Her ‘Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again’ is tremendously touching and has the audience in raptures of applause. The whole show is well acted and sung, especially so in the case of Holly Anne-Hull’s beautiful and vulnerable portrayal of Christine Daa é.

His powerful vocals are mind-blowingly great. Killian Donnelly makes a phenomenal Phantom, working each of his Acheronian songs, aching and sexy duets and character motivations with a consummate mix of anger, malevolence and, ultimately, deep sympathy. The cast is impressively big in number and this is particularly evident in the sparkling and “wow” inducing New Year’s Eve Masquerade scene. You don’t need to go to London to see this (well you can if you want) because this touring production is totally on a par with the long running show at Her Majesty’s Theatre.

It’s visually and aurally stunning and this reviewer almost envies any audience member who is seeing this über impressive show for the very first time. The highly impressive set (adapted by Matt Kinley) has managed to magically transform the modern Curve stage into a lavish Op é ra Populaire and other Gothic Parisian locations.Īnd that’s it really ~ this production is properly magical theatre ~ the type where the packed audience watch in awed silence throughout the entirety of the show ~ save a few appropriate laughs ~ then spend the interval grinning and gushing and finally finish off the night with a very well deserved total standing ovation in appreciation, not just of the terrific cast and amazing live orchestra, but of the whole musically melodramatic and thrilling package. To happily borrow the very well-used word play adaptation, this The Phantom of the Opera touring production is 100% ephing Phantastic! This production is truly worth a big fat thesaurus of positive superlatives and then some more made up ones.

Phantom of the opera tour