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Jan 26, 2017 · Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running Broadway show in history, celebrates its 29th anniversary January 26, 2017.Look back at the men who have donned the famous mask over the years. Fifteen ...
Aug 10, 2019 · Earlier this year, on April 22, The Phantom of the Opera, reached a milestone that no other Broadway show has even come near.Phantom, the longest-running show in Broadway history, became the first ...
- There Have Been 52 Leading Actors.
- Emilie Kouatchou Is The First Black Actress to Play Christine.
- Broadway’s First Black Phantom Was Norm Lewis.
- Michael Crawford Prepared For The Wrong Part Before His Audition.
- A British Rocker Almost Played The Phantom.
- Howard Mcgillin Is The Longest-Running Phantom.
- This Cast Member Set A World Record For Most performances.
- Hamilton Led The Way For A More Diverse Phantom Cast.
- Two Phantom Actors Had Wardrobe Malfunctions.
- One Phantom and Christine Pair Tied The Knot.
In total, 16 actorshave portrayed the titular Phantom on Broadway, while 36 actors have played Christine Daaé. Michael Crawford originated the role of the Phantom in 1988, winning the Tony Award for his performance. Sarah Brightman first portrayed Christine. The celebrated soprano was married to Andrew Lloyd Webber at the time.
Emilie Kouatchou, who plays the current and final incarnation of Christine Daaé on Broadway, made history as the first Black actor to play the part. She began as an alternatewhen the show reopened after the COVID-19 pandemic closures in the fall of 2021 and was promoted to the full-time role in January 2022. “Phantom was the first show I ever saw o...
Seven years before Kouatchou joined the cast, Norm Lewis was the first Black actorto play the Phantom on Broadway, joining the cast in May 2014. Robert Guillaume was the first Black man to play the role in any production, having succeeded Michael Crawford in the part in a Los Angeles production in 1990. “Andrew Lloyd Webber even said that this is a...
When Webber first approached Crawford about The Phantom of the Opera, Crawford assumed he would be auditioning for the part of Raoul, the clean-cut nobleman who also vies for Christine’s affections. Crawford spent a year studying Nelson Eddy’s portrayal as Raoul in the 1943 film adaptation of Phantombefore realizing Steve Barton had already been ca...
While developing the show, Webber wrote the title song “Phantom of the Opera” as a pop single and created a music video featuring Brightman as Christine and British rock star Steve Harley as the Phantom. Harley was favored to play the lead role on Broadway, but the music video was seen as over-the-top, and the producers feared Harley didn’t have th...
Nobody has played the Phantom more often than Howard McGillin. With more than 2,500 performances, he holds the record for playing the title role on Broadway. He was playing the role when Phantom broke the record for the longest-running Broadway production in 2006. “It was exhausting, because he’s such a maniac, but it was a thrill to sing that musi...
Although McGillin has played the Phantom the most often, he doesn’t even come close to having appeared in the most Phantom of the Opera productions. That honor belongs to George Lee Andrews, who played the supporting role of opera house co-owner Monsieur André an incredible 9,382 times over 23 yearsbefore departing from the role in 2011. He holds t...
Ali Ewoldt, who is of Filipino descent, was the first Asian American and first woman of color to play Christine Daaé. By the time she joined the cast in 2016, she was already a veteran stage actor and singer, having made her Broadway debut as Cosette in the Les Misérables revival in 2006. She also performed in national tours of The King and I and W...
Although the Phantom wears his iconic white mask for most of the musical, he is dramatically unmasked at several points in the show, revealing a hideously disfigured face. The makeup for these scenes has led to some memorable mistakes in the past: Two different Phantom actors—Crawford and Hugh Panaro—have gotten their lip prosthetics stuck to the a...
Gary Mauer and Elizabeth Southard, who have played the Phantom and Christine several times together during the show’s United States tours, are married to each otherin real life. Mauer had played Raoul on Broadway as well, and Southard was a Christine understudy and played other minor roles alongside him. They have two children together.
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Sep 29, 2022 · The Phantom of the Opera, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe, is the longest-running Broadway show of all time. This musical has appealed to theatregoers for over three decades, but after a record-breaking run that will go down in history, the music of the night will soon play for the last time when the show closes in ...
By Adam Hetrick. In honor of the official anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera opening 30 years ago on Broadway, here are 30 little known facts about the historic show: The New York production ...
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The Phantom of the Opera was the longest running show in Broadway history, and celebrated its 10,000th performance on February 11, 2012, becoming the first Broadway production in history to do so. It is the second longest-running West End musical , after Les Misérables , and the third longest-running West End show overall, after The Mousetrap .
Jan 26, 2020 · Since 1988, The Phantom of the Opera has amazed Broadway fans with its mix of romance, melodrama, suspense and vocal acrobatics. Phantom celebrates its 32nd anniversary on Broadway on January 26 ...
