"Love Never Dies" aka POTO2 has started playing in London (I'd completely forgotten all about it) and it's even more of a badfic than expected. This amuses me deeply, but I appreciate that others may feel rather differently when faced with the entire extent of the inanity that is Erik-the-single-dad and er, other exciting developments ( Read more... )

Aaaaand here is Ramin Karimloo, singing the very boring repetitive sedate number from "Love Never Dies", imaginatively entitled "Till I Hear You Sing (Once More)".

Is it me, or should be called "Tomorrow Never Dies"? See, I said it sounded like a Bond flick! But quite seriously, this is altogether too reminiscent of "Tomorrow" from "Annie"... I may ( Read more... )

The tickets to ALW's dubious new opus, "Love Never Dies" -- aka Phantom-2 -- went on sale about 15 mins ago, and it seems quite difficult to find available allocation. Which suggests that either everyone is madly parting with their £67.50 per seat, or these tickets will later turn up on ebay ( Read more... )

There are some advantages to living near London. Last night B and I went to the theatre, to see an adaptation of a Russian film, "Burnt by the Sun"/"Utomlennye Solntzem", which won an Oscar a while back. Despite my prejudice (to wit: distaste for Nikita Mikhalkov, who starred in and directed the original film), I must admit it was a brilliant, ( Read more... )

There's a POTO fic in there just dying to get out. (No pun intended. :D)


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All this talk in the other thread about POTO made me nostalgic, so I started digging through youtube... And found the perfect combination. (And also the perfect explanation why I prefer the film version). Since my LJ is turning into a video collection anyway, I figured I'd share.

Sarah Brightman, "Think of Me" (or else...):

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Emmy Rossum, "Think of ( Read more... )

POTO meets American Idol (or vice versa) -- fictionreader has the videosMy thoughts ( Read more... )

One of the most inventive fan videos I've encountered -- I wish more video artists had the creativity to use footage from elsewhere. Now if only this had been the "Moonlight Sonata"... :D

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Hilarious (and unfortunately short!) "All I Ask Of You" parody by the multitalented amateur actress/singer Amy Walker.

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Her other clips are worth a look too, actually -- everything from St Joan, to 21 accents in 2 mins (the Russian one is spot-on, the Sydney one less so), through to Ursula from "The Little Mermaid". :D

From a Russian POTO forum (excuse my translation; original by Karis ( Read more... )