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"Christine, I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... You alone can make my song take flight... It's over now, the music of the night."

From Ted Keegan and Julia Udine's final.

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An interesting moment from POTO Vienna that I’d never caught before! After the Phantom disappears through the trapdoor in Masquerade, everybody runs over to try and find him.

Nicholas Saverine, Vienna, 1992

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It's over now, the music of the night. Laird Mackintosh, April 16, 2023. [X]

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Adam Robert Lewis and Corinne Cowling in rehearsal. 

2019, London (x)

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I don’t think I’ve seen this one before! Hugh Panaro (left) and Ted Kegan (right). From Hugh’s Instagram (x)

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The Final Lair

Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Emilie Kouatchou, Bronson Norris Murphy (u/s)

August 10, 2022; Broadway

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Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you...

Ted Keegan as the Phantom, on the US Tour in 2000 (Left) and over twenty years later on Broadway (Right)! 

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Michael Crawford on Bootlegs (Jan. 24, 2018):

Yes, I found the other day on YouTube, a video that started in the Final Lair to the end of the show. It was - oh my gosh, it was so - it was extraordinary to watch. Because you just remembered, all the memories of doing it came back, not what the performance was, it was - I remember that move, I remember, yes, how I felt sitting in that position, and trying to make sure that the cloth didn't hit the mike and scratch it, so it would interfere with the sound quality. It was quite complicated when you first put that cloak on for Past the Point of No Return, towards the end.

Yes, I so wish that a video recording of the whole thing would have been made. Surely, that's my greatest regret is that we never got that. We were never able to have a recording of the entire show done.

“Except at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts where it's been captured”.

Yes. I've got to try and be a Professor or something before I can see it. 

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Some clips of Jason Mills and Sara Jean Ford in the US Tour of Phantom. Not too much of Jason out there! From 2007.

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Another throwback. Curtain call from Dave Willett’s first night as the Phantom.  October 12, 1987, London. (x)

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An early London soundboard of the Summer 1988 cast (Dave Willetts, Jan Hartley-Morris, Michael Ball). Here, You Alone ... of the Final Lair.

I can’t really describe it, but somehow the chords after “night” seem so magical compared to some of the newer orchestrations. The tempo also seems a bit unique. Whether that’s actually true or it’s due to a warped casette, it’s still wonderful to hear!

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Cool picture of Hal Prince watching a video of Michael Crawford in Phantom! (x)

I wonder if it’s the video from the Lincoln Center Archives

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I’m not sure if I’ve seen these before!

Scott Davies and Harriet Jones, West End Live 2015. Photos by Roy Tan for Musical Theatre Review. (x)

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1400 Followers Audio Gifts!

To thank you all for following me, being so wonderful, and just surviving a pandemic, here are some gifts from me!

I know I originally said I was going to do 10, but I got a good amount of requests and wanted to add in a few extra favorite audios of mine too. So you get 20! Sorry if I did not post your request; there were many!

If any need to be taken down, do let me know!

Here is the link to all of the audios, cast info is below!

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/a3xda9hu7mu3u/Gifts

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Phantom at the 2006 Tony Awards.

Howard McGillin (and Jennifer Hope Wills) in a very ... underwhelming rendition of Music of the Night.

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Here’s one of my favorite clips of Scott Davies in the title song from Phantom. Notice the slightly altered first line: “Sing for me my angel” (without “of music”) and how he goes absolutely nuts on that third “sing for me!”

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“Anybody who plays this role, if they say to you, ‘Oh, I never bothered looking at Crawford’, they’re lying. It’s his role — I’m renting it from him at the moment, but it’s his role. It always will be” -Jonathan Roxmouth

Michael Crawford (Left) and Jonathan Roxmouth (Right) in the final lair.