Crying over Erik

me, an intellectual:

OK BUT THUSSS?

Like I've seen the post about how BCraw lied about never trying to make the Phantom sexy with all the receipts of him doing sexy mannerisms. But they were all very stock Phantomisms. He didn't do anything revolutionary that I can recall, or that at least had a personal stamp of sensuality like, say

Brad Little

Scott Davies

Ian Jon Bourg

Thomas Ambt Kofod

Tim Martin Gleason

Ethan Freeman

Or any NUMBER of the things that Hugh Panaro did over his run.

Give me something, ANYTHING to indicate that you connect on some emotional level with your character, sir. You know, like an Actor is supposed to do.

I felt nothing in his final lair. Strange that seeing it live, perhaps the only time I'll ever see it live, is the only time "It's over now, the music of the night~" hasn't completely ruined me for the rest of the day. Because I didn't feel anything hearing Crawford sing it. It didn't look to me like a man saying goodbye to his hopes of love and companionship. To his muse. To the only woman who's ever shown him care and compassion.

It looked like an actor with an inflated opinion of his own importance having a spotlight moment.

the crowd boos, saying that him being ugly was a plot point. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.