He played the lead for three and a half consecutive years - both on the national tour and on Broadway - from summer of 1995 to January 1999. In its 35-year run, O’Leary was a cast member for six - 15 months on the national tour and the rest in New York City. O'Leary, a Windsor Locks native, is one of its longest-running Phantoms. The Phantom of the Opera is free to watch from 7pm BST on Friday 17 April (for 24 hours for UK viewers and 48 hours in other territories) as part of The Shows Must Go On, a series offering a different Andrew Lloyd Webber musical each week.In February 2023, "The Phantom of the Opera," Broadway's longest-running show, is set to raise its chandelier in the Majestic Theatre one last time. We are all at home looking for something to help us forget.
It will be great to relive it with everyone. I grew up loving it and then I happened to be the Phantom for a moment in time and now I’m a fan again. I’m just as much a fan of the show as I am the Phantom. So we performed Once Upon Another Time from Love Never Dies together online. I went into dad mode – are we healthy, is my family OK, have we got groceries? Once it became clear this would be our norm, I still wanted to sing. We both love to perform but for the first two or three weeks of lockdown neither of us wanted to sing.
I love working with Sierra Boggess, who plays Christine.
My tough-guy attitude really disappeared when I was left alone. I don’t need to know that! When I played the Phantom I was always the last to leave the building because of all that makeup I had to take off. Whenever people start telling me stories about theatres being haunted, I walk away. The 25th-anniversary version of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 2011
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