BETHLEHEM, Pa. — In its 36 years on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning musical "The Phantom of the Opera" has had just 12 actors in the title role.
Four of those actors will join forces in a show coming to Wind Creek Event Center.
The Four Phantoms in Concert, featuring Brent Barrett, John Cudia, Franc D’Ambrosio and Ciarán Sheehan, will perform "iconic hits from Broadway and beyond" at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 29.
Tickets, at $39.50-$99.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at the Wind Creek Event Center website or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.www.windcreekeventcenter.com
Tickets, at $39.50-$99.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at the Wind Creek website or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
"Phantom of the Opera" is composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s longest-running musical, opening in 1986 in London's West End and debuting on Broadway in 1988.
It won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Best Actor in a Musical. A film adaptation was released in 2004.
In The Four Phantoms, the lead singers will be joined by Kaley Ann Voorhees, who had the role of Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway.
The four Phantoms
Barrett has performed on Broadway, most recently reprising his role as Billy Flynn in the Tony-winning hit "Chicago-The Musical."
In Las Vegas, he opened the new production of Webber’s "Phantom-The Las Vegas Spectacular."
His other Broadway roles include Frank Butler in the Broadway revival of Irving Berlin’s "Annie Get Your Gun" with Reba McEntire, Charles Castleton in the Alan Jay Lerner musical "Dance a Little Closer" and Baron Felix Von Gaigern in "Grand Hotel."
Cudia is the only actor to have performed both as the Phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera" and Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables" on Broadway — where he made his Broadway debut.
His most recent Broadway run had him return to the Phantom role.
Cudia also has played Broadway as Juan Peron in "Evita" with Ricky Martin.
He also has toured the United States and Canada as the Phantom and also has the role of Raoul on Broadway.
D’Ambrosio's portrayal of the Phantom on Broadway was the longest-running ever. It lasted over a decade, in which he performed to more than a million theater-goers in a 6 1/2-year run.
He also appeared in the Academy Award-nominated film "Godfather III" and sang the Academy Award-winning theme song of the movie “Speak Softly Love.”
He studied with Luciano Pavarotti and founded the Lorenzo Malfatti Accademia Vocale di Lucca, where he teaches his craft to young opera students each summer.
In addition to Broadway, Sheehan has performed as the Phantom on Broadway and in Toronto, Canada.
Other Broadway roles include Raoul in "The Phantom of the Opera" and Babet and Marius in "Les Miserables," Sir Dinadan in "Camelot" with Jeremy Irons, and Woody in "Finian’s Rainbow."
He soon will play Bartell d’Arcy in Joyce’s "The Dead with Kate Burton" in New York, and currently is producing and starring in an Off-Broadway production of O’Neill’s "Anna Christie."
