my two cents=butler was very well cast
To keep it short, I saw the movie & was entranced by Butler. I used to play with my dolls to the soundtrack of the [Original London Cast] Phantom of the Opera, so I've been listening to Michael Crawford for years and years (I was about 5 in 1986, which explains the dolls). Crawford has a pure, beautiful tenor voice that I love, but change is good. I think Butler's deeper, more rough-around-the-edges voice personifies what a deformed (yet, with Butler, still a hottie) genius deep in the cavern...
