Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
#0Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 9:45pm
Which would you perfer?
For me: HUGH PANARO! O GOD, I just love this guy as the Phantom! He is the best Phantom I've ever seen/ heard. I saw him on Broadway 3 times!
Michael Heath wasn't bad too.
Michael Crawford's voice was just too...I don't know how to explain it...wierd (cannot find the word to describe it)
Colm Wilkinson's voice sounded to old. (sounded like an old man)...But his role as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables was perfect.
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
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#1re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 9:46pmI adore Hugh Panaro. Total eargasm.
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#2re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 9:53pm
I could easily see Bob Cuccioli & his pipes in the role
Wonder what has happened to him. A movie website listing under trivia for POTO says it originally was to be filmed with Crawford & Brightman but it fell through when ALW divorced her
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#3re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 10:23pmI cannot imagine Michael Crawford playing the Phantom on screen...I think he's too old. Even if the movie was made in the early 1990s.
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
#4re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 10:25pmHugh Panaro is amazing.
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#5re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 10:26pmI second that. Absolutely phenomenal.
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#6re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 10:28pmMichael Crawford is the only Phantom:)
#7re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 11:50pmAs much as I like Colm Wilkinson, I don't care so much for his Phantom. He had this weird, affected accent that I didn't care for on his Phantom recording. I would have loved for Hugh Jackman to be cast in the movie. I think he would also be a wonderful Joe is Sunset Boulevard ever gets filmed.
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#8re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/1/05 at 11:59pmHugh Panaro!!! Absolutely amazing as the Phantom. His expressions and singing blow me away everytime I see him. Plus he's such a sweetheart at the stagedoor :)
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#9re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:05am
Hugh was the only Phantom I saw, but I was blown away.
ChrisLoves - I was thinking the same thing about Hugh Jackman.
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#10re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:05pm
I've seen and heard a lot of Phantoms too... Hugh Panaro still remains my favorite! :)
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#11re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:07pmSeriously, anyone BUT them. They never do it for me. CW is an amazing Valjean, but he doesn't work as the PHANTOM. MC just irritates me - I can't listen to him sig.
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#12re: Michael Crawford or Colm Wilkinson or just someone else!
Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:08pmDefinitely would have loved to see Hugh Jackman as the phantom in the movie.
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