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I've recently discovered a new level of boredom. Aside from hunting down a job and one independent study class, there is nothing to do. Nothing except get out the pens and pencils I got at Christmas. Luckily I'm feeling creative.

So I've known about the coming sequel to ALW's Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, for a while.  Unfortunately, short of selling a kidney, there's no way for me to go the London to see it.  Am I upset?  A little, but I'm also strangely accepting of the limitations of my extremely limited budget. So to compensate and try to get it out of my system, the Phantom is probably going to be my new muse and artistic subject for a while.  Of course, that's not exactly a bad thing given how much I love the book, musical, and many other adaptations.

Isn't it weird how many film and TV versions of Dracula there are, and how very few (if any) actually are a close adaptation of the book?  They always change something in the plot. Nosferatu, Bram Stoker's Dracula, the one with Frank Langella, the one with Marc Warren, I could go on. And why does the Count always lose when we feel no sympathy for those trying to destroy him? It can get so depressing. But accuracy aside, which is the best? As it is a matter of opinion, and my own opinion is the most important (to me), I think the best version of Dracula is the musical Dracula: Entre l'Amour et la Mort. It doesn't keep to the book's plot at al