Just a collection of unintentionally funny moments, featuring: 1) David Arnsperger and his smooth af caress 2) Cooper Grodin going "ew get off me" 3) Cooper Grodin going "don't trip don't trip don't trip" 4) John Cudia falling off the organ 5) John Cudia whipping a poor partygoer 6) Peter Joback doing his best impression of "Hello, My Baby" 7) Peter Karrie's self-caress 8) Michael Crawford throwing a tantrum 9) Thiago Arancam thinking he's going to get laid

Credit for most of the gifs goes to @glassprism and @wheel-of-fish

I love the Brazilian Portuguese translation of PotO 🥹

"All I Ask of You (Reprise)" is so much heartbreaking, because Erik says "ele só te ama pois te ouviu cantar", which translates to "he only loves you because he heard you sing", holy fuck it's so accurate! Raoul didn't recognize Christine until she sang, while Erik tought her how to sing and saw a much deeper and more meaningful person aside from her singing talent. And still on the AIAOY Reprise, he finishes saying "tudo o que o Fantasma só pediu", which translates to "all that the Phantom only asked", much more desparate and pleading rather than demanding.

My favorite line comes from Christine during "The Final Lair", she says "não estás mais só" which translates to "you are not alone anymore" 🥹 she WANTED TO GO WITH HIM!! SHE WANTED TO SHOW HIM LOVE AND AFFECTION AAAAAAAA, she was there for him!! But he decided it was better to apart their ways, even though he loved her more than anything... i'll cry. I'm proud of my Brazil 🥹🇧🇷❤️

Thiago Arancam (Erik) and Lina Mendes (Christine) ☝🏼

Thiago Arancam, Lina Mendes, and the 2018 Brazilian Revival Company

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O Fantasma da Ópera ( The Phantom of The Opera ), Brasil, 2018 - 2019 Highlights of Giulia Nadriz (Alternate Christine Daaé), ft.Thiago Arancam (The Phantom), Fred Silveira (Raoul de Chagny) and Company

Hello! I'm in Brazil I watched on youtube a decent bootleg of the poto brazil production from 2005 and it made me so nostalgic. I was 8 years old back then. I kinda remember seeing something about it on television it was right after the movie which is very popular here. I don't care about the movie (love Patrick Wilson though) but the production was very nice and a gorgeous cast, which it surprised me because I dislike the brazilian revival they did some years ago, did not like the cast at all. I know Saulo Vasconcelos and had no idea he played the phantom I know him from his work on tv. I think he was a good phantom but I do wish they had also cast an actor who look and sound like John Owen-Jones, I love him sm it hurts. Sadly I don't think there is someone like him here, at least I haven't see it. I loved Nando Prado as Raoul, very charming and he has "the Raoul look". He is pretty famous here he has done many musicals as well his work on television which it's also where I first saw him. I feel like the early 2000s were the last golden age of poto, I dislike the way things went since ALW came up with lnd and then the 25th anniversary. I wish I could travel to United Kingdom to see JOJ in concert I'd cry a lot and probably pass out... he's huge and I'm pretty short girl 😭

I'm sorry, I would answer but I got hung up on this specific part:

I know Saulo Vasconcelos and had no idea he played the phantom... I think he was a good phantom but I do wish they had also cast an actor who look and sound like John Owen-Jones

I'm sorry, this Saulo Vasconcelos? This dude? Saulo "most expressive hands" Vasconcelos? And you want him replaced by JOJ or, barring unavailability, a JOJ-clone?

Where's @wheel-of-fish, these are fightin' words.

THE PHANTOM'S CLOAK, THOUGH!!

Peter Jöback, Stockholm

Jonathan Roxmouth, World Tour

Claire Lyon and Brad Little, World Tour

Claire Lyon and Brad Little, World Tour

David Thaxton, West End

Hugh Panaro, Broadway

Claire Lyon and Brad Little, World Tour

Samantha Hill and Hugh Panaro, Broadway

Colm Wilkinson, Toronto

Thiago Arancam, Sao Paulo

Killian Donnelly, West End revival

Kim Ju Taek, Daegu or Seoul

Phantom, recreated

Unknown "Bacchus" and Evgeny Zaytsev (Moscow), recreated by Gustavo Ceccarelli and Henrique Moretzsohn (São Paulo revival)

Meg Chilcott and Maree Johnson (Australia), recreated by Ali Ewoldt and Maree Johnson (Broadway)

Lorraine Chappel and Sarah Ryan (UK tour), recreated by Sara Esty and Emilie Kouatchou (Broadway) AND Ellie Young and Holly Anne Hull (West End revival)

Jonathan Roxmouth and Meghan Picerno (Third World Tour), recreated by Thiago Arancam and Daruã Góes (São Paulo revival)

Rob Pitcher and Elizabeth Welch (Oberhausen), recreated by Paul Ettore Tabone and Kelly Mathieson (West End)

Saturday, March 25, 2023 • 9 p.m. EST: Thiago Arancam, Giulia Nadruz & Fred Silveira (São Paulo 2019)

OK, so. I have realized that in protecting you all from Thiago, I have also robbed you of a basis for comparison when we talk about actors Trying vs. Not Trying. And while I try not to disparage actors, Thiago seemed like he genuinely Did Not Care (i.e., had the emotional range of a potato), and it makes for a unique viewing experience.

That said, the Christines in São Paulo were phenomenal. Giulia is one of my all-time favorites! And Fred is an older Raoul, which is interesting and definitely appeals to a certain subset of phans (you know who you are).

As always, stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ! Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.

who played the phantom worst in your opinion? :D

It sounds so mean calling someone the worst, but I was pretty harsh on Killian earlier, so… 🤣

Some Phantoms that I didn’t personally enjoy would be Peter Joback, Cooper Grodin, Jason Mills, Thiago Arancam, and Tim Martin Gleason. Most of these guys were just super boring, or in the case of Peter and Cooper, their voices were… not great. At least in my opinion.

No dia 10 de novembro (sexta-feira), a partir das 19 horas, o G10 Favelas - Bloco de Líderes e Empreendedores de Impacto Social das Favelas, realizará mais uma edição do Jantar Solidário, que promete emocionar todos os presentes. A abertura do evento, será em grande estilo na voz do tenor Thiago Arancam, acompanhado pela Orquestra Filarmônica de Paraisópolis, sob a batuta do Maestro Paulo Rydkewski. O jantar contará com a presença de empresários, apoiadores do G10 Favelas, líderes comunitários de todo o Brasil e celebridades como: Fernanda Motta, Lucas Guimarães, Carlos Tramontina, Glória Vanique, Fábio Turci, Amanda Françozo, Gardênia Cavalcanti, Joyce Ribeiro da Silva, Maria Cândida e Fabio Arruda. A noite especial acontecerá no Palácio Tangará, na capital paulista, com objetivo de arrecadar recursos que serão destinados ao combate à fome e apoiar os projetos de impacto social que fazem parte do G10 Favelas, que já distribuiu mais de 4 milhões de cestas básicas, nos 26 estados brasileiros e Distrito Federal, desde o início da pandemia da Covid-19. Nos últimos três anos, o bloco de empreendedores sociais vem trabalhando na luta pelo combate à fome com ações humanitárias que atendem famílias em situação de vulnerabilidade, como as marmitas solidárias, que são entregues diariamente à população local, e que para serem produzidas, dependem das doações para a compra dos insumos. “Percebemos uma queda nas doações, o que prejudica exponencialmente nossas entregas. Com esse evento queremos mostrar que a fome ainda é uma grande batalha que enfrentamos, pois as filas de pessoas que buscam alimento só têm aumentado. Toda arrecadação no Jantar Solidário muda bastante este cenário”, relata Gilson Rodrígues, presidente do G10 Favelas. Serviço Evento: Jantar Solidário - G10 Favelas Local: Palácio Tangará Data: 10/11/2023 (sexta-feira) Horário: 19h Endereço: Rua Deputado Laércio Corte 1501, Panamby – SP - Cep 05706-290 www.g10favelas.com.br

Socks' Ultimate Phantoms list

Phantoms

Franc D'Ambrosio - Yes. Brings all the sad noises and I am here for it. Nice voice. Excellent acting and facial expressions. Very expressive eyes. Is a cinnamon roll irl. Gary Mauer - Best voice ever. 10/10 would believe this man was an angel. Greg Mills - Looks like a cinnamon roll, will kill you. I never thought tongue action could be sexy but here we are. Ted Keegan - Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll. Surprisingly sexy. Killian Donnelly - Looks like a cinnamon roll. I can't explain why I like him, but I do. Christopher Carl - I've only heard audio of him but I like him based on how he sobbed on the golden angel. Jeremy Stolle - Nice voice. Acting is too subtle. Peter Karrie - I love how he takes certain notes up a step, just to show that he can. Slightly nasally, but tolerable. Davis Gaines - tbh all I remember really is him slowly rocking his hips while he was sprawled on the portcullis and I now judge all phantoms on a metric of how good their pants look. 9/10 his pants. Peter Joback - I absolutely hated him when he sang in English. I liked him a little better when he did the show in Swedish. James Hume - Unmemorable. Michael Nicholson - Excellent acting choices. Was thinking about him for two weeks after watching. I just really like the production in German, okay? Earl Carpenter - Better in his earlier runs. Good acting choices. Simon Pryce - Very deep voice. Stands nicely. Scott Davies - He looked like fun and I wanted to like him. Noped out of that one pretty quick. Too much vibrato. Anthony Crivello - From the Vegas boot! I actually don't remember too much about him. But I know I liked the boot! Ben Crawford - Tended to have really weird pronunciation toward the end of his run. He was decent when I saw him right after the Broadway reopening. The most remarkable thing he did was to belly slide all the way across the stage during STYDI. Other than that, I recall nothing specific. Thiago Arancam - Remarkable only in the fact that he is boring. Uwe Kroger - The boob-stroking guy. I remember nothing else. Cooper Grodin - Entertaining in the fact that his acting is so wooden. Nice voice when he's not doing blocking at the same time. Good pants. It helps that he never skips leg day. Laird Mackintosh - I think he was good? I honestly don't remember. Geronimo Rauch - I remember I liked him! Norm Lewis - Nice voice, a little boring. Sorry Norm. John Owen-Jones - Hands. Michael Crawford - Absolutely not. I do not understand what anyone sees in him. His voice sounds like it's about to snap any second, and he is very unsexy. David Shannon - Yes. Absolutely yes. Excellent acting choices and nice voice. Does sad very well. Deserved better. Saulo Vasconcelos - All I can recall is @wheel-of-fish spamming the chat with "hands" all night and that's all anyone really needs to know about his Phantom. Ethan Freeman - Looks like a goddamn stick insect during Final Lair and I am here for it. Looks like Tony Shaloub. Bronson Norris Murphy - Technically only was the Phantom in Love Never Dies. RIP. He deserved better. Anyway. His voice is a little deeper than Franc's or Gary's. I wish he had gotten a chance to play the Phantom in POTO proper. I am very curious as to how he would have played it. Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a burnt cinnamon roll. Ramin Karimloo - He was my intro to POTO on stage. I liked his performance enough that I went looking for more clips of the musical, and found the Saturday Streams. Eiji Akutagawa - Ah yes. The self-groping Phantom. That's all I can remember about him. Josh Piterman - Does sad very well. Gerard Butler - My first-first Phantom. I still like him. There's something about his voice that I do actually like, and it annoys me very much when people go "he can't sing" yes he can, everyone has the ability to sing. Just shut up and let me enjoy what I like in peace. Hugh Panaro - Great voice, excellent acting. Funny. Fun to watch. Reminds me of Franc, in that they're both innocent/childish. Hugh is more childish and angry. Looks like he could kill you, and he might, it depends on his mood.

PART TWO

📸 Marcos Mesquita

Which phantoms really cry during the final lair? Michael Crawford said that he did cry every night.

What happened to Eiji Akutagawa in PONR? I mean Japanese people are so restrained, so reserved. I got shocked (in a good way). LOL

Do you know if there any video bootlegs that exist of Ian Jon Bourg in Phantom World Tour? I’ve only seen a couple of short clips from 2019 and would love to get to see a whole boot if one exists!

Why folks say that Cooper Grodin is your husband? Sorry for the question. I'm new here.

To take it in order:

Are you asking for "stage crying" or "real crying"? I'd assume most Phantoms stage cry at some point in the show, since the blocking practically requires that they fall on their knees and start sobbing into the veil. Which Phantoms cross over into "real crying" is much harder to say or to tell from "stage crying", though I'd hope if they are crying for realsies that they do so in an emotionally healthy way, especially since they're expected to come out smiling and cheerful at the curtain call five minutes later.

Eiji Akutagawa is just built different, I guess. But it's worth noting that no culture is a monolith, and even if there are certain traits associated with them, that does not mean every person in that culture is expected to, or should, act in that way.

I've seen some clips that look to be from a full-ish boot (these are the ones usually posted on the Stage Enterpainment Instagram). But the only one I know of that's been released is a blindshot, highlights video of Bourg with Meghan Picerno; however, it's only available through the master, who I'm not even sure is around anymore, and I think can't be listed on any site either, so it's fairly difficult to find.

Because of my constant tendency to recommend to @wheel-of-fish that she stream Cooper Grodin, as well as other luminaries like Uwe Kroger and Thiago Arancam. This eventually led a lot of my friends on Discord to theorize that I am married to Grodin and trying to promote him this way. Which I am, by the way, and we are very happy together. But the real answer as to why I recommend him is because I enjoy inflicting Pain.

I hope that helps, and welcome to the blog as well!

Hello, can you please post the specs of the Phantom's fedora? I know it varies from production to production, but maybe a version that one can get something similar from common shops and not have to have it custom made?

As such it feels like a better question for those who's done briliant Phantom cosplays - like @phantomonabudget . But I can answer with some photos from various productions!

The Phantom's fedora is a wool felt hat with a semi wide brim and tall crown which is pinched lengthwise, usually in the shape of an oval or a tear. Around the crown there is a silk rep ribbon. Here's Ramin Karimloo's West End hat (or, probably one of them, as Phantoms tend to go through several):

Some productions use steam, sprays and heat to give the hat its exact shape - it should give a sense of tilt, with the left side of the brim turning upwards. Few hats are like this when you buy them, so it must be done on store-bought hats.

Here's Ben Lewis in West End with a fedora with tilt and fairy high crown:

And Michael Crawford in West End in a very similar look, but just a bit lower in the crown:

There's also many fedoras with almost no tilt at all, or a lot more defined tilt. As an example of the latter here's Saulo Vasconcelos in Sao Paulo, Brazil:

And way more tilt in this rehearsal photo from Shizuoka, Japan:

As a contrast, a bigger and wider fedora with just a hint of a tilt in this promo photo of Osamu Takai in Japan:

And a last example: Thiago Arancam in the Sao Paulo revival, where the tilt is more in the back than in the sides, and the crease in the crown is very defined:

So the exact tilt varies both between productions and WITHIN productions. It can depend on what is most suited for the actor, how new or newly styled the fedora is, and what the costume supervisor asks for. But a bit of a tilt in the brim is the general look, and it is usually on the left side. To not forget the source, here is one of Maria Bjørnson's designs of the fedora - it shows a bit lower crown and a bit wider brim than most stage hats, and with a defined tilt:

Sometimes the fedora can be padded inside, to make the hat sit better on the head, or also to alternate the size a bit. I would guess it even makes it more comfortable to wear. Here's the inside of Ramin Karimloo's hat:

So yeah, a few of the tricks used in the stage fedoras. I hope you either find a good version to buy and work on, or a good hat maker or stylist to create you the dream hat. Best of luck!

Hi, I hope I'm not too late inviting you to the stream this week! At 9pm ET wheel-of-fish will be showing a video of the Brazilian production, with Giulia Nadruz as Christine, Fred Silviera as Raoul, and Thiago Arancam doing the bare minimum as the Phantom. I've seen Giulia before & she's excellent. I think Fernanda Muniz will be on as Meg, too. Password will be posted at 8:45 pm. (Sorry I was out shopping late last week. I should have messaged you sooner.)

sorry i missed this!!! a lot is going on! but thank you, maybe this week