Disclaimer: I do not own Phantom of the Opera. I'll get over it. Also, I hate to disappoint, but I'm not really Erik. Shocking, yes, but no. I'm just your average, run-of-the-mill teenage phan girl.

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Dear Erik,

I'm in a pickle. I auditioned for a musical at the college rather on impulse.
Thinking through now, I have classes, a birthday coming up, and I desperately
am trying to get a job. Somehow I know I won't be able to balance all this at
once but would feel bad for bowing out of the musical. What's your opinion?

Anxiously waiting,
Punjab Princess

Dear Princess,

What a pickle indeed. You're right; it wouldn't be fair of you to drop out at this point. My suggestion to you is to sit down and work out a schedule. When do you have rehearsals? Classes? Leave time for homework everyday. You may feel like a nerd for doing so, but trust me, it will pay off.

-Erik

Dear Erik,
Thank you so much for answering my question. However, the moment after I sent
you my last question, I thought up a new question.
My school was once two schools: a high school and a junior high. Now it's a
huge high school connected by a long hallway called "The Tunnel".
Now, my school is populated mostly by stupid little people who think that its
trendy to STAND IN THE BLOODY MIDDLE OF THE TUNNEL AND REFUSE TO MOVE SO I CAN GET TO HISTORY.
Now, my friend, I've done everything to move this mental deficits. I've
screamed at them to move. I've pushed them. I've mocked them and laid in the
middle of the tunnel and screamed at the top of my lungs that I'm so trendy
and no one can get by because I'm so trendy.
THEY WILL NOT MOVE.
So, my dear Phantom... being that I am only 17 and have no access to weaponry
of any kind (except for a short and violent friend who has no more luck than I
in moving these buffoons), how do you suggest that I move these people?

Respectfully,

WanderingTeen

Dear Wandering,

With your friends, form a human chain and plow the "little people" down. Other than that, I honestly don't know what you can do, aside from what you've been doing.

-Erik

Dear Erik,
What do you think of the pairing of yourself and Meg Giry?

L.Giry

Dear Giry,

To be quite honest, I hardly know Meg. I'm sure she's a sweet girl, but we're only acquaintances. So as for how I feel about the pairing, I'm pretty neutral.

-Erik

Dear Erik,
Why didn't you just kill the fop when you first saw him with Christine?

-Phantomofthebasket

Dear Basket,

Because that would have been entirely too anticlimactic.

-Erik

Dear Erik,
Now that "The Phantom of the Opera" is the longest running Broadway musical
in history (which I have seen twice), how do you feel about it?

-PhantomKitten

Dear Kitten,

I suppose I'm ecstatic, aside from the fact that my life-story has been exploited (slightly inaccurately). But I suppose that Webber fellow knew a bit about music, once upon a time…

-Erik

Dear Erik,

How did you feel when, for the 2004 movie, they changed when you downed the
chandelier? Not to mention all the other changes in lyrics and the addition of
a chapel to the opera house?

-Lynandreth

Dear Lynandreth,

I didn't mind so terribly about the lyric changes and the addition of the chapel. I did, however, feel unnerved by the change of the chandelier drop. I mean, I liked it where I dropped it in the first place. Why must they change it?

-Erik

A/N: Sorry to cut the last one off so awkwardly, but I have an orchestra concert and wanted to get this posted before I left.