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I can confirm that the US tour did use the bathrobe as late as July 2017 in its Vancouver, Canada stop. Christine is Eva Tavares however I am unsure who Meg was that night.

I am unsure if they are currently still using it in any iteration of the Restaged Tour in other cities however.

A random question, but do you have any idea if Meg still wears the pink bathrobe in the restated tour?

Ya know, I wondered about the same the other day!! I was working on a photoset showing costume quirks in the the Restaged UK Tour that didn't make it into the US or elsewhere. But I am in doubt of Meg's pink dressing gown. It was worn during Angel of Music in the UK:

But I can't recall seeing it elsewhere? On the other hand it's a moment hardly if ever photographed in the Restaged Tour, so correct me if I'm wrong. I have a vague memory of it being done early in the US Tour, but right now I am too lazy to check videos to spot it. Feel free to chime in.

Whatever the case, it always felt like a nod to the West End production of Love Never Dies, where Meg wore a coral dressing gown in the first act:

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As I seem to use this as a costume blog here and there nowadays, and I am so excited about these I can’t help but post them here…

My Star Princess boots are well loved/in incredibly rough shape Peter Fox boots which were lovingly restored and painted by my partner while I’ve been stuck in tech week rehearsals for the last couple weeks and I’m over the moon (pun absolutely intended) with how they turned out!

Many thanks to @operafantomet for their numerous reference photos and wonderfully catalogued source of all things Phantom as apparently their blog was an invaluable resource for the design choice and colour matching!

#phantom of the opera #christine daae #star princess #phantom broadway #peter fox

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I did the modelling for this session and it’s so fun to see how artists interpret the poses and capture everything!!! 😍😍😍

online life drawing

#phantom of the opera #live drawing #christine daae #wishing gown #wishing you were somehow here again

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#always reblog #i don't make the rules #star wars

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F%#*ing this post folks! If you choose to villain-ize Raoul de Chagny because you see “gas lighting” when he’s providing nothing but a voice of reason… I don’t trust your interpretation of the entire show.

I don’t debate this. I’ve been a victim of gaslighting and probably wouldn’t have been able to get out without the people in my life providing a voice of reason and helping me see past the lies I was being told to keep me trapped.

Next time you want to use this as a reason to say any character is “bad” please look up gaslighting in the dictionary and truly ensure that’s what they are doing. It’s hard enough to recognize gaslighting when it’s taking place and you’re being told lies; we don’t need this very real form of abuse being misunderstood and changed into something else entirely.

Saw this post that accused Raoul of gaslighting Christine when he said "there is no phantom of the opera". Any thoughts?

Which post. There are so many of them. So... very... many. I'll just assume it was this one, since it was the most recent that I saw crossing the Phantom tag, but I could probably point out more.

Anyway, my thought as always for these kinds of posts is, "Why oh why can't people learn the actual definition of gaslighting?" Gaslighting, as defined in the The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook, is "a cruel, deceptive activity put in place by an abuser to make their target doubt themselves and their real-life decisions, start to feel confused, and think they’re going crazy." The Gaslight Effect also describes a gaslighter as someone "who needs to be right in order to preserve his own sense of self and his sense of having power in the world."

What this means is that gaslighting is not just telling someone they're wrong when it turns out that they're actually right, which seems to be what a lot of people think gaslighting is. I mean, by that definition, then an argument between myself and a coworker about how to do a certain piece of paperwork would be "gaslighting". Instead, gaslighting is deliberate, done specifically to make someone doubt themselves and place trust in the gaslighter, and usually, long-term and part of a pattern of abuse.

None of that fits with what Raoul is doing in the rooftop scenario in the musical. For one thing, Raoul is not being deceptive; he truly does not believe there is a Phantom; phantoms are ghosts, and the notes, the threatening voice, Carlotta’s sabotage, Buquet dying, all of that are results of a human act. (And, you know, he's right, there really is no Phantom, he is a man.) For him to be deceptive and to fall more in line with the definition of gaslighting, he'd have to continue insisting there is no Phantom even, say, if both he and Christine witness the Phantom, like say during the Red Death scene, but then he goes to Christine and keeps going, "No Christine, you made it all up, nobody showed up to the masked ball." But as we see in the musical, that doesn't happen; once Raoul sees the Phantom with his own eyes, he immediately figures it out ("And so our Phantom's this man").

Furthermore, Raoul does not tell Christine there's no Phantom to make her doubt herself or to acquire power over her. He tells her that because she is literally panicking in that scene. Take a look at her lines with Raoul's removed:

"He'll kill me! His eyes will find me there! Those eyes that burn! And if he has to kill a thousand men, The Phantom of the Opera will kill and kill again! My God, who is this man who hunts to kill? I can't escape from him, I never will! And in this labyrinth, where night is blind the Phantom of the Opera is here, inside my mind."

Christine is not calm during this scene; she literally dragged Raoul to the rooftop of the opera house and starts telling him things that, to any other person, would seem fantastical. This is completely understandable on Christine's part, I should say, but if you pretend as an audience member that you never saw the first lair scenes, then you might be like Raoul and think she was just panicking.

I think the post I linked also stated that Raoul is not saying that the Phantom is a man, because he says line, "What you heard was a dream and nothing more" after Christine starts describing her experiences, but the entire context of that scene suggests not:

CHRISTINE: Raoul, I've been there - to his world of unending night. To a world where the daylight dissolves into darkness. darkness. Raoul, I've seen him! Can I ever forget that sight? Can I ever escape from that face? So distorted, deformed, it was hardly a face, in that darkness. darkness. But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound. In that night there was music in my mind. And through music my soul began to soar! And I heard as I'd never heard before. RAOUL: What you heard was a dream and nothing more.

While Christine is not full-blown panicking in this scene, she's just come out of her previous state of hysteria (and moreover, is heading into an equally worrisome state of trance). Moreover, she's still describing equally unbelievable things. We the audience know all this is real, but to Raoul, a deformed man living in "unending night" and Christine apparently hearing angelic voices in her mind or spirit or whatever? It really does sound like a dream, and in the context of Christine running around panicking, it's like Christine is going stream-of-consciousness style, connecting the murder to superstitions about a ghost to her own dreams.

Finally, as part of the definition above, gaslighting is also usually long-term and part of a pattern of abuse. None of this is shown in the musical either. The rooftop scene is the only time we see Raoul telling Christine the Phantom does not exist; afterwards, he's fully on board and working to take down the guy. We also don't see Raoul exhibiting any other classic signs of abuse, such as controlling behavior, isolating her from friends and family, humiliating, judging, criticizing, or dominating her, withholding affection, undermining, trivializing, name-calling, or threatening her, or of course, hitting or hurting her or sexually abusing her. I suppose one can argue that we only see parts of their relationship and maybe he was doing that during the six months that pass between Act 1 and 2, but there's no textual evidence for or against it, so that can only exist in the realm of headcanons.

So there's my thoughts not only for that post, but for any post that accuses Raoul of gaslighting, and let this be the end of it.

#phantom of the opera #sasha rants #gaslighting #in defence of Raoul de Chagny #tw abuse

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Front, back and close up detail shot of my (still in progress) Hannibal Slave Girl Bodice from the Phantom of the Opera.

I decided to go with the US bodice style route, with angel chest plate and beaded bust. Angels were provided by @enchantedseastudio a few years ago now and I just managed to get the top of it done to be worn by Halloween this year… Dressing Gown pictures to come in a bit!

Many thanks to @operafantomet who’s copious amount of catalogued reference photos and amazing research definitely helped me in recreating the design. I have a few tweaks I will be making to make certain filigree shapes more accurate and of course adding the jewels down the front three trims, the golden belt, and of course the rope skirt!

#cosplay by Sasha #phantom of the opera #christine daae #hannibal slave girl #replica costumes

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“Sing for me! 🎶🥀🎶”

Phantom of the Opera: @gwenhwyfar.28 (Instagram)

#phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera cosplay #cosplay by others #erik the phantom #christine daae #I’m so proud of my partner for the work they put into this costume

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As I currently rebuild this gown, this post resurfaced as I was looking for references of what it looked like before... might as well share it again so it’s easier to find.

“Wandering child – so lost, so helpless…”

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The Phantom of the Opera | IG Christine Daae | IG  Photography © @muji_kid​  Embroidery & fabric by @enchantedseastudio Mask by @longshoremasks

#phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera cosplay #christine daae cosplay #poto #christine daae

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I HAVE WAITED ALL YEAR TO POST THIS

#the muppet christmas carol

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Deleted scene where Padmé addresses the senate in Episode 2.

They deleted this but not Anakin’s 5 minute rant about how much he hates sand? Smh.

#my current costume build #padme’s deleted senate dress #also yes #why was this deleted it's so good

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#thebabewiththepower

#the power!!!!

#themandalorian #themandalorianspoilers

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For anyone who’s ever wondered who they’d be in a 19th century novel, the wait is over: I put together a 19th Century Character Trope Generator!

If you’d like to reblog, put your character in the tags because I’m curious.

#worldly tutor who is in love with a duchess #i mean my current costume alter ego fits perfectly #coughObiWanKenobicough #lol

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TOO MUCH CUTE, CANNOT HANDLE, SEND HELP (part seven/ ∞)

#darth dad #a star war

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Pasta is great. It’s like hey, let me take delicious things like butter,or meat, or tomatoes or basil and then let me just fuckin mix whatever the fuck i want in and combine it with some random ass noodles.  That’s basically pasta.  BUT, there’s a big difference between “basically pasta” and “holy shit food of the gods” pasta, and that is that the latter has some rules that must be followed.  10 PASTA COMMANDMENTS COMIN UP:

Always boil pasta in boiling SALTED water. Ever had a dish where you forgot to salt it before cooking it, and no matter how much seasoning you did post saute/sear, it still sort of tasted bland on the inside? Same goes for pasta. Your sauce could be fuckin on point, but if you don’t salt dat pasta water, ya fugged, bruh. 

Always have your sauce ready BEFORE the pasta. Pestos, emulsified butter sauces, bolognese sauces, they should be in their respective sauce pans, heated and ready to go (unless we’re takin pesto or carbonarashit, as those go bad with heat). The worst thing you could do is fuck up and overcook your delicious pasta bc you were too busy making or finishing up your sauce. 

Always TASTE your pasta. I don’t care if the package says it’s ready in 1 minute or an hour, taste your pasta from the boiling water at least 2 minutes in, and every 2 minutes after that. Al dente’s usually the way to go, but you’ll never know when to take it out if you’re not constantly tasting. 

DO NOT strain your pasta, wasting your pasta water and allowing your pasta to cool. Use tongs to take pasta straight up form the boiling water (don’t dry it, nerds) and throw it in your sauce. A little pasta water gets in? no probs, and I’ll tell you why. 

If your sauce is reducing too much, or it’s too tight, add pasta water. It’s salted and hot and ready to go, it won’t dilute the flavor at all, you’re golden duude. golden. 

Finish your pasta in the sauce, allow it to become homogenous, let the sauce stick to the pasta, BECOME ONE WITH THE PASTA BRUH. 

Add cheese last, because cheese get’s weird and fucked up in hot pans, so it’s best to throw that on right before you’re ready to eat that shit up. 

4 oz is a normal serving size for pasta. If you don’t have a scale, that’s basically like the first pic above. If you hold the pasta like such, and the width of the bunch is a little smaller than an american quarter, then ur good 2 go bruh. 

Dry pastas are not better/worse than fresh pasta. They’re legit just made with different flours using different procedures. One isn’t ‘fancier’ than the other u pretentious buttrockets. 

PASTA IS NOT SCARY, IT’S DELICIOUS. These rules look tough, but honestly it’s not that bad bruh. I believe in u. 

and now, onto the recipe I used for my pasta. It’s a restaurant favorite, we always make it on the line because it’s simple, delicious and super filling. 

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Caciopepe Pasta serves: 1 (lol like id share this with ppl lolol) -

Ingredients-

salt water for boiling (just salt some water, don’t fuckin travel to the beach in hopes of created the most bomb pasta ever)

1 bunch of pasta

2 bay leaves

1 sprig thyme

cold butter (approximately 2/3 cups cut into small pads

parmesan cheese to taste

a shit ton of black pepper to taste

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Procedure-

Throw some pasta into some boiling water and do that thing where you constantly taste test the pasta to see if it’s ready. In the meantime, make ur sauce u lazy bumbum.

Add a little boiling pasta water to a saute pan over low heat, and whisk/mix in the butter quickly till it’s creamy and emulsified. If it’s too thick, just whisk in a teeny bit of pasta water. Add 2 bay leaves and a sprig of thyme for aroma, remove when pasta’s ready. 

Once the pasta’s ready to rock and roll, use tongs to scoop it up and place it in the sauce. Flip and mix using tongs. Add cheese and crack a lot of pepper. Add salt if it needs seasoning, add more pasta water if the sauce tightens.

and bam, ya ready to roll. 

~ I promise u if you use these pasta techniques, people will think ur literally a GOD. ur welcs. 

#as an italian i can vouch for this post #pasta is the shit #all you have to do is get creative

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Luminara Unduli: All of Barriss’s snacks are organic.

Obi-Wan: That’s cool. My padawans both eat candy off the floor.

#omg lol #a star war

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literally every sleep advice pamphlet and website: don’t do things before bedtime! no reading! no video games! don’t watch tv! nothing stimulating at all within two hours of going to bed! :)

me, an adhd: you fools. you buffoons. i can’t even manage one minute without stimulation. i will die before following this advice and that is a threat

#me af #adhd lyfe

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These jerseys (both Neil and Andrew) will be for sale in the future, shorts included. They are custom-made, custom printed, and barely worn except for photo shoots.

Sizes on both are around a S/M.

Please DM me if interested!

All the best, Sasha <3

#the foxhole court #tfc cosplay #foxhole court cosplay #neil josten cosplay #andrew minyard cosplay