Christine Fan

I thought I would do a post explain what is currently known about the Christines in London this August.

Anna Zavelson has confirmed that she will be staying until 29th August. (Confirmed by her Instagram story)

Beatrice Penny-Touré is scheduled to start from 20th August.

Colleen Curran is away from the show from 21st to 29th August. (Confirmed by her Instagram story)

Japanese costume update:

For their opening in Nagoya, Christine has received some new costumes.

These costumes are based on the London production.

Costumes that have been updated for Nagoya are the Hannibal Slave Girl (1), Elissa Skirt (2-3), Star Princess (7-8) & Aminta (9) & Wedding dress (10).

The Dressing gown (4) updated during the previous stop in Fukuoka.

Of the costumes featured I believe the Rooftop/Countess dress (5-6) is the only costume that has not changed - although the pictures are not the best for confirming.

There are currently no pictures of the il Muto costume or blue dress - although I believe the il Muto costume may have received minor changes in Fukuoka.

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I will say it was a section saying ‘fortieth year cast’ but I won’t say who is on it, although I have come to the conclusion those who were are likely place fillers for the actual cast.

I think someone clicked publish instead of save/draft.

Navina Heyne as Christine (30/5/26)

Hi, firstly I’m glad you like my blog/instagram.

Polly is only scheduled for Monday (25/5), I assume Colleen will be back for Friday as Polly has had this date for months.

The schedule should be: (25-31/5)

Polly - Monday

Anna - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday

Colleen - Friday

Unless there are last minute changes.

From my knowledge Polly doesn’t have any more scheduled dates, unless she announces some this week after this show.

Beatrice Penny-Touré brochure images.

These are the images that have not been published online from what I can tell or are slightly different angles to the online/theatre images.

Other pictures featured in the brochure are the boat, Music of the Night and Rooftop images but these look like the same pictures as online (possibly with slightly different editing.

This brochure is currently on sale at Phantom London so if you visit there you will likely buy this one.

Anna Zavelson after her first Christine show in London (18/5/26)!

Finally made it to a Taylor Pardell Christine show.

Listening to the old London candenza was a joy.

I had tickets for tonight’s show in London, I exchanged them when it was announced Anna was joining next week instead.

And now Taylor is on as Christine.

Beatrice Penny-Touré’s final bow as Christine - 9/5/26

She held it together so well, even when she was crying she still kept it together to give the audience a wonderful performance.

Small progress to the cast change.

Surely they have to do it Monday.

Phantom returns to the Netherlands

It has been announced that Phantom if the Opera will return to the Netherlands in 2028.

The production is expected to premiere at the Nieuwe Luxor in Rotterdam.

The plan is for the show to perform Thursday to Sunday with the idea to be open as long as the show is in demand (hoping to perform for at least a year).

The performance will be in Dutch.

Based on the promotional images this will be a replica of the original production.

I agree with you about the whole 3 Christine thing.

I feel it is quite a risk having 3 Christine for 11 weeks (assuming week of 11th May is first week without Beatrice).

I feel like there is a high risk that we would end up with an Emergency cover situation at some point with someone being called back - and the pool for that is quite slim since Beatrice & Chumisa have shows, Lucy is probably still on Maternity leave, Eve recently posted about New York so I don’t know if that is a holiday or a show, Holly is touring and I feel Paige has possibly stepped away from performing. So the only people who could be called back without disrupting other plans are Anouk, Jess & Lily - but it’s also possible all three are busy and haven’t posted.

It is not impossible for the show to run with 3 Christines - it used to be like that pre-2020, but now that they are used to that safety net - i definitely feel it is a risk to loose one.

Personally I feel introducing a New Christine now would be for the best, the only other option would be introducing a new ensemble/cover Christine and doing full promotion of the current Christines - Colleen as Principal, Polly as alternate, Taylor as 1st cover, or even having a swing/cover Christine who will later either depart in July or take over an ensemble track.

I definitely agree that Colleen deserves the promotion, if I had the choice then I would have Colleen and Eve both have a short principal run if there has to be a temporary situation between now and July. Each doing a certain number of weeks so that we aren’t without a 4th Christine for too long.

I think the biggest risk of 3 Christines is holiday, although I will say that Colleen has taken a lot of holiday so maybe she has used all hers up, both Polly and Taylor seemed to have taken a lot as well so it is entirely possible that all three have no holiday left which allows the 3 Christine thing to work.

The fact that I have heard both situations - New Christine & Colleen principal/Polly alternate - just makes the waiting even more confusing.