Ben Forsterīen Forster with his make-up artist TanyaĪfter winning ITV’s reality TV competition Superstar in 2012, Ben Forster stepped up to don the infamous mask in 2016. Since then, he’s been acting on and off the stage, originating the role of the Wizard in Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice’s The Wizard Of Oz at the London Palladium in 2011 reprising 70s sit-com Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em in 2016 for a special sport relief charity episode and starring in the new West End musical The Go-Between at the Apollo Theatre in May 2016.Īt the age of 77, he shows no signs of quitting the stage and last year appeared in the 60th anniversary performance of Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde as the voice of God.

Update your cookie preferences here and enable ‘social and advertising cookies’ To see this content you’ll need to allow us to set some additional cookies! With two and a half years under his belt, over 1,300 performances, an Olivier Award, a Tony Award and a presidential performance, Michael Crawford achieved a lot as the first Phantom! He was one of the guests of honour – alongside some of the other biggest Phantom Of The Opera actors – at Phantom’s 30th anniversary gala back in 2016. Intrigued, they tracked down the owner of the voice and called him in for an audition. Anecdotally, Michael was offered the part after Andrew Lloyd Webber and his then wife Sarah Brightman arrived early for her singing lesson and happened to overhear the end of the previous students lesson. Michael Crawford was the original phantom back in 1986. Michael CrawfordĪndrew Lloyd Webber, Michael Crawford and Cameron Mackintosh. In case you were Wishing They Were Somehow Here Again, we thought we’d check out what some of our favourite Phantom Of The Opera actors are up to now.

With some immense talent required to belt out those songs, the Phantom Phandom (we’re not sorry) all have a favourite masked man. The Phantom Of The Opera has been making audiences weep, scream and applaud with all their might for over 33 years now.

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