Forever In Search Of my Muse

~~~~ This has gone beyond having a song stuck in my head. i have the whole musical for The Phantom of the Opera stuck in my head. It just keeps running over and over through my thoughts. i will catch myself singing it while i am on hold with a customer or while the phone is ringing and i waiting for them to answer. i even had one of them ask me what i was singing because they heard me when they picked up the phone. i have set parts of the lyrics to different songs as what i am thinking about on my facebook page and everything.

~~~~ i watched the newer version of the movie staring Gerard Butler as The Phantom and Emmy Rossum as Christine Daae not to long ago. Then i saw a special on the Ovation channel about the making of The Phantom of the Opera. Maybe this is why it is now stuck in my head the way that it is.

~~~~ i have several versions of the sound track for the Stage Play as well as the movie, and then some Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber compilation Cd's that have many of the songs from The Phantom of the Opera on them. i own and have read a book Unmasqued: an Erotic Novel of The Phantom of the Opera by Colette Gale. For all of you who thought that Christine should have stayed with Eric this is the book for you. Well that and if you like very highly erotic books. As well as owning and having read the original book by Gaston Leroux and have seen the silent version of the movie staring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Norman Kerry. i have had the great privilege of seeing The Phantom of the Opera on stage while i lived in Ohio years ago and would love, love ,love to see it again on stage here in Chicago. i even remember the marching band for my high school back in Ohio preforming music from the stage play for our halftime show. An old friend of mine and i used to listen to and sign along with the soundtrack as we cleaned the church that i used to belong to in Ohio as well.

~~~~ i guess you could say i have always loved The Phantom of the Opera. i used to have snow globes and music boxes with The Phantom of the Opera but i no longer have those. They were packed away long before i left my estranged husband and they got left with him when i moved out because i did not know where they were. Or how i would be able to take them all with me without them breaking. Maybe one day i will start my collection again but i know i will never have some of the things that i had before because they were from The San Fransisco Music Box Company and they have long since closed. i might find some of them on E-Bay or Amazon and if i am really lucky at garage sales but i am sure i will never find all of them again.