#CorbyjaneWatches #Phantom25

I always say I'll add to this later but I never do. So we'll see I guess.


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What a beautiful sunny day in London for #Phantom25 - Happy October, and happy anniversary #PhantomOfTheOpera! #POTO25



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Yes. I am extremely excited and I cannot lie. #Phantom25



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Who's on their way to see the LIVE #Phantom25 screening in cinemas?! #POTO25


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US! WE ARE!!!!! #Phantom25





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"lets bet on how many ppl will be in the theatre, i think 6." "10." one. :(

Three joined us before the show started. Counting ourselves, we ended the show with a totally of seven. The age gap between them and myself was approximately 30 years.






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Salinas people are uncultured hacks. :(




It was amazing. I know some people who don't think Sierra is that great of an actress and I'm not a great acting critic, but she sings phenomenally and dances terrifically, and that's really all I care about because I'm an opera singer. The costumes were of course brilliant, being the original Maria Bjornsen ones.

somuchbetter88 corbyjane
THEY DIDNT DROP THE CHANDELIER WTF




The technical stuff was... a little interesting. A lot of the things that made Phantom so groundbreaking were just gone. The underground lake bit was stripped bare and shortened, they didn't drop the chandelier, all sets bare minimum pieces with the bulk of the scene being projected onto screens which I'm sure looked totally epic in real life but didn't translate as well over film. Thankfully I'm more interested in the music and costumes, and those were left in tact.

somuchbetter88 corbyjane
But other than that holy crap this is amazing.

somuchbetter88 corbyjane
And im so tired im almost watching it like a normal person, analysis free. ALMOST.

It's been harder for me to go to shows lately because I think about them too much. I analyse the singing techniques, I analyse the costumes, I wonder if they're layering for quickchanges and when they're offstage I can imagine what exactly they're changing into and how long it's going to take them and whether they have time to use the bathroom, and I listen to the orchestra and it's not even just that I can hear when someone is wrong, it's just that I can hear ALL of them, every single part all together and how they blend and what chords they're making and it just gets really really overwhelming and just a sensory overload and I'm exhausted at the end of the show, as you might imagine. Stupid music degree, and such.

Also. They tweaked the finale a bit so it jives less with LND. Which... makes more sense, now. And I giggled, a little.


AND THEN IT WAS SO COOL SARAH BRIGHTMAN WAS THERE AND MICHAEL CRAWFORD AND COLM WILKINSON AND ALL THESE PEOPLE OMG SO COOL.

Go see it. It rocks.

People agree with me. Check it out.

Tomorrow...

I am seeing the live broadcast of the Phantom of the Opera LIVE Anniversary at Northridge Cinema at 11am. It is available in many theatres across the country. You can find locations or purchase tickets here. As it is being live broadcast from the UK times will of course vary by location.

Tickets are available at Fandango or at the door.

You should go.

If you don't go, you are a sad excuse for a human being and I hope you cry yourself to sleep tomorrow night knowing that.

Need a Halloween costume? How about a custom-made one?

I'm just gonna throw this out there...

 

My record in stellar costuming/general sewing speaks for itself, and if you follow me in FB or twitter you know that's barely even a smidgen of the costumes I've created. This fall I am available to create or modify your Halloween costume. 

Need ideas? You (or your daughter) could be: 

Alice in Wonderland (Disney or Classic)

A Hogwarts student (robes and uniform)

Rapunzel

Glinda from Wicked (the bubble gown might be a little crazy for trick-or-treating, but how about her Popular dress?)

If creating a costume: you cover the costs of all materials and flat, pre-determined price of labour. If modifying an existing costume, only the labour will need to be paid. 

Interested? Please email me at [corbyjane] @gmail.com, DM me on Twitter, or msg me on FB!

You're Welcome

We all know Anna, right? Or Pinkscarf? She's known to many on her blog and more on twitter and more on youtube. She's got a great Disney princess type voice and is a pleasure to listen to etc etc yada yada?

Well. She wrote a song. This is the rough cut and she plans on posting a vid of herself actually playing and singing soon. But it's pretty darn awesome and you should all listen to it! It's been stuck in my head all day!

Remember Aromaleigh?

This will be crossposted to T&S but I want to make sure the word gets out. AROMALEIGH IS BACK ISH.
Kristen is selling off remaining stock at Dormant Dream. Looks like she's got Mythos, Spells, Wonderstruck, and Astronomical. You can see my swatches of the first three on T&S: Spells!, Mythos, Wonderstruck.

See all my Aromaleigh looks here.

Facing the ugly truth (dun dun DUUUUN)

I've been in denial for almost two weeks, but I'm going to work on acceptance now. Well, actually anger but eventually we'll get to acceptance, I'm sure.

My camera was stolen. My eight-year-old best friend of a camera. I thought it would turn up, but no luck so far.

(My camera Doc, modeled by the beautiful Niki Moon)

Embarrassingly enough, it had half a vlog on it. And, oh yeah, a bunch of pictures from the last three weeks. It was sitting on top of a turquoise notebook labeled "CORBYJANE'S NOTEBOOK" next to four water bottles labeled "CORBYJANE'S" with turquoise duct tape. It is pretty unmistakeably Corbyjane's camera. It disappeared some time between Saturday night August 20th and Monday afternoon August 22nd. But most likely it was taken Saturday night.

It is this type of camera: Fujifilm Finepix S3200
I think it's sad that I paid so much for it in 2004 and it's available for $60 now, but at least I can buy a replacement relatively cheaply. If it doesn't turn up.

Dear Person Who Stole My Camera: 
I wish you'd broken into my home and stolen it, rather than taken it from the one place I thought I was safe. 


I know I must know you. There aren't words for how hurt I am. 


I'm sorry that you missed the entire point of the past three months. 


And if this is all a big misunderstanding, I promise there will be no questions asked. Just lots of forgiveness and glitter. 
<3 Corbyjane

Blah blah first day of school

News: I got into Soc 1 online. Which will negate needing to take "Why We White People Are Screwing Up the World", thankfully.

8am: Music Appreciation. Not going to suck. I've taken from Prof Koza before, he's awesome. And easy. And he loves Renee Fleming, which makes him a-okay in my book.


9am: Sociology of Minority Relations. I sat between two very cute boys in the back and we ignored everything Strayer was saying for the entire hour and it was very nice. And then I dropped the class. (Strayer... makes me sick to my stomach. I strongly dislike him as a teacher and feel like I'd dislike him as a person if I knew him personally. This is my third attempt at a class with him, I've never lasted longer than two weeks)

10am: Choir. Apparently I need this to graduate. I have a lot of friends in choir and this is awesome. But I miss professional choir-ing and performing and this is really amateur in comparison. But I only need a semester of this, so I will suck it up and have fun with Jaemen and Niki.

11am: Chambers. Slightly less sucky than choir in that it's by audition. I had my very first ever bad vocal audition: she had me sight-sing after singing in minor and I couldn't shift to major, and in trying to do so kept sharping. Embarrassing but eh. The audition was a formality to begin with.

1.30pm: Piano. Uhm... whoa. Okay. So the teacher (who didn't even show up to the final last year, btw) had me play for the class with about five minutes warning. I played the best song I know off the top of my head ("On Top of Old Smokey") as well as I could, and she said, "Corbyjane... she didn't pay attention in my class. And you can tell." to the other students. This teacher also once asked if the reason I kept missing class was because I "had a baby in there." (NO, OKAY??? I just like empire waisted tops because they are COMFORTABLE!!!)

Tomorrow is harmony and musicianship. It'll rock.