*no words*
I'm a couple days late to this news, but I just learned that the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera will be closing this November.
I'm... just sitting here crying.
I imagine that someone, somewhere, might be doing an epic eye-roll over that, but I make no bones about the fact that that show, and the tour in particular, is really damn important to me. I owe a ton of happy memories to it; I've made friends through it; I got interviewed by Ted Keegan's hometown newspaper because of it; I've visited cities I never would have otherwise to see it; I built a corner nice for myself in the phandom. All that doesn't even really touch on the small little group of tour actors who've become really special to me just by virtue of always being there, and who have let me become a friend, even if only a tertiary one. (I'm not going to think any more highly of myself.)
I've come to think of the tour as "my" production, because out of all the times I've seen the show--ten, I think--only one of those was with a different company. I couldn't feel more sucker-punched if all the productions were closing down.
It's been suggested that a new tour may open in the next few years, but... I dunno. Right now I just feel like the loss of a major part of my life is imminent. Once this tour is gone, I may never be able to see the show again--a trip to Broadway would just be too expensive. The same goes for Las Vegas, and that production doesn't even perform the entire show.
I think I'm going to stop rambling now and go kill some things in Warcrack. It won't make me feel any better, but... yeah.
I'm... just sitting here crying.
I imagine that someone, somewhere, might be doing an epic eye-roll over that, but I make no bones about the fact that that show, and the tour in particular, is really damn important to me. I owe a ton of happy memories to it; I've made friends through it; I got interviewed by Ted Keegan's hometown newspaper because of it; I've visited cities I never would have otherwise to see it; I built a corner nice for myself in the phandom. All that doesn't even really touch on the small little group of tour actors who've become really special to me just by virtue of always being there, and who have let me become a friend, even if only a tertiary one. (I'm not going to think any more highly of myself.)
I've come to think of the tour as "my" production, because out of all the times I've seen the show--ten, I think--only one of those was with a different company. I couldn't feel more sucker-punched if all the productions were closing down.
It's been suggested that a new tour may open in the next few years, but... I dunno. Right now I just feel like the loss of a major part of my life is imminent. Once this tour is gone, I may never be able to see the show again--a trip to Broadway would just be too expensive. The same goes for Las Vegas, and that production doesn't even perform the entire show.
I think I'm going to stop rambling now and go kill some things in Warcrack. It won't make me feel any better, but... yeah.