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A new "Phantom Of The Opera" tour is coming: https://deadline.com/2024/11/phantom-of-the-opera-north-american-tour-1236164327/

I just saw it. It's excellent. I've been to a million theatrical performances and I honestly had no idea of the chaos that goes on backstage before and during a show, even while participating in quite a few myself (assuming my childhood dance recitals count). Terrific casting job at finding people who looked exactly like the actors.

This article showing some of the notes exchanged between John Wells and Michael Crichton during the show's early days; https://deadline.com/2024/09/er-tv-series-michael-crichton-memos-1236094390/

https://tvline.com/news/er-anniversary-george-clooney-julianna-margulies-doug-carol-1235331966/ I watched sporadically in Season 1 (I was devastated about Clooney's character on "Sisters" being killed off and couldn't bear to see him in anything else). Then I caught the promos for "Hell & High Water", decided to watch and was hooked ever since.

You know, you're right. I really hadn't thought about that. No wonder the remainder of that scene in "Sith" falls a little flat--Hayden can't quite pull it off as well as Prowse could.

That moment at the end of "Revenge Of The Sith" where you hear him as Darth Vader for the first time in 22 years is bone-chillingly spectacular. It's amazing how much a voice can make a character--there's clips on YouTube with him being voiced by the original actor and him being voiced by JEJ and the difference is stunning.

That moment in "Revenge Of The Sith"--"Lord Vader?" "YES?"--is bone-chilling and spectacular all at once. I still remember the entire theater gasping at it. Its amazing how no one cares about the guy who was in the costume, it's JEJ voice that made the character.

Someone posted footage of JEJ SPEAKING the National Anthem at the 1993 All Star Game. Magnificent doesn't begin to describe it.

Some poetic justice for Rebecca Cheptegei: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-partner-killed-ugandan-athlete-065054915.html

I saw a notification pop up on my phone, but I could only read "James Earl Jones. . ." My heart sank. I knew how old he was and what the news likely was and sure enough, my fears were confirmed. That VOICE. RIP.

I knew it would happen when I heard how badly she was burned, but it still crushed me to hear.

I didn't learn until watching the Paralympics yesterday that the actress playing Nessarose is also wheelchair-bound. I wonder how they'll do the scene where Elphaba gives her the power to walk again?

She was robbed of an Emmy that season.

I don't get it either. I thought she was fine before the stillbirth and afterwards, I think she sadly sunk into a deep depression that she was simply never able to pull herself out of even if she ever sought professional help. As someone who's battled depression since I was 10, I can completely empathize. Sometimes all the therapy in the world isn't enough.

Here's the link to the story. I think it's the third one from the beginning. https://m.fanfiction.net/s/142094/11/