Photos From Theater Lueneburg's Production Of Love Never Dies. It Stars Real Life Husband And Wife (and

new reblog game actually put in the tags what the blog you reblogged from tastes like

the other day i was witness to a bunch of ppl hating on phantom of the opera for being problematic/romanticizing an abusive relationship and i just. i. like...

do people not realize the entire point of the story is that she leaves the phantom and gets with raoul. like. she literally tells the phantom to his face that she doesn't love him and will never be with him. she rejects him. she was only attached to him under the false pretense that he was a spirit sent by her dead father to comfort her and tutor her in music.

most of their so-called romantic scenes were when she still thought he was a spirit sent by her father. if she had romantic/sexual desires for him (which i'm not opposed to) then imo (thru the lens of psychoanalytical criticism) her feelings were a result of her psychologically sublimating the loss of her father + the loneliness of the opera house lifestyle into this forbidden sexual fantasy which blends the lines between the sexual and the spiritual. but ppl aren't ready for that.

anyway, then she realizes she was being manipulated and had a traumatic grief response and leaves him and leaves the opera behind to have a happy life with her childhood best friend who loved her for her regardless of whether or not she sang. like. hello?

ppl just hate it because of the fans who romanticize erik/christine and gave it that reputation + the love never dies sequel which basically retcons the original story and has no basis on the musicals canon or the story in the original novel... but popular opinion doesn't change canon and neither does retconning... so why should either of those things matter... stop conflating fandom opinions with narrative truths...

ANNEMIEKE VAN DAM als Elisabeth und LUKAS MAYER als Der Tod

Elisabeth China Tour 2024 Shanghai Premiere (29.August 2024)

big fan of when a character is a vengeful ghost but they're not even dead

elisabeth textposts three ✌☝

I love that Jesus Christ Superstar ends at the crucifixion instead going through the whole resurrection. It's the perfect ending for their portrayal of an extremely human Jesus. It's like it's saying that whether or not the resurrection happened doesn't matter, not this time. We know that's the most vital part of every other telling, but this time we're talking about Jesus the man. And if anything crawled out of that cage, it was no longer a man. Whatever happened next, this is where this man, as he knew himself, ended. And so that is where we leave you.

NOTES:

- I mean “prefer” in terms of being in the show, from a plot and thematic perspective, not how much you like the song in general.

- Some of these were implemented elsewhere before their Vienna run, but I wrote those dates to simplify it.

Vampire-inspired fashion shoot for the main characters in Vienna, a few years ago.

A TDV fashion shoot and no Herbert. It’s an outrage.

Elisabeth das Musical Textposts pt. 1

Rudolf: Andreas Bieber, Der Tod: Uwe Kröger (1992)

Elisabeth: Pia Douwes, Maximilian: Wolfgang Pampel (1992)

Der Tod: Uwe Kröger, Elisabeth: Pia Douwes (2002)

Elisabeth: Pia Douwes, Der Tod: Uwe Kröger (1992)

Der Tod: Uwe Kröger (1992)

Rudolf: Lukas Perman, Der Tod: Mark Seibert, Elisabeth: Maya Hakvoort (2022)

*holding you close as you bleed out*

Yeah man... it was a good bit... it was a really good bit... really funny....