“There’s a great site (that I’m sure many of your readers know) where the photographic efforts of our unnamed hero are posted a short while after each show at TTC.”

Thank you,
B

We agree heartily with your praise of our intrepid theater photog, oh let’s call him AB. He should be lauded and applauded.

The Phantom regrets an out-of-towner’s difficulty in identifying the characters, having not seen the show. However, using character names vs. real names is done to protect an innocent against insidious search engines that might expose them to (further) ridicule and subsequent embarrassment.

May The Phantom be so bold as to suggest that the kindly aforementioned AB post, along with the first names of the individuals he photographs, their character name as well?

The Phantom

I’d like to use your forum to sidebar for a moment and recognize a true friend to the BCS theatrical community, and point out a significant resource that may be useful to your readers. Because I know that your ouevre is founded on anonymity, I’m going to be as vaguely specific as I can be about this individual and will leave it up to you (and him) to post links and true identity (gasp!) if that’s what’s merited.

For those of us outside the viewing area, I’m often perplexed by your reviews, simply because of the fact that you can’t tell the players without a program. The refreshing influx of new talent on the BCS scene sometimes gives rise to a collective “hunh?” for those of us faithful readers that don’t get to actually see the shows.

There’s a great site (that I’m sure many of your readers know) where the photographic efforts of our unnamed hero are posted a short while after each show at TTC. I’m always pleased by the quality of the images, and it’s clear that a great deal of care and skill go into these photo shoots. It’s also significant that while you are gracious enough to refrain from using real names, our intrepid photographer displays only the first names of his subjects and does not list character names, making it quite fun to mix and match. For many of your reviews, I find it immensely entertaining to flip back and forth between his site and yours to see if I can figure out who is who.

While we’ve all seen some shows where the actors should be shot, this artist does a lot of the shooting at TTC, and is kind enough to display his work online for all to share. I’d really love it if he would venture out into the other area theatres to ply his trade and bring us shots of our favorite mugs at SC and NTA.

If you and he feel that it’s appropriate, let’s recognize this longtime friend to the BCS acting community for his excellent work (and for those of you who know our phaithful photog, tell him we say “PHThanks!”

Love, Harry

Keep put the phantastic work.

However, I’ve now gotta admit that you do make the occasional good point. I’ve seen some of the shows you’ve reviewed, and some of your observations seem reasonably astute to me. You’re still a sourpuss but you’ve got people talking, and right or wrong, you provide a good read. So thanks for an interesting year! Consider me a cautious Phan. And I wonder, if we’re all real nice to you, will you be nicer to us? If so, I wish you a happy and prosperous New Year!

*yawn*

Oh, and have a Merry Christmas y’all.