With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, and a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group, Phantom opened in London’s West End in 1986 and, two years later, on Broadway, with direction by Harold Prince.
The musical has long played at the Shubert Organization’s Majestic Theatre. The Go-Between will play from until 15 October 2016 at the Apollo Theatre.Jimmy Fallon Confirms "I'm In!" To Reprise 'Almost Famous' Film Role For Broadway Musical In Drop-By Performances - Update Other credits include Hello, Dolly! with Barbra Streisand, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Knack, The Jokers, How I Won the War, Hello and Goodbye and Condorman. In Film and TV he is still remembered fondly for his role as Frank Spencer in BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.
His other numerous stage credits include Barnum, The Woman In White, Billy, Flowers for Algernon, Black Comedy, Dance of the Vampires and a host of concert tours in the UK, United States, Canada and Australia. Michael is also well known for originating the role of the Phantom in Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera in both London and New York, winning Tony, Drama Desk, Olivier, Outer Critic’s Circle, Dramalogue and Drama Critic’s Circle Awards for his performance.
He was last on stage 5 years ago playing the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Wizard Of Oz at the London Palladium. Class and casual cruelty inflict lasting psychological scars upon the boy and it’s the older Leo, reminiscing as he leafs through a dusty diary, who finally understands what happened in that long ago, turn-of-the-20th century summer.Ĭrawford,74, has spent over five decades treading the boards, with his first professional stage appearance in 1955 as Sammy the Little Sweep in Benjamin Britten’s Let’s Make an Opera at the Scala Theatre in London. Michael Crawford – the original Phantom – stars in the West End premiere of L.P Hartley’s The Go-Between.Ĭrawford plays Leo Colston, the story’s narrator, who as a teen went to stay at the English country estate of a wealthy school friend.
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