Chaos reigns at the Opera Garnier! Christine is missing! The managers are nowhere to be found! The police are en route! Chapters 15 and 16 of "The Phantom of the Opera" are full of employees trying to find answers while poor Raoul looks for his girlfriend in the tunnels of the opera house. We check in with Cara about Broadway closing and Kristin recaps what 1997 Kristin went through when San Francisco Phantom closed back in the day. Enjoy!

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Intro: BJ Harrison Audio

Intro: Arrested Development Lucille "Good for Her"

Last Chandelier Lift

San Francisco Article about closing (1998)

Last Public Show Standing Ovation

Miss Vanjie Exit.....Miss Vanjie

Coming to you LIVE and IN PERSON, Cara and Kristin do a LIVE REACT to the most famous (arguably) chapters of the book: Chapter 13 "Apollo's Lyre" and Chapter 14 "A Masterstroke from the King of Traps." We listen to BJ Harrison's audiobook version of Texiera de Mattos' English translation of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera.

If you like canned wine and broads saying "wow, that's hot" about a man who lives in the cellars of an opera house, this bonus episode is for you!

Our regularly planned, organized version of our Chapter 13/14 discussion will be out on Sunday, 4/23! Thank you for your patience as we mourn the closing of Phantom on Broadway and generally try to get our lives together!

It's Rik Hours, baby! Cara and Kristin jump into Chapter 11 and 12 of "The Phantom of the Opera!" Christine desperately tries to have her cake and eat it too when she tells Raoul to "Forget the Name of the Man with the Voice." Raoul addresses the whole "hey you disappeared through a mirror" thing and Christine attempts to protect her poor mother from realizing her daughter may be in imminent danger. Will Christine be able to keep her opera ghost happy AND protect her boyfriend from a terrible death? Find out this week!

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⁠⁠Opening: Audiobook narr. by Christopher Lee⁠

⁠Opening: Tom and Greg from Succession

Yeston Kopit Phantom

Call your Ubers and join Cara and Kristin as we investigate Chapter 9 and 10 of "The Phantom of the Opera!" We read the famous chapter that inspired the "Masquerade" scene in the musical and take a ride through the Bois de Bologne. Poor Raoul is trying to puzzle out impossible questions, such as: Who is the man driving this "Mysterious Carriage?" Who could POSSIBLY be the man in the Red Death costume at the masquerade ball? WHO is the man Raoul can't stop thinking about?

We bet you can't figure out the answer!

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⁠Opening: Audiobook narr. by Christopher Lee

Opening: Boots the house down

Alan Cumming's Fragrance

Viktor and Rolf Slogan Gowns

Wafflehouse Employee Deflects Chair

Hey, has anyone seen a horse anywhere? 

Sit down with a Sprite n' Rosé cocktail from the Majestic Theater and join Cara and Kristin as we explore Chapter 7 and 8 of "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. We check in with how Cara's mental health is doing after seeing the 35th anniversary on Broadway, make sure Raoul is cool after That Thing happened in the graveyard, and watch Carlotta's "Get Ready with Me" as she prepares for her star turn at the Opera. Surely, nothing could go wrong, right? Right?? 

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Opening: Audiobook narr. by Christopher Lee

Opening: Wanda Says "Run" in Multiverse of Madness

Emilie Kouatchou singing "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" 

Toad Wikipedia page

IT'S THE BIG ONE! Cara and Kristin climb a mountain of skulls Scooby-Doo style to oversee Chapter 6: "The Magic Violin." 

We follow original train-boy Raoul to Perros-Guirec to figure out what, exactly, is going on with Miss Christine Daae, we learn more about Daddy Daae, and Christine and Raoul invent The Midnight Society. Are YOU afraid of the dark? 

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Opening: Audiobook narr. by Christopher Lee

Opening: Patrick Page does a dramatic reading of the Spiderman theme

"Queen of the Night" from Amadeus

This week, we visit the beleaguered and weary staff of the Paris Opera to try to get to the bottom of all this Phantom nonsense! 

Kristin and Cara watch the poor managers deal with Rik's list of names in red underlined, grapple with the repercussions of not paying him $240,000 francs a year, and continue to underpay their interns. 

We dare ask the question: who at the Paris Opera ISN'T quiet quitting at this point?

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Opening: Audiobook narr. by Christopher Lee

Opening: The Ronnie Letter

What is Deuxmoi

We're back with Chapter 2 and 3 of Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera" recap! We finally meet Christine THEE Daae, a very entitled viscount, and of course, the Phantom! Kristin joins Cara LIVE and IN PERSON to talk about the discourse on Christine's canonical age, how much WAS 20,000 francs a month, and what cocktails the old managers are drinking on their vacation.

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Opening: Audiobook narr. by Christopher Lee

Opening: Keke Palmer "I'm sorry to this man" 

How much is $20,000 francs today? Reddit thread

We've arrived! Join Cara and Kristin as we dive into the beginning of "The Phantom of the Opera" (1909). We talk about the banger that is "The opera ghost really existed," our herstory with Phantom in all its iterations, debate the existence of Clown Erik, check in with Abby Lee Miller and the dance children of the Opera Garnier, and cry about the Broadway show closing. Check us out!! 

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If you're following along at home, we're using the David Coward translation, but any translation works

The opening to this episode is Christopher Lee introducing the 1925 Phantom Film

Link to Coward Translation 

Blog doing Phantom daily 

Paris Commune

Beyonce singing Phantom at the 2005 Academy Awards