Musical The Phantom of the Opera was my entry into the world of stage where it’s been a lifelong love affair. The score and songs remain excellent to this day but once I got older I realized how sus the entire story was haha. Everyone loved the Phantom over lame Raoul but honestly the former was basically groomer/kidnapper. Anyhoo, the South Korean stage is doing a revival in 2023 starring actor Jo Seung Woo, who is as famous as stage as he is in dramas/film. The promos are out and I both swooned at his uber handsome Phantom but also LOL’d at how his Phantom is not massively disfigured. Like, he just looks like a bad boy dude living under the opera house rather than a grotesque figure of pain and pride. I guess the whole he’s so ugly he can’t see the light of day part will just be imagined heh.
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