Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Keller Auditorium
9 / 10
This national tour production gets at exactly why PHANTOM keeps filling houses. Those of us who wore out the original cast recording in the 90s are already primed, and this cast more than meets the moment. Isaiah Bailey and Jordan Lee Gilbert crackle as the Phantom and Christine (this is the sexiest PHANTOM I’ve seen). Bailey plays the role with disarming humanity. You fear him and feel for him in equal measure, sometimes in the same moment. Gilbert, with a solid opera background and making her national tour debut, is wonderful. Her Christine is bright-eyed but far from naive.
