Phantom Understudy

who was the understudy?

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interesting, no seriously, who was the understudy?

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The Phantom understudies I know of are James Romick and David Gashen.

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I haven't seen him but I can see what you're talking about--when I saw the Les Miz tour the Marius was waaaaaay too operatic. It was frustrating.

Everyone is welcome to their own opinion but I’ve never found Jim Romick’s voice to be too operatic.

Jim Romick and David Gaschen are both top notch and shine in ever role they perform. I believe they are both swings, not understudies.

I’ve seen Phantom of the Opera quite a few times and hardly ever attend unless I’m sure that Jim Romick will be donning the mask and the cape.

Last week, Jim was filling in for a vacationing Jeff Keller and performing the role of Monsieur Firmin. It’s fun to see him play other roles, other than just the Phantom because you get to see him use different mannerisms and so many different voices.

The one problem with seeing Jim play another role is that someone else will be performing the Phantom. And, without a doubt.... they’ll still be trying to get it right!

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I'm confused by the talk of this elusive "musical-theatre style" singing...could someone describe this for me?

I know the tour doesn't have the same people, but everyone in the cast was very operatic, it was so beautiful. Rebecca Pitcher has a beautiful multi-tonal voice, and Gary Mauer, who is also an Opera major I believe, was beautiful.

Mr. Webber wrote it so that most of it was in Opera form or deeply influenced. The more Opera in Phantom, the better. Now it'd be different if it was Les Miz or something like that, but I think it adds so much more talent to the show.

"It was James Romick. Great opera voice but wrong show."

James Romick is good. Hes very nice also. Hes the one that took me backstage when I met him =-)

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Bump.

WHERE
IS
HUGH PANARO????

Is he on vacation????

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Yup. According to my sources, if you guys want to see David Gaschen and/or Jim Romick as the Phantom, go on Sat. Sept. 4th. David will be performing the matinee and Jim will be performing the evening show. Cheers! :)

~Rosalynn

Dont forget John Cudia. John is also a Phantom understudy. This past week I believe David Gaschen went on as the Phantom u/s.

I have seen Cudia, Romick, and Gaschen as phantom understudies (Boy I have no Life). Gaschen is one of my favorites, so is John. These men all have really great voices.

Gaschen truely is my fav. u/s though.

I am comparing all the phantoms to Michael Crawford who did NOT sing the phantom in an operatic style. He sang it in a normal "lemiz" musical theatre style and I prefer that better.