Title: Good but not good enough
Product review: I expected more of this album. Wilkinson after all is one of the great Valjeans. On the good side, the music is update and thrillingly conducted. And Rebecca Caine makes a believable Christine whose fear of the Phantom is palpable. Her voice is stronger than Brightmans. But Wilkinson makes a Valjean pretending to be the Phantom. And his way of singing is wrong for the role. He also comes over as brutal and nasty, no wonder the girl was afraid. The sexual element that makes the Phantom so appealing and magnetic on the London cast is completely missing, and instead this is sadistic and cruel. I wouldn't have come to love the musical if this had been the original CD of it.
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