O hay, I'm twenty-four today. Weird, that. :)

And so is eclecticmuse, and xonpathos, and the dog is two, and... hey remarque1213, how old is Justin now? :D

Also, hell has officially frozen over: Performance rights to The Phantom of the Opera granted to high schools. (I don't think there's really anything I can say about this...)

Because it's about that time of year again *headdesk* ...

Title: Teacher of Music, 13/?
Fandom: The Phantom of the Opera
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Joseph Arsenault is mine; not much else is.
Author's Note: Thanks muchly to eclecticmuse for the damn slow beta.
Summary: Raoul takes Christine out to dinner for her birthday. Drama ensues.

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Eric and I are now back at home. We left New Orleans around noon on Thursday, stopped in Slidell for lunch (that was the nicest McDonald's I have ever seen), and poked around the Prime outlets in Gulfport (generally lame, but they did have Dippin Dots). Along the way we listened to Live 34 (indeed scary, only not in the way I thought it would be) ( Read more... )

Tell me I did not just find a CSI fic that features Ted Keegan in a guest appearance. And--*skims*--HOLY FUCKING SHIT the author killed Richard Warren Pugh! *keels over* That is SO not funny, considering Mr. Pugh DIED last year (granted this story predates that but still ( Read more... )

Thank you, Erin Stewart! Finally, I have the dates for the Phantom tour's visit to Birmingham! They are:

October 9 - November 4, 2007

*starts making plans directly*

...November 26th, that is. Back then, it was a Wednesday. Anyway. Nine years ago today, I saw The Phantom of the Opera for the very first time. Big life-changing event for me. I've been a giant huge fan ever since, I've run (and ran) websites I wouldn't have made otherwise, written stories I wouldn't have created otherwise, met some extremely ( Read more... )

Doing one of my occasional web searches in hopes of turning up something that Thomas James O'Leary has done lately, I came across what looks to have been a one-off Playbill bio for Sandra Joseph:

SANDRA JOSEPH (Christine Daaé) has played the role of Christine for over 1,200 performances, more than any other actress in the Broadway production. For ( Read more... )

From a Chicago Tribune review of the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera:

... Monsieur Reyer's big scene (yawn) is gone ...

Screw you too, bitch. Some of us happen to love that tyrant.

Jacksonville, Part Two: My Phantom stage door pictures ( Read more... )

Kicking off my recap of my trip to Jacksonville, Florida, here are some general observations on the touring cast of The Phantom of the Opera that I wrote for the Phansonline.net forum:

John Cudia (Phantom): I really enjoyed him. His acting was excellent, and while I thought he could have been more forceful in his delivery at times (i.e. "Damn you ( Read more... )