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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.

Adam Robert Lewis and Corinne Cowling in rehearsal. 

The Final Lair

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

Phantom at the 2006 Tony Awards.

“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