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esmiephan · 1 year

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It's been a long time I wanted to watch the 1991 musical, directed by Darwin Knight, produced by Lynda Bryant, Abe Hirschfeld, Samantha Klein, Karen Poindexter and Knight himself, with David Stellar as Erik and Elizabeth Walsh as Christine. Well, I watched it yesterday, and... i am so, but SO disappointed.

So summarizing, Erik is the "spirit of music" (yeah, no angel at all) that tought Christine's voice during 10 years. As we know, he is the Opera Ghost, he threatens the managers, ask money, ask box 5, and stalks Christine. He bothers that arrogant bitch-y Carlotta and wants Christine to sing in the Opera House. Fine. It's accurate to the novel at some point, we have Christine fainting and going to Erik's lair, where he demands her to sing his music Don Juan Triumphant. Now, this is the part where Knight and his company proved that they misunderstood everything. Erik is obssessed with "beauty", "alternative art" and his own music, he never ONCE say "Christine, I love you, stay with me!". No, he just wants her voice. That's all. He is obssessed with his music and wants her to sing.

Wow... ok, what bothers me the most is that they missed Don Juan's whole point. Christine says the Don Juan of the legend "was an outcast for his passion", while Erik defends him saying he was a man ahead of his time, and everyone wrongly fear their passion and blablabla...

Friend. Don Juan was an evil selfish bitch-y man that seduced and decieved young women. He mocked one of his victim's dead father, Don Giovanni, but then he is dragged to hell by Giovanni's spirit. This is what happened. There is no fucking outcast or passion about it. The Leroux Erik NEVER defended Don Juan's shit villain-y, actually, he wrote a completely different Don Juan. What the fuck this version wanted to mean?

Erik's purpose is flat and empty in this version. He is obssessed with beauty, and his music, and Christine's voice... that's all. Really. WHERE IS HIS PASSION AND LOVE FOR CHRISINE?? WHERE?

And the worst of all. Christine unmasks Erik (he has a good deformity btw) and he says "oh you will reject me as everyone else did". Ok, so we will have an explanation about his past and how much he suffered because of his face?

No. Absolutely nothing. No tragic past, no importance for his deformity. If he wasn't deformed, it wouldn't change absolutely nothing in the story.

Let's keep it going. Christine attemps the masked ball, without her black dominó as in most of the adaptations, she dances with Raoul and decides to tell her story for him in the rooftop. Erik has no Red Death, kills Joseph Buquet (who was a drunk murderous stalker creep) and fucks Carlotta's throat when she tries to sing. He even dances with Carlotta for some reason. Christine and Raoul aren't really friends, they have nothing but one memory of Raoul getting her scarp, something that happened about 20 years ago. They didn't even know their names, but for some reason they felt in love. Erik kidnaps Christine and forces her to sing his music. How dramatic.

Well, the Daroga appears (WOW, AMAZING, ISN'T IT?) and helps Raoul to rescue Christine. Then we have the worst ending possible, really, Erik peacefully lets Christine chose either she wants him or the viscount. She simply chooses Raoul and leaves.

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This scene is supposed to be beautiful and dramatic because Christine touches Erik's hand and he's all "aawwnnnoowwn my hand", but. That makes no sense. He wanted his music. Not love. He touched Christine and Carlotta before, wtf. Him and Daroga have a little frenemy momment, which is useless because nothing about they or their past is explained... and then... Erik finds a young ballerina and presents himself as the Spirit of Music. Again, doing the same shit he did to Christine.

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I hated how they didn't explain about Erik's horrible past. His deformed face is equal to NOTHING here. This Erik is not, in anyway, the same character we see in the novel. Really, even the ALW musical that made him more manipulative than he was understood the story better than this musical, oh but much better. This Erik lost completely his original essence. He seems to be obssessed over his own music than in love with Christine, when it's completely the opposite in the novel – he didn't want Christine to sing his music, he wanted her to follow her dream and to marry her. He wanted her love and company, that's all. In here, he's just a flat "villain" that doesn't even threat the Opera House as a whole. Ok, he killed Buquet, but who cares to that drunk murderous nobody? Erik is supposed to be a tragic anti-hero whose redemption would be reached after he experienced love for the first time. But here, he seems to be just a madman obssessed with "beauty" and "his music" and now he is decieving another girl. Where is the man who was abused by everyone because of his face, and is now craved for love and lost in despair? He's gone, replaced by a weird mad "genius".

Christine is so petty and uninteresting, really. The kind, brave and independent woman we have in the novel is gone too.

Raoul is probably the worst part here. He is supposed to be a childhood friend that she would rememberer, and not a random nobody who simply brought her scarp to her about 20 years later. He is... _nothing_ here. Like, literally NOTHING. Where is the jeaously, insane, childish and stalker viscount who purchased and humiliated Christine? In here, they are two strangers who felt in love because... yes?

A lot of people are happy because of the Daroga, but he's completely useless and forgotable here. He has nothing to do with this version.

Madame Giry is so random and nonsense, she seems to know about something the whole show, but in the end... well, again, it was nothing. I loved Carlotta, that ballerina song, the managers and some of Erik's aspects (like the make-up), though. David Staller and Elizabeth Walsh were amazing. I'm glad they casted a black ator to play the Daroga too. But as a whole, it's AT BEST a 6.5/10 adaptation.

#the phantom of the opera #phantom musical #the phantom of the opera 1991 #1991 TV show #elizabeth walsh #david staller

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britishchick09 · 1 year

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i rewrote rewrite eristine's first encounter and snuck a beatles reference in there! ;)

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#it's a beatles reference that has a poto reference! ;)#eyyy #'angel's mask' inspired me to change the very first eristine scene #he was a bit strict in the original! :o #it reminds me of his prototype drawing #now he's kinder which is his current self! :)#in the original he says he's whatever christine wants him to be (staller reference!) and she picks the angel of music #in the original christine guesses that he's the opera ghost and he says 'i'm whatever you want me to be' so she picks the angel of music #that david staller reference is no more! :o #now mr. e is even more of a mystery for a bit ;)#he doesn't say anything about who he is and she thinks he's the angel... but the next day she's shocked when he says he's the og! :o #turns out eerie ghosts are capable of kindness! ;)#i noticed that later on christine focuses on the plays to keep her nerves from showing so that's the first thing he teaches her #'relax... take a deep breath... and focus on the music' :)#poto rewritten

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You've been in the phandom and on tumblr for a while and i've always been curious as to if you have any takes on how it's changed over the years? or perhaps just the overall attitude towards trading has changed? if at all?

I think the changes in attitudes in the phandom and the changes in attitudes towards trading are two separate things (trading overlaps with multiple musicals and all while also having it's own separate shifts), so I'm just going to stick with changes in the phandom!

I will also note that I've only been in the phandom since around 2010, which might seem long to some but doesn't to me, because I know people who have been around at least a decade longer than that. I should also say that even though I interact with the phandom on multiple platforms, I'm not everywhere and I can't read, you know, every forum thread or every post on Tumblr. As such, there will be thinks that I'll miss, as I can only speak to what I personally witnessed on the platforms I was engaged in, because that's what I know best!

With all that said, I'm going to split this into four parts.

Attitudes towards characters. I talked about this to some extent in a recent ask about the role of Christine, but in a general sense, there's been a shift towards appreciating Christine, Raoul, the Persian, Carlotta, and other supporting characters, or at the very least, taking a more complex view of them. This also applies to Erik to a large extent, and I've also seen a trend of seeing him as less the seductive, commanding figure and more love towards him as, I dunno, a weird sewer man. Honestly I could probably devote entire asks to each of these, but suffice to say, way more love for characters other than Erik.

Attitudes towards ships and fic. I put these two together because they're so complementary, though it also ties into the above attitudes towards characters. I think it's safe to say that, just like Erik used to be the most popular character, Erik/Christine was also the most popular ship. But I've definitely seen a large swelling of love for the other ships in the last decade or so: Raoul/Christine of course, but also things like Pharoga (the Persian and the Phantom) and Firdre (Firmin/Andre), Meg/Christine or Carlotta/Christine, and many a crack ship such as Rerik (Raoul/Erik) or Erik/Mirror Bride, Erik/Therapy, or Raoul/Madame Giry (though maybe this is just from one place). OCs (Original Characters) are much more in vogue as well and I feel like people are more willing to accept ships with OCs without deriding them as Mary Sues or author wish fulfillment and what-not. I think E/C will always be the most popular ship but people are much more willing to say that they ship something that's not E/C, or even to say they don't ship it, and to write non-E/C fic without worrying about getting blasted.

Attitudes towards adaptations. Going to be honest, what prompted this was me thinking about the seismic shift in perspective towards Susan Kay's Phantom, namely that it went from "This is better than Leroux!" to "Yikes". But that's only one example of a general pattern of appreciation for other versions besides the ALW musical - Leroux for sure, especially as people start to figure out the differences, sometimes major, between translations, but also towards, say, the Yeston/Kopit musical, the David Staller musical, other film adaptations, even Love Never Dies (which I think people sort of look upon now with a fond, "Oh you, you silly trashfire musical, I love you"). In short, more love for other versions.

Social justice issues. Lastly, I think the phandom has really grown more aware of various issues within and without Phantom and its adaptations. There's a lot to cover, but just to hit a few major changes, I'd say: more discussion about the manipulation, toxicity, and abuse in Erik and Christine's relationship, much more discussion about grooming with regards to aspects of the 2004 movie, more support for racial inclusiveness in show casts as well as where adaptations tend to go wrong (see the gollywog in the ALW musical, the constant erasure of the Persian, Islamophobia and anti-Romani sentiments in various adaptations, etc.), a lot more open discussion of mental illness, ableism, and neurodiversity when it comes to various characters, discussions of characters being LGBT, and lots more. I think a lot of these things were either not discussed or just dismissed in the years before so it's really cool to see people being far more open about all this.

And there's lots, lots more I could talk about, but I'll leave it at those four major categories! Hopefully it gives you at least a broad overview of the evolution of the phandom in the last decade or so!

#GP gets asks #anonymous

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behindthemirrorofmusic · 7 months

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David Staller in The Phantom of the Opera 1991 a musical by Lawrence Rosen and Paul Schierhorn, directed by Darwin Knight

#phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera

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cdaae · 7 months

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Why Am I Like This- Phantom Collector Edition

I’m a completionist and an obsessive so I need all the different versions of a thing so here’s a list of where I’m at right now. I wish I could say that I was anywhere near done but there’s always more phantom stuff to collect

Books

Gaston Leroux x51(This includes all 6 English translations, 8 different languages, and three levels of French)

Gaston Leroux signed by Broadway Cast

The Underground’s of the Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Bathtub

Night of the Phantom

Embrace the Night

Lessons from the Phantom of the Opera

Song of a Maiden

Madrigal

Phantom

Unmasqued

Phantom of Manhattan

Ruinsong

Roseblood

Beyond the Masque

Chanson de L’Ange

Sing Me Forgotten

The Angel of the Opera

The Phoenix of the Opera

The Phantom’s Opera

The Phantom of Paris

The Phantom’s Apprentice

Where Dreams Descend

The Phantom Cat of the Opera

Phantom Pop Up Book

George Perry’s Complete Phantom of the Opera

Phantoms of the Opera

The Trap Door Maker

Phantom Graphic Novel x2

The Phantom Cooks

2004 Companion

Geronimo Stilton

Thea Stilton

My Phantom

Phantoms in the Night

Phantom of Pemberly

Phantom of the Auditorium

Behind the Phantom’s Mask

The Phantom Returns

Phantom erotica

Book cassette

Souvenir edition OLC

Emoji of the opera

Phantom 2020

Phantom Phantasia

Songbird

The Phantom’s Lullaby

Phantom of the Little Russian Theatre

Masked Love

Treasures of Egypt

Victory

Venetian Romance

Susannah’s Secret

The Man in the Shadows

Love in the Spotlight

Let the Dream Begin

A Phantom’s Promise

Destiny’s Curse

Phantom by David Bischoff

Mini Leroux

L’Opera de Paris

Paris National Opera

Palais Garnier

Peeping Duck Gang

Out of the Darness

L’Opera De Paris Coulisses etc secrets du Garnier

Claude Rains Book

Movies/CDs/Media

Lon Chaney

Claude Rains x2

Herbert Lom x2

Phantom of Hollywood

Schell

Robert Englund

Charles Dance

David Staller

Julian Sands

2004 x17 (English x2, French x3 Germanx2, Greek, Spanish, Italian, limited(English and German), deluxe, and Ultimate, Special, Collectors(English and French)

Angel of Music

25th Anniversary

Love Never Dies

A Monster in Paris

Phantom of the Grindhouse

Anthony Mann

Phantom of the Theatre

Unmasking the Masterpiece

Love on Safari

Faust

1987 Cartoon(dvd & VHS)

Mystery Legends Phantom Game x2

2004 digital press kit(English and French)

OLC (cassette & CD)

CDs x59

Phantom of the Paradise Record

OLC small record(wywsha&motn)

Long box cd

Long box 2004

2004 VHS

Movie/book set

Long box OLC cassettes

Karaoke cassettes

Highlight cassettes

Robert Englund VHS

For Your Consideration 2004

Book casettes

Stage Fright

Props/Signed/Similar

Love Never Dies audience gift notebook

1992 tour Auction book prop

Jerry Mitchell signed LND after party invite

Phantoms Note from BWay x2

Don Juan Music from BWay x1 1/2

Ticket to 25th Anniversary Party

Majestic Theatre Phantom Barricade Cover

Photo cards, signed x16

Signed LOBs x2

Robert Englund autograph

Laird Mackintosh autograph

BWay 29th anniversary cast gift beanie

KAV’s dressing gown shoes

Manager’s BWay newspaper prop x4

Cast board name placards x3(2 BWay one Vegas)

Reopening cookies x2

London 35th anniversary rose petals and card

Il Muto page boy stockings

OBC cast member costume gloves

Printed cast member email

Cast made calendars 2006 and 2007

Full cast signed poster with Hugh

Signed trading card

Signed Michael Crawford Face mask

Signed Crawford Article

Signed 35 Poster

Signed Mask

Scrap of Christine’s wedding dress

Scrap of phantoms suit

10th anniversary invite

Opera glasses cast gift

Magazines

24/7 Magazine featuring Crivello

NYC City Guide 2014 & 2016

TODAY featuring Vegas

What’s On Vegas

Time Out New York

German LND

Theater Week 1988

In Theater 1998

Casino Player Magazine

Fate Magazine

Broadway Spotlight

Other

Megstine notebook

Mugs x7

Cups x5

Water Bottle

Ornaments x5

Phantom harmonica

Red death figure

Lon Chaney figure

Phantom Nutcracker

Phantom and Christine Barbies

Tote bag x4

Phantom creamer tops, complete set

Postcards x6

LOBs x2

Magnet x5

Stickers x12

Phantom Cat sticker set

Chibi phantom sticker set

Angel patch

Greeting cards x2

Posters x5

Art print

Calendar

Ramin based doll

Phantom doll + Ayesha

Snerik

Pen

Mardi Gras coin

Felt Raoul and Erik

Francœur bean

Small hand painted canvas

25th Anniversary limited edition boxed set

Canada gift bag

Mexico phone card

Japanese train card x2

Trading card

Lon Chaney money

Lon Chaney stamp

Pencil

Phone case

Gift bag

Japanese posters x6

Herbert Lom ad stamp

Complete LND London draft script

Blanket

Operetta

34th Anniversary blank playbill sticker sheets

Goosebumps pen

Goosebumps magnet

Goosebumps stickers x9

Bendyfigs phantom

German postcard

Angel of Music coffee

Where Dreams Descend popcorn holder

Raoul and Christine art print

Large paper bag

1994 calendar

Ireland phone card

Movie screening invite

German something?

Frame

Vegas key card

Angel of music bear

Tea towels x2

Mask sticker

Blockbuster card

Phantom press invite

Mini 2004 scrapbook

Playing cards

Assorted Japanese 2004 film memorabilia(10 pieces)

2004 film poster and booklet

1999 ticket info

2023 newspaper clippings

Gingerbread ornament

Aussie keychain

Phantom/Christine blanket

2011 wall calendar

2012 wall calendar

2013 wall calendar

Angel ornament

Universal Erik doll

Sarah/Steve Ad

1993 calendar

2004 Mylar

1995 calendar

Italy confetti

Crawford ornament

Halloween figure

Matchbox

Soap?

Heart frame

Jewelry

Pins x11

Charm bracelet

Necklace x2

Key chains x14

Replica Ring

Hair bow x2

Think of Me hair clips

Jewelry pouch

Music Boxes

Square black jewelry music box

Il Muto

Limited Edition boat scene

Boat Scene

Phantom and Christine wedding

Porcelain signs x2

Limited edition mirror scene

Mirror scene

Mirror

Limited edition MotN

Red Death

Throne water globe

Music water globe

Phantom w/ stick water globe

Rooftop water globe

Russian egg(?)

Mirror scene water globe

Phantom w/ stick

Phantom in throne

Monkey music box

Limited edition Jack in the box

Boat scene water globe(broken globe)

Russian egg (?? Missing top)

Small music box(no music)

Universal Phantom and Christine

Phantom and Christine with Marni

Opera House

Phantom Automata

Madame Alexander Christine Doll

Broken Mirror

Erik and Christine porcelain figure

Music pedestal

Clothing

Socks

Glow in the dark boxers

Night shirt

Phantom BWay x2

Sydney Harbour shirt

Christine dressing gown VTC

Peacock dress

US tour grey shirt

Christmas Sweatshirt

Toronto shirt

Candy of the Opera

1988 mask shirt

Phantom of the Opry shirt

New York shirt

Mask sweatshirt

Ghost Red Death Shirt

35th anniversary shirt

Italy shirt

Programs/Playbills/ETC

Loose understudy slips x14

Ticket stubs x11

Newspaper clippings

Mini flyers x6

Flyers x40

Ken Hill souvenir program

2004 film souvenir program

ALW souvenir programs x49

BWAY playbills x63

Signed playbills x12

Tour playbills x20

London programs x18

YK phantom playbill

World tour playbill

Melbourne playbill

Robert Englund film souvenir program

Italy program

Sweden program

Music Books

ALW piano x3(easy, intermediate, expert)

2004 film

YK phantom

LND London

I can honestly say this may not even be everything because sometimes I forget to add new acquisitions to the list. If there’s anything on the list you wanna see pics of, I’m happy to share!

#phantom of the opera #personal #phantom #the phantom of the opera

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ancientphantom · 1 year

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I'm a regular reader of historical romance and I was reading your review of Anne Stuart's take on POTO (and giggling along, bc it's bad even by my standards even if I indulge in trash from time to time). That did make me curious though, are there any other fiction books with Meg (or a Meg/Christine combo) be the Phantom's love interest? I remember hearing about Sadie Montgomery's books a few years back but I was wondering if it was an outlier and that everything else had Christine or an OC.

I'm glad you enjoyed the review!

While the majority of Phantom lit is E/C, with R/C in second place, there is more than a little E/M kicking around out there! Here are a few off the top of my head:

The Phoenix of the Opera Series by Sadie Montgomery - you mentioned this, but it's a big one! There are seven books in this series - The Phoenix of the Opera, Out of the Darkness, The Phantom's Opera, Phantom Death, Phantom Madness, and Phantom Nightmare, all of which cover Erik's and Meg's burgeoning romantic relationship and ensuing adventures. I've only got a review of the first one (I didn't love it, but you might!), but the whole series is pretty much the top-tier E/M option out there.

The Guardian of the Opera series by Cheryl Mahoney - this is another purely E/M series, and much newer than the Montgomery ones, which came out about 20 years prior. While the first book follows the events of Leroux's novel fairly closely, just from Meg's point of view, the following two develop a romance between the Phantom and the ballet dancer.

The Angels of Music series by Louise Ann Bateman - another much newer option that starts with Leroux's story but then moves on to developing an E/M plot afterward. There are only two books in this series so far, but there may be more in the future!

Night's Melody by Drake LaMarque is an erotica that features a gender-flipped Meg named Mathieu as its main character, who is very into Christine/Christophe even before the mysterious masked man gets sexily involved (amusingly, you'd think that the infamous Unmasqued by Colette Gale would have something with all the orgies and BDSM, but while the older Giry is definitely up to sexy shenanigans, her daughter doesn't feature as prominently).

Honorable mentions:

Love Never Dies - Yes, they don't get together, but this is an example of Meg being heavily in love with the Phantom and that having a sharp effect on the plot.

The Phantom of the Opera (1990 David Staller musical) - While not in most of the plot, this musical ends with the Phantom giving up on the rescued Christine and deciding to start mentoring a young ballet dancer instead, which a lot of E/M shippers see as a call out to Meg.

In addition, there are also a LOT of books that use the Phantom story but have him target a ballerina instead of a singer; usually, the ballerina is just Christine (probably because Sarah Brightman is a ballet dancer, so the Lloyd Webber musical made Christine one, too), but some of them are ambiguous and might scratch that itch! Off the top of my head:

The Ballet of Dr. Caligari and Madder Mysteries by Reggie Oliver - this is a short story collection, but the title story is about a man who, when his ballet dancer obsession can no longer perform, becomes more and more dangerously obsessed with getting her back onstage no matter what the cost.

The Cursed Ballet by Megan Atwood - a dancer at a ballet academy is deetermined to excel in the so-called "cursed show", but the mysterious dancer boy who she meets at night seems to have something to do with it.

A Dance with Danger by Marisa Wright - a mainstream romance novel featuring a ballet dancer who loses his legs but falls in love with another ballet dancer and decides to help her.

Night Child by Ann Majors - another mainstream romance novel featuring a ballerina who was kidnapped as a child and the man who has been protecting her for her entire life.

There are definitely more, so folks who have read them, feel free to chime in down in the replies and tags!

#phantom of the opera #the phantom library #our little meg the ballet rat is all grown up

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cassiana-on-dark-side · 11 months

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Guarda "David Gilmour - Don't (from Leiber and Staller Tribute Concert 2001)" su YouTube

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Obsessed by this version... remember? This was the soundtrack of the first kiss between French Teacher!David and ArtTeacher!Reader in my High School AU... Wow, I miss them so much... 🥺

#Youtube #i love him so hard #david gilmour #cute old david #david gilmour video

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perfectlynormalvelocipede · 2 years

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Breitkirch 2 - The Saga Continues!

After the hugely successful first season, the Deutsche Fernsehen is now back with ZDF-Hitshow Breitkirch's SEASON 2 !

From the network we all know and love for producing classics of Deutsches Fernsehen like Arzt Wer and Übernatürlich:

Expect more mysteries, heartbreaking destinies, terrible secrets and the past catching up with our favourite characters in this large scale production with celebrities all over the cast - both recurring and newly joining high-profile actors, actresses and guest stars!

Welcome back to the nation's second favourite couple of detectives, right after Hubert und Staller: We return to the East Frisian Kleinstadt of Breitkirch with Julia Koschitz as Elli Müller and Christoph Maria Herbst as Alex Hartig - but wait! Why, you ask, doesn't this read Oberinspektor Hartig?

The 2nd season starts right where season 1 left off: Our protagonists know now that Josef Müller (Jürgen Vogel) killed Dani Sörensen, but will they need to prove it in court? And what did the devastating news do to the once so idyllic town of Breitkirch?

We see Elli, who has been degraded and is now a mere Verkehrspolizist, and her former boss, Bavarian police officer Alex Hartig, who due to health issues was forced to step away from active duty and is now in charge of the Jungbullen.

Next to many familiar faces, there are also lots of exciting new ones, with an A+ casting that will leave absolutely nobody disappointed:

Firstly introduced are Nora Tschirner and Markus Lanz as Klara and Leander Aschenwert - but who are they and why are they only now joining the Breitkirch community?

New cast members: Markus Lanz and Nora Tschirner as Leander and Klara Aschenwert.

More splendid new members of the cast are Senta Berger as Joseline Ritter and Barbara Becker as Scharon Bischof, two attorneys and former colleagues who have just not yet seen the last of each other - but where does their rivalry come from? And how are their respective junior barristers, Abi Tomasson and Ben Heuwald, portrayed by celebrity guest-starring comedian and blogger Hazel Brugger and former YouTube sensation Phil Laude, involved?

The courtroom team at work: Phil Laude as Ben Heuwald, Senta Berger as Joseline Ritter, Barbara Becker as Scharon Bischof and Hazel Brugger as Abi Tomasson (from left to right).

We also finally dig deeper into Alex Hartig’s background and get to know his family: Ex-wife Tess (Carolin Kebekus) and daughter Desiree (the latter being portrayed brilliantly by Lilli Schweiger)! But not only that, we also learn more about the case that left him traumatised and lead him to Breitkirch in the first place: At last, we get to unravel the mysterious case of Sandbrück!

The not-so-happy family of the detective: Christoph Maria Herbst reprising his role as policeman, but now also as a father, with Lilli Schweiger as daughter Desiree and Carolin Kebekus as Ex-wife Tess.

In Sandbrück, another small town a little further from the coast of the Wattenmeer, as we know from season 1, two girls have disappeared, 12 year old Pippa Gruber (Emma Schweiger) and her older cousin Lisa Neuberger (Luna Schweiger). But what happened to them, and why is Pippa's father Richi Gruber (Daniel Brühl) so interested in getting Alex Hartig off the case? And what does his Ex-wife Kati (Jessica Schwarz) have to say about it? Join us for season 2, and find out!

Leander Aschenwert (Markus Lanz) being confronted by really properly angry Alex Hartig.

Luna Schweiger as Lisa Neuberger on the left, Emma Schweiger as her cousin Pippa Gruber on the right.

Daniel Brühl and Jessica Schwarz as the troubled parents of Sandbrück, Richi and Kati Gruber.

All the new and old faces, left to right: Nora Tschirner, Senta Berger, Barbara Becker, Florian David Fitz (back as Reverend Paul Jacke); Julia Koschitz, Christoph Maria Herbst, Hazel Brugger, Martina Hill, Jan Josef Liefers (recurring as Bettina and Mark Sörensen); on the far right Markus Lanz, Anke Engelke and Matthias Schweighöfer, the latter two as the reporter-duo Magdi Krasskliff and Oliver Steffensen.

And again, as an exclusive preview, a couple iconic and memorable quotes from this brand new season - exclusively for you, now:

P.S.: PRO-TIPP: for enhanced entertainment, feel free to zoom in on the promo pictures...

Link to part one

#broadchurch #breitkirch #!!!!nicht verwechseln!!!#wie in staffel 1 sind alle ähnlichkeiten mit anderen produkten purer zufall!#casting production and promotion by t. schweiger industries #ich entschuldige mich bei allen im voraus #special sorry goes out to the fbi agents assigned to my google search history which is now full of til schweiger's children #and other ominous searches!#hab jetzt seeeeehr viele deutsch-promi sticker falls wer will...#casting für staffel 3 hat btw auch schon begonnen mit andrea sawatzki als trish und heiko ruprecht als jim atwood... stay tuned #alec hardy #ellie miller #former detectives club #look i'm sorry this is all the broadchurch content i can come up with atm since i cannot rewatch the bloody show #ich hoffe til schweiger verklagt mich nicht #where ma german broadchurchers at #german stuff #deutsches zeug #übernatürlich #arzt wer

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theunicornandtheraven · 2 years

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We really don't talk about how quotable/meme-able the David Staller version of Phantom of the Opera is. Because like..."How could something so perfect exist in such an imperfect world?" and "You're an architect, soldier, musician, poet---"/"SAY MUSICIAN FIRST" honestly have lived rent free in my head for years

#even my brother a known disliker of musicials had fun watching that with me

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wheel-of-fish · 1 year

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#inquiring minds want to know #phantom of the opera #polls

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Gingold Theatrical Group to Present SPEAKERS' CORNER New Play Development Workshops

Featuring: Karma Sutra Chai Tea Latte, Vigil-Aunties, There Goes The Neighborhood, and Howl From Up High.

by Chloe Rabinowitz May. 18, 2022

Gingold Theatrical Group, now in its 17th Season, is continuing its new play development with the Plays-In-Progress AEA-approved Showcases of this year's SPEAKER'S CORNER Writers Group. This season, writers Aeneas Sagar Hemphill, Divya Mangwani, Marcus Scott and Mallory Jane Weiss are developing works in response to prompts from the revolutionary activist humanitarian writings and precepts of George Bernard Shaw. These Actors Equity Association approved 29-hour workshops culminate with a presentation as an opportunity for each playwright to assess where they are with their work and to determine the next steps to be taken. These invitation-only presentations will take place at ART-NY Studios (520 8th Avenue). Space for each final presentation is extremely limited and reservations must be made, so to request the opportunity to attend any of these events please email [email protected] This year's showcases will be:

Howl From Up High

by Mallory Jane Weiss, Directed by Lily Riopelle Thursday May 19th at 6pm Purva Bedi, Tori Ernst, Jacqueline Guillen, Sarah Rose Kearns, Adam Langdon, Collin McConnell; Assistant Director, Margaret Lee

Vigil-Aunties

by Divya Mangwani, Directed by Arpita Mukherjee Friday May 20th at 7pm Anya Banerji, Aadya Bedi, Sayali Niranjan Bramhe, Rahoul Roy, Mahima Saigal, Salma Shaw, and Rita Wolf; Assistant Director, Sara Vishnev

There Goes The Neighborhood

by Marcus Scott, Directed by Dev Bondarin Friday June 3rd at 7pm Phillip Burke, Shavanna Calder, Anthony Goss, Ashley Jossell, Olivia Kinter, Monique Robinson, David Rowen, Cliff Sellers; Stage Manager Elliot J. Cohen.

Karma Sutra Chai Tea Latte

by Aeneas Hemphill, Directed by Arpita Mukherjee, Monday June 6th at 2pm Shawn, Jain, Sean Devare, Salma Shaw, Khyati Sehgal, Mahima Saigal; Stage Manager Elliot J. Cohen

"Among the many programs we've developed over the last 17 years, developing new plays with the intent to produce and publish, has always been the most ambitious dream of all of us at Gingold. While we continue to produce our annual full off-Broadway productions of plays by George Bernard Shaw, we plan to add at least one new play to our schedule to share with our devoted patrons," said David Staller. Named after the corner of London's Hyde Park where George Bernard Shaw and other political speakers have delivered speeches since 1855, GTG's SPEAKERS' CORNER brings together six to ten writers each year who will spend the year exploring a specific Shaw play and writing individual new plays in response to that text and Shaw's forward thinking humanitarian ideals. Speakers' Corner members meet bi-monthly, and GTG will host showings of the works that Speakers' Corner develops at the end of the season. The group's members were identified through an open application process under the guidance of Becker, GTG Artistic Director David Staller, and this season's Speakers' Corner Readers and Advisory Committee: Ilana Becker, Stephen Brown-Fried, Ralph B. Peña, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Sharon Washington, along with Speakers' Corne alumni Hank Kim, and Lorenzo Roberts.

WRITERS:

Aeneas Sagar Hemphill (he/him) is an Indian-American playwright and screenwriter based in NYC and DC. Weaving through many genres, his work builds new worlds to illuminate our own, investigating the ghosts that haunt our lives and communities with passion, pathos, and humor. He was a 2019 Resident Artist with Monson Arts Center and 2017-2018 Playlab fellow at Pipeline Theatre, as well as semi-finalist for the 2019 Princess Grace Award, semi-finalist for the 2019 Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, and finalist for the 2017 Many Voices Fellowship. His plays include: Black Hollow (Argo Collective, Dreamscape Theatre), The Troll King (Pipeline), Childhood Songs (Monson Arts), The Republic of Janet & Arthur (Amios), The Red Balloon (Noor Theatre), A Stitch Here or There (DarkHorse Dramatists, Slingshot Theatre), A Horse and a Housecat (Slingshot Theatre). MFA Playwriting, Columbia University. Divya Mangwani is a writer and theatre artist from Pune, India, based in New York. She examines the absurdities of the social, political and mythical. Her work focuses on global identity and belonging. Divya was the founder and Artistic Director of Moonbeam Factory Theatre, where she wrote, directed, and produced plays in India, Singapore and Glasgow. In New York, she has developed work with UNICEF, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Gingold Theatrical Group, Rattlestick Theatre, Mabou Mines, Hypokrit Theatre, The Flea, Project Y, Pipeline Theatre, Rising Sun, and Governors Island. Divya is a recent fellow of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Gingold Theatrical Group Speakers Corner and was a NYTW 2050 Artistic Fellow, Hypokrit Theatre Tamasha playwright, Project Y Writers Group and Playlab fellow at Pipeline Theatre. Divya has also worked as a journalist and editor at The Times of India, ESPN, Crisis Response Journal, and Daily News & Analysis. Marcus Scott is a dramatist & journalist. Selected work includes Tumbleweed (finalist for the 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival; semifinalist for the 2022 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, the 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & the 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award), Sibling Rivalries (finalist for the 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; semi-finalist for the 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & the 2021 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award) and Cherry Bomb (recipient of the 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence). He was commissioned by Heartbeat Opera to adapt Beethoven's Fidelio (Librettist/Co-writer; The Met Museum; NY Times Critic's Pick). Recently developed at Gingold Theatrical Group (Speaker's Corner), Zoetic Stage (Finstrom Festival Of New Work), Queens Theatre (New American Voices series) and The Road Theatre Company's Under Construction 3 Playwrights Group and Cohort 2 of the Southern Black Playwrights Lab at the Mojoaa Performing Arts Company. Scott is a 2021 NYSAF Founders' Award finalist and a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. MFA: GMTWP, NYU Tisch. Mallory Jane Weiss's plays include Big Black Sunhats (The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2022; Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission finalist 2020), Lights Out and Away We Go (Clubbed Thumb reading June 2022), The Page Turners (The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist 2021), Pony Up (Princess Grace Finalist 2019; SPACE on Ryder Farm semi-finalist 2020), Howl From Up High (in development with Gingold Theatrical Group), Evermore Unrest (Red Bull Short New Play Festival 2020), Dave and Julia are stuck in a tree (Playing on Air's James Stevenson Prize 2020), and Losing You, Which Is Enough (workshop readings at The Lark and Cherry Lane Theatre). She is a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers' Group (2021-2022), The COOP's Clusterf**k vol. 2 (2021), Gingold Theatrical Group's Speakers Corner, and Fresh Ground Pepper's BRB Retreat (2019). Mallory earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. in playwriting from The New School. She also works as a Senior Writer for Ethena, where she creates harassment-prevention training in the form of short-form articles, graphic novels, audio plays, and more. In addition to Speakers' Corner, GTG's on-going play development also includes PRESS CUTTINGS, which, in recognition of Shaw's career as a theatre critic, supports the development of new plays written by theatre journalists. Press Cuttings has commissioned new plays by Jeremy McCarter, Robert Simonson, and David Cote, and, in June of 2017, presented an AEA workshop of David Cote's Otherland directed by May Adrales. This fall, GTG returned to live, in person performance with the acclaimed revival of Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession starring Robert Cuccioli, David Lee Huynh, Alvin Keith, Nicole King, Raphael Nash Thompson, and Tony® Award winner Karen Ziemba as Mrs. Warren, which recently completed its acclaimed Off-Broadway engagement at Theatre Row, directed by David Staller. Terry Teachout, reviewing Mrs. Warren's Profession in The Wall Street Journal, declared "Mr. Staller, who knows everything there is to know about Shaw, has not only staged the play but edited the text with his accustomed skill. All the more reason, then, to praise David Staller, the artistic director of Project Shaw, a long-running series of semi-staged concert readings of the playwright's 60-odd shows. In addition to Project Shaw, Mr. Staller's Gingold Theatrical Group presented fully staged small-scale off-Broadway versions of Heartbreak House in 2018 and Caesar and Cleopatra in 2019, and now they're doing Mrs. Warren's Profession. The production is completely satisfying... Sprinkled with tart, school-of-Wilde epigrams ('There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses') and overflowing with glittering talk, it's a foolproof vehicle for six accomplished actors and a director who, like Mr. Staller, knows better than to let the play become a static chat-fest. Instead, he keeps the actors moving and the pace brisk, and the results are immensely pleasurable." GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP creates theater that supports human rights, freedom of speech, and individual liberty using the work of George Bernard Shaw as our guide. All of GTG's programs are inspired by Shaw's humanitarian values. Through full productions, staged readings, new play development, and inner-city educational programs, GTG brings Shavian precepts to audiences and artists across New York, encouraging individuals to breathe Shaw's humanist ideals into their contributions for the future. Shaw created plays to inspire peaceful discussion and activism and that is what GTG aims to accomplish. GTG's past productions include Man and Superman (2012), You Never Can Tell (2013), Major Barbara (2014), Widowers' Houses (2016), Heartbreak House (2018), and Caesar & Cleopatra (2019). Founded in 2006 by David Staller, GTG has carved a permanent niche for the work of George Bernard Shaw within the social and cultural life of New York City, and, through the Project Shaw reading series, made history in 2009 as the first company ever to present performances of every one of Shaw's 65 plays (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches). GTG brings together performers, critics, students, academics and the general public with the opportunity to explore and perform theatrical work inspired by the humanitarian and activist values that Shaw championed. All comedies, these plays boldly exhibit the insight, wit, passion and all-encompassing socio-political focus that distinguished Shaw as one of the most inventive and incisive writers of all time. Through performances, symposiums, new play development, and outreach, as well as through our discussion groups and partnerships with schools including SUNY Stony Brook, Regis, the De La Salle Academy, and The Broome Street Academy, GTG has helped spark a renewed interest in Shaw across the country, and a bold interest in theater as activism. Young people are particularly inspired by Shaw's invocation to challenge the strictures society imposes, to embrace the power of the individual, to make bold personal choices and to take responsibility for these choices. GTG's new play development lab, Speakers' Corner, created to support playwrights inspired by Shaw's ideals, is now in its second cycle. Through monthly prompts and feedback, writers develop work inspired by or in response to a specific Shaw text. Plays developed through Speakers' Corner will be nurtured in workshops and readings with the expectation that GTG will publish or produce them. GTG encourages all people to rejoice in the possibilities of the future. All of GTG's programming is designed to inspire lively discussion and peaceful activism with issues related to human rights, the freedom of speech, and individual liberty. This was the purpose behind all of Shaw's work and why GTG chose him as the guide toward helping create a more tolerant and inclusive world through the exploration of the Arts. For more information about the Workshops or any of Gingold Theatrical Group's projects, please call 212-355-7823, email [email protected], or visit online at www.gingoldgroup.org.

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