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[ingenue_bait]

Will someone kindly tell me why if my entire life story is considered popular entertainment, it must be so... popular? By which I mean the deplorable quality of this "musical" I have heard tell of. The man would not get a job notating scores, where I am from. And while opera is rarely notable for great poetry, lines like "it's over now, the music

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[empirical_data]

[Oh no. He is... terrible at consoling people. After his miserable attempt with the Doctor he almost doesn't try, however...] You produce notably superior music to what is utilized in the musical.

[ingenue_bait]

Yes.

[Silence.]

What is your point?

[empirical_data]

It is hardly a representation of you. Therefore someone that would presume to know you based upon a viewing [or even prose] would not have any idea about your true self. It is a rather one sided perspective. Disappointing, but it does not expose much of you at all.

I would rather speak with you as I am.

[ingenue_bait]

[Erik is somewhat mollified, but covers in that "well, obviously" sense.]

Naturally. It is nearly unrecognizable as a portrait. Yet having her name dragged into it...

Erik had worked very hard to maintain his privacy. The violation is in principle, if not emotional truth.

[goddamn_owlman]

Ah, The Phantom of the Opera? I never found the musical to be of any note - it's quite melodramatic, indeed.

((Tom hasn't made up his mind whether he'll hold "The Phantom of the Opera" over Erik as a joke, or not...he is considering, though))

[ingenue_bait]

[Erik is realizing it was a mistake to reveal this fact.]

It is drivel.

[goddamn_owlman]

Indeed.

[There's a long pause]

Well, Monsieur Phantom, I suppose I will bid you farewell...for now.

[ingenue_bait]

At last, someone demonstrating proper respect.

[wichita_kansas]

God, I remember the theater kids in high school bounding around in their all-black attire, queening up the entire school with their reenactments from Phantom of the Opera. You poor guy.

[ingenue_bait]

I... met some children in Salem who appeared to match this description. I do not know the meaning of the word "queening."

[wichita_kansas]

Gaying up the place with their musicals.

Children reenacting your life story? Sounds pretty rough. Sorry, man.

[ingenue_bait]

It did not improve my mood any, so I could not call it "gay."

However, I did not witness this reenactment, for which I am grateful.

It totally has been made into a musical. :D

[failedcreator]

My life story has also been disrespected in such a manner. Although, at the very least, it was not put to music.

I don't think I know that one

[ingenue_bait]

Yes. I am familiar.

It's close to the book. :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_%E2%80%93_A_New_Musical

[failedcreator]

You have read these letters?

[ingenue_bait]

No.

It seems you, too, are fictional.

[notonedrop]

...I thought the quality was good.

[ingenue_bait]

[Erik cannot even respond to this.]