Title: Not impressed
Product review: I watched this Royal Albert Hall version on TV during the local PBS fund raising campaign. I have see Phantom twice at the Curran in San Francisco and listened to the original CD hundreds of time. I have heard many different voices in the lead parts. The three leads at Royal Albert, singing Christine Daae, the Phantom and Raoul were disappointing. To my ear, Lisa Vroman is by far the best Christine, even better than Sarah Brightman. Franc D'Ambrosio does the best Phantom with Michael Crawford a close second. No wonder the SF and LA runs went so long.The acting is very artificial, maybe due to the use of close-ups. Live theater, even from cheap seats, is much better and gets stuck playing in my head. The various singers/actors performances are available on YouTube by bootleg video. Even bootlegged, Lisa Vroman is the best.
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