{"id":12487,"date":"2019-03-05T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:37:20","slug":"mom-and-wednesday-see-phantom-of-the-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=12487","title":{"rendered":"Mom and Wednesday See Phantom Of The Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daughter is obsessed with\u00a0The Phantom of The Opera<\/em>. I don’t know why. Obviously, some of this is due to her constant involvement in community theater (next Friday marks her fourth show\u00a0this season<\/em>), but I’d be lying if I said she\u00a0only just found Phandom. When she was three, one of her Christmas presents was a set of Phantom-themed felt hand puppets (Christine, Raoul, and The Phantom). She’s been into this since she was a toddler.<\/p>\n

Last year, I was lucky enough to give her an even better Christmas present: front row tickets to the national touring company of Phantom,\u00a0<\/em>which stopped in Kalamazoo in February.<\/p>\n

I mean, front row tickets to the\u00a0matinee<\/em>. I don’t have front-row-at-7-p.m.-money. I’m not the Monopoly man.<\/p>\n

Now, this Christmas present was really the ultimate sacrifice, as I knew that I would be the one who had to take her to the show. And I am not hugely enthusiastic about\u00a0Phantom<\/em>. Especially not when the movie is on a near constant loop in my home. But it was worth it all to hear her biting criticisms of the performers.<\/p>\n

Since it’s been a while since she was on my YouTube channel (as she has reminded me countless times), I was happy to collaborate on this video with her, in which we discuss the cool parts and the weird parts and whether or not Gerry Butler was a good Phantom.<\/p>\n

Spoiler: we are hotly divided on that.<\/p>\n

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