2012 Asian Tour Pictures

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Live for the One I Love Music Video

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This is a Music Video of Tina Arena singing “Live from the One I Love.” Which is   the English version of Vivre. Arena played Esmeralda in the first London  cast.  This video reminds me so much of Jim Henson’s 1986 movie The Labyrinth.  She sings it in a Labyrinth  and there is a white owl.

However this may have be a connect to Notre Dame de Chartes which has a Labyrinth and Chartes is considered the Seat of Mary, as it’s believed that her veil is housed there.  Also all the water imagery relates to Mary too.

Or it could that a labyrinth stands for  the singer being trapped and lost without it being a apparent that the song is from a musical.

For the most the video is kind of cheesy with its blues tones, CGs, weird overlays,  weird cross fades and odd costumes. However despite the clunky lyrics, Arena sounds great.

What do Notre Dame de Paris and Phantom of the Opera Musical have in Common?

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Shirel as Esmeralda in the Red with Laurent Ban as Phoesbus Notre Dame de Paris 2001 French Cast picture image

Shirel as Esmeralda in the Red with Laurent Ban as Phoesbus Notre Dame de Paris 2001 French Cast

Answer Laurent Ban. Ban played Phoebus in 2001 Morgdor Cast, 2005 Asian tour cast and in the 2005 cast in France. He also dubbed the Phantom in the 2004 movie version of the Phantom of the Opera in Frnech.

Laurent Ban singing Dechire in a 2005 performance of Notre Dame de Paris

 

Bonus – Cecilia Cara dubbed Christine Daae in french and she played Juliette along side Damien Sargue in Romeo et Juliette. Sargue was an understudy in the original cast for Gringoire and Pheobus

More Asian Tour Pictures

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Engulfed – A Notre Dame de Paris Music Video

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9sGvHvCBY

So I wanted to make an Notre Dame de Paris AMV with an anime but nothing panned out so I decided to use Notre Dame de Paris using an anime song. I used the song from Trinity Blood which is called Dress by Buck-tick, though it’s not the full song.

Trinity Blood is about more or less about a Vampire priest.

The Lyrics

In front of the mirror, I nap with you; your light red fingertips
Your hands unexpectedly showed your weakness and shut your lips
On that day, I exchanged promises with you
Now we can’t recall them

Why don’t I have wings for floating in that sky, like the wind, like the clouds; Why?
Don’t I have wings for sinking into that night, that wraps everything like the stars, like the moon? Ah

 

Fan-Art Friday Pokemon Edition

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This weekend is Otakon, which is the largest Anime Convention on the East Coast of the USA (and I’m attending), I though this Fan-art Friday I would use Pokemon in the Belle staging (with some liberties) from Notre Dame de Paris.

Pokemon performing Belle Notre dame de Paris picture image

Pokemon performing Belle Notre dame de Paris made by me

Esmeralda – Bellossom
Quasimodo – Snubbull
Frollo – Gengar
Phoebus – Rapidash