I kept that totally to myself, but then I got two letters from fans mentioning certain mannerisms of my Phantom, saying they really connected with him and that they had Asperger's. When I first played the Phantom I decided to make him young, and studied Asperger's syndrome as a slight back-story because I saw some documentaries on unexplained geniuses and Asperger's came up. There are the obsessives and the scary ones. We see the audience giving us standing ovations each night seeing that reaction after every performance is thrilling. The only thing I know is what I see on stage. The show has received some negative feedback online from people who have seen previews. But without Christine, he's not happy – her voice is key to his music.
He's accepted there, so he changes a lot and becomes Coney Island's mastermind. Considering this, who did the singing in the movie Phantom of the Opera All of the principal actors sang in the film except for Minnie Driver.Most of the actors have a background in musicals or opera, but Driver (a skilled singer) had no experience in opera and was dubbed by Margaret Preece, a singing teacher from Solihull, UK.
It's a very attractive place for him, full of funfairs and freak shows, where people lose their inhibitions. After being hunted for murder, the Phantom has fled Paris for Coney Island, New York. It's a great story with a lavish set and costumes which are almost Tim Burton-esque. That teacher found me an agent and five years later I was the Phantom. I was working in a factory making the inside of hand dryers, thinking: "How am I going to get to the West End from here?" I went to the message board in Pineapple Dance Studios, closed my eyes and took the number of a singing teacher that my finger landed on. Film synopsis: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Unrated 93 min Horror A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. One day I saw an audition for a cruise and started singing on that. The 1925 classic silent film will be played on the big screen featuring Tom Helms playing his original score on Big Bertha, the Alabama Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ. I read as many books as I could on acting. Yes, but I never trained – I couldn't afford singing lessons back then. I said to friends: "I want to be the Phantom." I was handed a mic and had to say: "I'm the Phantom of the Opera." I was thinking: "Don't cry, because the boys are here." A seed was planted. Before the show I was asked to volunteer on stage. All I Ask of You from The Phantom of The Opera sung beautifully by Sierra Boggess and Hadley Fraser followe. I was about 12 years old on a school trip in Toronto and hated the idea of seeing an opera. One of Andrew Lloyd Webbers most romantic duets. When did you first see The Phantom of the Opera? Here the Iranian-born Canadian actor describes how it happened. After several years playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera in the West End, 31-year-old Ramin Karimloo returns as the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel, Love Never Dies, which opens at the Adelphi theatre, London, on Tuesday.