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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRHgxviZJk

Apparently this was an Internet sensation nine or ten years ago; it's a little bit 'dog walking on its hind legs' for me (the impressive thing is not how well he can sing Christine/Phantom, but that he can sing both roles at all, even if neither is really comfortable), but half the entertainment lies in watching the 'greyed-out' characters reacting to the performance of the currently-featured singer. He does a doe-eyed Christine and a supremely arrogant Phantom (I get the feeling Nick Pitera is not an E/C shipper!)

Raoul spends most of the performance looking worried (and occasionally exchanging a confused glance with Christine), but in fact Nick's voice probably suits this role best -- he's a little lacking in the low notes, but that's less important than when playing the Phantom, while the singer can let his natural light voice ring without needing to go into falsetto.

Perhaps it's unsurprising that he also makes a pretty good Marius in his "One-Man Les Mis" compilation...
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Partial-dress performance (the performers get a gesture at costume; Raoul's coat and Christine's cape).



Bastien is the most delightful Raoul; Read more... )
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This is a story about a disfigured man who falls in love with a blind woman.

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Because who can resist an adorable Jack Russell terrier as Raoul?
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I didn't see the whole 2004 movie, but I heard there was a sword fight in it, so off to YouTube I went.


Why did we get that, and not the Phantom throwing fireballs like in the stage show? Did they not have what they needed for the fireball-throwing? Were they unable to film it? Or did they decide a sword fight was cooler?

I know very little about fencing and nothing about filming, and even I know that is NOT how you film a sword fight. *headdesk*

Christine's expression is all "WTF?" I sympathize.

Apparently Patrick Wilson did the whole thing without a stunt double. You know. Just in case I needed any more reasons to love Raoul.

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This is largely an experiment to see whether (a) I can post to a community other than my own home page on Dreamwidth and (b) whether I can manually embed a video into a page.

It's a link to Raoul is a Hero on YouTube -- with some very clever matching of lyrics and movie footage!

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