The Rehearsal (1877) By Edgar Degas

By request, a Gary Mauer final-lair kiss. With Marie Danvers in 2006.

Earl Carpenter

Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you

@whynotraisealittlehell

All final Broadway Phantoms, the kiss.

Gaaaaaah that first gif is literally a permanent fixture in my brain.

earl

“Everyone saw in my face evil traits that I didn’t possess. But they assumed I did, and so they developed. I was modest, and was accused of being deceitful: I became secretive. I had a strong sense of good and evil; instead of kindness I received nothing but insults, so I grew resentful. I was gloomy, other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them, but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, so I learned to hate. My colorless youth was spent in a struggle with myself and with the world. Fearing mockery, I buried my best feelings at the bottom of my heart: there they died.”

— Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (trans. Vladimir Nabokov)

SCREAMING.

thinking about that video of hugh panaro being a slut just about about the normal amount!!!! and had to do something about it

Look, I'm very excited to see Jordan Donica in the Gilded Age, but all I know is THIS BETTER NOT INTERFERE WITH MY DARKEST DREAMS OF HIM PLAYING THE PHANTOM FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR. Listen to the voice. Look at the hands. Imagine the pants!! This man was made to play the Phantom. He is the second coming of Davis Gaines or Howard McGillan in the making.

Whoever is in charge...whoever I need to contact, petition, or pray to...MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

Tess (1979)

#oh boy #i forgive Ramin for so much based on how he acted out this one moment