The production - directed by Laurence Connor and choreographed by Scott Ambler - looks lush, with 52 performers onstage and in the pit.
Travis has a powerful operatic voice, heard best in “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again.” As Christine’s love Raoul, Storm Lineberger has an ear-pleasing baritone voice and likable stage presence. Christine is the spellbound muse of the Phantom, and their encounter scenes are the most compelling in the show. Katie Travis is exceptional as Christine Daee, the opera company’s wasp-waisted ballet dancer-turned-prima donna. On Friday, he was off-pitch in his lower register during his first-act “Music of the Night” solo, but his singing improved in the second act.Ĭhris Mann as the Phantom and Katie Travis as Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" at San Diego Civic Theatre. Mann is more eerie and sinister and his final scene is exceptionally well performed.
Mann’s Phantom is a departure from the elegant, romantic character created by Michael Crawford and carried on by dozens of other actors over the decades. While the physical look of the show - set behind a gilded proscenium arch designed to look like the stage of the old Paris opera house - is different, the musical’s script and score are delivered in traditional, and often very impressive fashion.Ĭhris Mann, a finalist on TV’s “The Voice,” stars as the Phantom, a violent and deformed composer who lives in the catacombs beneath the opera house. Where: Broadway/San Diego at the San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., downtown.
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