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[bookelfe]

Before going to see PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 2: LOVE NEVER DIES, rowanberries and I applied the wisdom I had gained after my recent excursion to see Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, which is to say that we went and fortified ourselves with a drink first.I . . . don’t know how much it helped, to be honest, but I think at the very least it greatly contributed to the

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[ceitfianna]

I want to see an Indiana Jones' musical.

This sounds terrifying. I remember reading a review of it in the New York Tiems when it opened and just boggling. Your take is better.

[bookelfe]

SO DO I. Someone get on this! I hear Julie Taymor is at loose ends again now she's been fired from Spiderman . . .

Haha, thanks!

[winding_path]

I love your theatre reviews.

Thank you, Becca. I needed that. :)

[bookelfe]

We did it for the internet, Georgia! Forever and ever, when asked why we went, THIS WILL BE OUR EXCUSE. <3

[winding_path]

It is a good excuse! The internet needs people like you, to jump on the hand granades of live theatre for the rest of us! And then be incredibly amusing and witty telling us about what you suffered for our sakes.

[bookelfe]

I AM GLAD OUR MASOCHISM SERVES A PURPOSE, is all.

(Man, though, I do feel that this musical needed to be reviewed by people who know fandom. Because only if you know all the ridiculous Phantom of the Opera fanfic tropes can you really appreciate this play as it was clearly meant to be appreciated.)

[gramarye1971]

All in all, I think I prefer the Mao-sex. But that's just me.

(You are both brave, brave women. And your theatre reviews should really be collected and published somewhere.)

[bookelfe]

I don't know,I will say, after Spiderman and Nixon, it was a relief to see a show where I could clearly tell, at all points, who exactly was singing and what they were saying! So . . . . kudos for that, I guess, Love Never Dies!

(man, Shannon, I have seen more theater these past few months than I did like all last year . . . AND SO MUCH OF IT WAS INEXPLICABLE.)

[parcae]

...

This sounds strangely compelling. In a really awful way.

[bookelfe]

It was really hard to look away from the bright purple stage!

[requiem2adream]

... I HAVE TO SEE THIS SHOW!

[bookelfe]

I AM SO SORRY YOU WERE NOT THERE WITH US to share in the terror valuable theatrical experience!