![]() I have never seen any footage from that musical after seeing the video but the melody stuck with me then. But when I saw the video of All I Ask of You with the divine Sarah Brightman and Cliff Richard back in 1986 and learned that it was from a stage musical, my curiosity got piqued. ![]() All I knew then of musicals were the old Rodgers and Hammerstein movie versions that we all used to watch when we were growing up. Phantom was always memorable for me as it began my re-discovery of musical theatre. Here I feel he still deserves love, but he needs someone who doesn't care if they might get a little abused or come home and find a dead body. ![]() I want to like him and have him win in the end of the movies/plays. I think that anyone who has seen the play or watch the movies might have a hard time connecting to this version (the original) of Erik. It is much too easy for him to choose the easiest/darkest choices (torture or killing) to obtain his goals. I want him to have a happy ending, but he is so broke. After reading the story, I found that he was much more intelligent and skilled, and his story was much more sorrowful. I thought of him more as a poor soul who was disfigured and deformed, a man with a poor lot in life. I had never read the book (before now), I had only seen the movies so I never really thought about Erik as a hideous beast. ![]() I want him to have a happy ending Our villain who was abused and used as a freak show attraction in a gypsy circus, finds it easy to inflict pain on others. Our villain who was abused and used as a freak show attraction in a gypsy circus, finds it easy to inflict pain on others.
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