Recently a friend gifted me a stage used prop newspaper from Phantom of the Opera West End. As we were chatting we thought to look up the dates and newspapers in the archives, and turns out, the prop uses scans from actual newspapers from France!
There were eight unique pages, and some repeat filler pages. I've scanned each of the eight unique pages and added an image of their corresponding historical equivalent. Links to the archives where I found the historical newspapers are also included.
Left is my scans of the prop newspaper, right is scans taken from French newspaper archives.
Le Figaro was the first page. It was a bit tricky to find because the date on the prop has had the year changed and reads "Lundi 29 Novembre 1900" while the newspaper in the archives is "Lundi 29 Novembre 1897"
I found them because the issue number is the same on both.
The stories are mostly the same, with the exception of the block of handwritten text on the archive copy which has been replaced on the prop with random excerpts from other articles, like the one about the Austrian Parliament on the same page.
Source: BnF
L'Éclair makes up the second page of the newspaper and the second to last page. Both pages are pretty much exact copies of the first and second pages of the newspaper from the archive on June 21st, 1900.
Souce: RetroNews
L'Événement makes up the third page and third from last page and is the last title page included in the newspaper. Like L'Éclair, this one seems to be pretty much an exact copy of the first and last pages of the real archived paper from March 23rd, 1887.
Source: BnF
The rest of the middle newspaper pages are all copies of the same two pages. These two pages took me forever to find because there is no newspaper title on them. I had given up and assumed they were assembled together from other newspapers until over a week later by sheer luck I found them in another archive. They're from a newspaper from Grenoble called L'Impartial Dauphinois on November 24, 1883.
The bottom lines of the articles on this page of the prop are cut off, but otherwise it's an exact match.
Source: Lectura
This is the second page of Le Figaro which serves as the last page of the newspaper. This page gave me a massive headache as well because it's not from the same issue of Le Figaro as the one above. I was able to find some of the ads on it but not a replica. It wasn't until I finally located the inner pages that I found it as well. Turns out it's the last page from the November 24, 1883 issue of L'Impartial Dauphinois with Le Figaro added to the top of the page.
Source: Lectura
Huge shout out to the French newspaper archives for not only preserving these papers and digitizing them, but also for making them searchable by text and hosting them publicly for people around the world to see and use.
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The MANAGERS, or otherwise known by staff, the F. A. N. organization. Only one aware of their real names is the Axolotl and Johnson.
The MANAGERS are three gender-less triplets from a dimension so small and forgotten that blood had to be drawn to identify their species. Manager A, the usual leader of the three, illegally broke them out of their dimension and immediately went to work at The Theraprism.
The three immediately worked on the trials needed to be taken to become an employee and worked their way up the ranks rapidly to head managers of the Level 5 zone of the Theraprism.
They has their eyes on Steve soon before Johnson escaped his position. With their best wrangler gone, they needed a new one.
No matter what it took.
Personalities:
F: Youngest triplet, most seen nervous and has an incredible amount of empathy. Always listens to Manager A, no matter what they're asked. They assisted in helping Johnson escaped, got in trouble for it, and hasn't disobeyed Manager A since.
A. Oldest triplet, gets a sick sense of joy when things go their way. Did whatever it took to get his employees working, and doesn't care how they're doing or how it would affect them. If it doesn't hurt them and their siblings reputation, they could care less.
N. Middle triplet. Complete suck-up. Basically exactly like Level A except they don't feel any glee hurting employees or patients. Doesn't feel anything about anything they do. They are protective over F, though.
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