Mckenna Grace attends the 98th Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Matei Horvath/FilmMagic)
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Illusions of Grandeur
@beyond-this-illusion
illusion, she/her, 34
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Elle Fanning attends the 98th Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/WireImage)
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phantom of the opera US tour audio gift - march 13th, 2026
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isaiah bailey, jordan lee gilbert, daniel lopez
[untracked audio]
CAST: isaiah bailey (phantom), jordan lee gilbert (christine), daniel lopez (raoul), carrington vilmont (andre), william thomas evans (firmin), lisa vroman (giry), midori marsh (carlotta), christopher bozeka (piangi), melo ludwig (meg)
notes: before the phantom of the opera started touring, where did people go to be annoying? audio includes chair creaking and and bag crinkling from others around me, also some shuffling from late arrivals. at one point during il muto a man walked through our entire row, aisle to aisle, when his seat was multiple rows back. but once again this cast is incredible and worth putting up with just about anything. the show was amazing in baltimore, and it’s only gotten better since. the trio especially has grown so much with their character choices, and you can really hear it when comparing audios from early in the tour to now. audio just doesn’t do these performances enough justice though, please go see the show if you can!
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please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit
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Gary Mauer and Beth Southard Final Lair
Imagine getting paid to French your husband speechless two nights a week for ten years. Babygirl drew this out for six gifs. That’s twice the average length.
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imagine going into a theatre basement and there’s a freak yelling at you to sing and you just have to sing because the freaks kinda hot or somethin
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double feature scheming court eunuchmaxxing//polzi/the-bear-is-loose stream notes
- @luminiel: proscenium <3 @poorerik: look at her :’)
- @daaesviolin: god i miss the original prologue
- @AngelofMusicals87614: Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is possibly the only Video that exists of Ben Forster as The Phantom? @paper_faces: theres some of him performing on live television @-Aldebaran-: Is Ben Forster not with the World Tour anymore? @wheel-of-fish: I think he was a temporary fill-in deb? @daaesviolin: wasn’t he between JRox and SWM? @lit-ari-ture: Daaesviolin yes! @AngelofMusicals87614: Ben was also London’s 30th Anniversary Phantom
- @angelofmusicals87614: That Raquel Suarez Groen as Carlotta Right
- [introduction of Ben Forster’s Phantom] @les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques: that was giving borderline rex harrison
- @daaesviolin: i swear to god, the original pace resets my nervous system every time @haunted-hideaway: West End is a race to see who can get to the end first LOL
- @les__gnossiennes: i feel like the jesus to rik pipeline energy is so strong, that’s surprising to me
- @paper_faces: lillies he that one meme thats “lets f*ck before doling anything disgusting like kissing”
- @funeral_lilies: pervert mist is just choloroform in the fog machine
- @wheel-of-fish: oh yeah I forgot to mention there’s no final lair @wheel-of-fish: but andrey has a good one to make up for it @warpweight: oh god the russian liveleak final lair
- @daaesviolin: seeing the organ this far away is giving franklin mint collection vibes
- @warpweight: Schrodinger’s Forced Marriage
- @GlassPrism: Also like that he only does it when Christine looks away [lost the line but Celina said something along the lines of how he can only be vulnerable when she doesn’t see him and. yes]
- @Luukfy: damn, he moves like a sensual cat
- @warpweight: a bugs bunny scheming kind of stride @les__gnossiennes: i need the scary sims burglar music behind this
- @warpweight: that litle step-fakeout-step. he’s jestermaxxing. he’s scheming court eunuchmaxxing @lonlonranching: bonermaxxing
- Ben’s STYDI from @paper-faces!
- @ozymegdias: Disney Princess up in here @Ravens_Reproach: She’s gonna go feed a deer after this for self-care @lonlonranching: christine is soooo disney princess coded waitttt she would be like the birds did my laundry this morning and the bugs brushed my hair and meg would be like haha ok @funeral_lilies: she got the birds to help her crimp her apple pie
- @lit-ari-ture: I wonder why the WT chose to go with a grounded angel while everyone else went with a pegasus? @GlassPrism: And the World Tour did this before the Pegasus was used in the West End revival GlassPrism: The way to think of it is productions were trying to do different experiments to be more tourable. In one branch you have the restagings; in another branch you have the World Tour, also used in China; and a third branch is the West End revival and anything based off of it (US tour)
- @haunted-hideaway: Some Raouls and Christines just don’t click and these two are like… MAH BABIEZ. LET ME LOVE YOU.
- [the cut straight from the end of bow just before the chandelier fall, to the chandelier lying on stage in the entr'acte; long shot of just that] @poorerik: that cut was comedic asf
- @wheel-of-fish: deb don’t we have audio of you saying “i’m going to nail that man” at the stagedoor @lonlonranching: no i crave to hammer a rik down with nails in a cartoonish manner @Forestscribe4: not as bad as me telling him how much i liked his breathing
- @from-aldebaran: To cut costs and save space, The Phantom wears the Red Death costume in the graveyard scene @ravens-repine: Don’t worry guys, Red Death is just stalking abroad
- @Ravens_Reproach: Bronson wears glasses you say @Ravens_Reproach: rik with glasses confirmed
- fathering :)
- @lonlonranching: rik read about what mary shelley did on her moms grave and sims burglar ran here @dot-qhost: i still think abt that one post that went “beneath a moonless sky would’ve happened on her father’s grave if raoul didnt show up”
- Ben Forester’s geordie accent!
- aspen’s stickers! (@onlyphantoms)
****** New stream starts here ******
- @box5intern: oh also speaking of Russia I was listening to a podcast about Rasputin today. Rik ass man.
- batherik: oops I forgot russian jumpscare @paper_faces: $10 @luukfy woke up upon hearing russian LOL
- @Luukfy: Ah, here it’s a bit similar to the german translation, where Christine first refers to Raoul in plural respectful ‘You’ (for strangers), and the second time once she recognises him, in singlular familiar 'you’
- @beyond-this-illusion: This Rik could snap Lerik in half
- @paper_faces: i feel unsafe around him im ok with that
- @warpweight: THEY WOULD NEED TWO TIN CANS AND A STRING TO COMMUNICATE DURING SEX. AND THAT’S GONNA MAKE THEIR VOICES ALL TINNY :(
- @Luukfy: she sang 'the phantom of the opera has gotten into my mind, he’s my double’ @motelpearl: “sing my double” when an ugly stranger calls you twin
- @Luukfy: her: I’m just a mask him: and I’m underneath it @batherik: bottom erik confirmed
- @Ravens_Reproach: боже мой
- @AngelofMusicals87614: This was the Production with the Blue Tinted Masks Right?
- @Luukfy: night’s wings will dim sky’s light, touch them, become them, losing body-something, didn’t catch
- @GlassPrism: @luukfy How is the translation just out of curiosity? Because I know there are lyrics that can sound better translated back into English but they might sound awkward in the actual language @Luukfy: I remember from reading the whole libretto it somehow sounded less horny than in english, but maybe it was just sibjective @ Luukfy: Celina, I remember that some phrases didn’t sound as good when skimming the libretto earlier this week, like not as full, but i don’t remember the specifics [also I remember the translator saying that some of the meaning has gotten lost in translation because the direct translations won’t have the same double meanings as they would in English, also due to grammar and how succinct English is, even more gets lost]
- @warpweight: what is the old playground adage? if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer? well christine. i was not allowed at school due to my problems of all sorts. but from my basement window, i could hear the playground wisdom too…. if my hand is bigger than YOUR face it means we have to get married
- @les__gnossiennes: imagine a whole land mass coming for you
- @Luukfy: touch me, i’m here, i’m close
- @funeral_lilies: @Luukfy how do you say crawl in russian? @Luukfy: ползи @paper_faces: ползи ползи ползи ползи ползиползи ползи ползи ползи ползиползи ползи ползи ползи ползиползи ползи ползи ползи ползиползи ползи ползи ползи ползи
- @Luukfy: Best friend, father, mentior, wise teacher; the life has shattered, and once again i need your protection
- @Luukfy: once again the child, having wondered from the path, looks for a friend in me
- @Luukfy: without my custody/guardianship [fathering by proxy :x] @emotionalmotionsicknessxx: legal guardianship, erik signing her school permission slops
- @paper_faces: russians just built diff like how is this possible, they are both so beautiful and talented CRIES
- @funeral_lilies: WAIT @luukfy did you ever watch the russian treasure island with doctor livesey lmao his voice reminded me of that in the graveyard for a moment
- @Luukfy: you’ve decided to come here, submitting to unknown power/force @Luukfy: let’s shed the masks of false shame
- @GlassPrism: I like how her bodice is on the verge of separating from her skirt
- @daaesviolin: vodka @paper_faces: that drink was definitely spiked @lonlonranching: lightweight christine u r important to ME
- @funeral-lilies: need that petite morte tout suite
- @paper_faces: this is a christine that is NOT acting imo
- @daaesviolin: i know it’s not the same country/language, but this is making me want Panna a Netvor the musical
- @TheEggSaysTune: the bear is loose
- @les__gnossiennes: great comet mmm
- @Luukfy: lyrics sound a bit more tame, like no 'entwinign bodies’ (join passions instead), i didn’t notice warm secrets and temptations, though i’m probably missing stuff
- @emotionalsicknessxx: if i hit the lottery i wont say but there will be signs (making this costume)
- @-Aldebaran-: His hand encompasses her whole forearm
- @-Aldebaran-: He had to bend so she could reach his head
- (dark prison where my mind is hidden in a hellish/infernal pitch)
- @Luukfy: here, she misses the 'lust for flesh’, but he does say that the fate has bloodied his hands, making him miss out on the delights of the flesh
- “Angel, tell me, why are you being rude? why did you get into my mind falsely?”
- pic from Gnoss (also, I seem to remember the version with her actually giving him the finger - if anyone has that, please sne dit my way!)
- @-Aldebaran-: He was looking at Raoul like he was realizing the throne is the cuck chair
- @Luukfy: Know, the creature of darkness, heavens will add to my strength, so in this endless darkness you won’t be alone
- @motelpearl: the russian weep experiment :(
- @lonlonranching: he’s becoming catholic after this shit @daaesviolin: he’s joining the russian orthodox church actually
- @warpweight: THE EYE CONTACT AS SHE BACKS AWAY
- him smiling after the kiss.. and really, really considering whether to free raoul, with raoul shaking his head….. him smiling randomly when hearing her voice when the boat floats away….
- Celina’s gifsets! and more!
- Also, some links from youtube search: PONR, Final lair
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A n y w h e r e you go let me go too…
(Andrey Schkoldychenko and Elena Bahtiyarova, Moscow production.)
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Ben Forster going OFF at the end of the title song in Singapore (with Grace Roberts, also wonderful)
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thelordoftherainwoods asked:
John Owen Jones orEarl Carpenter as the Phantom
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Siri is making a “Hugh smirking plus a bonus non-smirking” gifset the same as writing or
Lol one of my IG followers asked if I was alright today. Oh girl.
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I love it when fan fiction writers are like: “ah shit, this was meant to be one part but I started writing it and now it has to be three”. Like the fanfic is happening to them and not being created by them.
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slamming your knights visor down when you’re finished talking to them, like slamming the phone back on the receiver.
Turning around to leave only to turn back and lift the visor up for one last remark before slamming it down again.
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get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are “little cunt” and “catatonic with grief”
