously abused. Didn't make my abuse hurt any less. I made the choice to do the work so that the abuse stopped with me. Previous trauma is a reason for the behavior, but it is NEVER an excuse.
...And don't let the fact the dude can sing or that he's a snappy dresser blind you to his toxicity.
We talk a lot more these days about trauma, toxicity, and self care. And yet, as a community, we still shame the character of Christine Daaé for doing the healthy, correct thing. The ONLY thing. And in doing so, we set a disturbing precedent for our young or vulnerable Phans who now might think that staying in toxic relationships in the real world is okay.
Do better, Phandom.
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marleneoftheopera · 7 days
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Saw this format and had to make one for cherik and merik lmao
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marleneoftheopera · 7 days
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Some more photos she’s shared!
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Jessica Hackett as Carlotta! She is normally u/s (for both Carlotta and Christine), but is on for the final week in Riyadh while Lara Martins is away.
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