whenever I watch this scene I keep thinking abt that one episode of The Hang With Ramin Karimloo where he and Sierra talked abt the 25th so... here's a cast commentary style edit i guess
this interview proves exactly what i’ve been saying about this scene for YEARS, i think part of what makes this production so good is that ramin and sierra were fresh out of love never dies. the romantic tension is not too much to the point it becomes unbelievable like some productions, but just enough that you FEEL it and want her to turn back. so so so so good.
Gaston Leroux: *writes a book about a very tragic, broken, mentally ill man who causes an absolute fiasco in an opera house. It is serious and well-written classic literature.*
100 years later
Ppl who read the book: Oohhh my blorbo? The eeby deeby! The krinkly doo! The skrinkly little guy. Just a fella.
Thinking about how Gaston Leroux at every given opportunity in the The Phantom of the Opera novel was like, “And Raoul de Chagny, who was a blond twink who definitely would’ve let Christine peg him, sobbed—”