#Rick hilsabeck
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marleneoftheopera · 3 months ago
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1995 TV Special of the Raoul Company US Tour, which includes some footage of Rick Hilsabeck and Sarah Pfisterer!
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meilas · 10 months ago
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just discovered this guy and he and this video are hitting all the right marks. the lighting is chef's kiss and the way he moves is so deliberate. his voice goes from so, so quiet, to the only thing you can hear (idk maybe the orchestra was too quiet at points?) watch how he stands up from the organ before motn, he looks like a predator. this man is 100% in control. those high notes sound effortless. and his hand movements are particularly erotic.
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glassprism · 7 months ago
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MC and Franc D’Ambrosio both started off playing the phantom at the start of their runs, but what other old school actors also started as the phantom?
Well, assuming a random cut-off date of the year 2000 for "old school Phantoms", I'd say... quite a lot of actors? Remember, when the show first started, there's no pool of former Raouls (or less commonly, former Andres or Piangis) to draw upon for Phantom actors. A lot of principal actors for Phantom in the early days started off playing the Phantom.
So a small listing of them, across multiple productions, might include: Michael Crawford, Dave Willetts, Martin Smith, Peter Polycarpou, Peter Karrie, Mark McKerracher, Mark Jacoby, Marcus Lovett, Robert Guillaume, Rick Hilsabeck, Ron Bohmer, Masachika Ichimura, Alexander Goebel, Colm Wilkinson, Jeff Hyslop, Paul Stanley, Anthony Warlow, Rob Guest, Mikael Samuelson, Peter Hofmann, Tim Tobin, Henk Poort, Florian Schneider, Juan Navarro, Saulo Vasconcelos. Among others, I'm sure.
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phantomonabudget · 5 years ago
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Favorite phantom mask?
Definitely the early-late ‘90s Broadway and US National Tour masks, back when they were still custom molded and fitted to each actor.  These were more stylized than the original West End mask, with a more prominent brow, but unlike today, I feel like the brow is more expressive and less overwhelming. Like this one on Davis Gaines:
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...and this one on Franc D’Ambrosio:
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...and this beauty on the late (and great) Kevin Gray:
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...and this one on Marcus Lovett:
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....and Rick Hilsabeck:
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...and Ted Keegan!!!
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....and lastly, this guy on Ian Jon Bourg when he was on the National Tour:
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That era is followed very closely in second by the original mask Crawford wore.  It’s simplicity cannot be undervalued: 
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behindthemirrorofmusic · 4 years ago
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Rick Hilsabeck early 90's US National Tour Phantom
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wheel-of-fish · 6 years ago
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Hey Fish! Do you know which actors, who have played Erik & Christine, have become a couple IRL? I saw it mentioned on your blog, but couldn’t figure it out. Thank you!!
This isn’t really my area, but here are the applicable couples I know of:
Gary Mauer & Elizabeth Southard
Kevin Gray & Dodie Pettit
Rick Hilsabeck & Sarah Pfisterer
Ron Bohmer & Sandra Joseph
If there are more (and there probably are), @glassprism will know. :)
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gabriezzu · 6 years ago
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Oh. My. God.
This is AMAZING! I can’t believe I just find out about this phantom!
The illumination (or rather, the lack of) and the low, barely-there music make this interpretation incredible. The darkness hides the majority of the Phantom’s face, and the light hits him just right so that the mask shines more. His eyes get hid under the shadows during the whole video, and it gives him such a supernatural, creepy vibe! Makes you feel like he will do something strange and unexpected, wich I think is perfect for a character as mysterious as the Phantom is at this point of the story. The low music makes his voice the center of attention, and the movement of his hands (very fine hands btw) are hypnotic.
It’s so creepy.
I. LOVED. IT.
We need more creepy, strange Phantoms! 
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anna-williams-wins · 6 years ago
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A little memento from the first time I saw Phantom of the Opera live. I saw Rick Hilsabeck and Susan Owen and they were amazing.
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uglyducklingpresse · 7 years ago
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17 Years of 6x6 Poets
#1. Edmund Berrigan, Filip Marinovich, Sheila E. Murphy, Julien Poirier, Lev Rubinstein (tr. Matvei Yankelevich), Kathrine Sowerby   #2. John M. Bennett, Joel Dailey, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (tr. Evgeny Pavlov with Benjamin Friedlander), Michael Ford, R. Cole Heinowitz, Genya Turovskaya   #3. John Coletti, Nathaniel Farrell, Eugene Ostashevsky, Elizabeth Reddin, Cedar Sigo, Samantha Visdaate   #4. Brandon Downing, W.B. Keckler, Anna Moschovakis, Dmitri Prigov (tr. Christopher Mattison), Aaron Tieger, Sam Truitt   #5. Micah Ballard, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Frank Lima, Beth Murray, Philip Nikolayev, Keith Waldrop   #6. Carlos Blackburn, Joe Elliot, Arielle Greenberg, Mark Lamoreux, Alicia Rabins, Lewis Warsh   #7.David Cameron, Steve Dalachinsky, Joanna Fuhrman, Jason Lynn, Tomaž Šalamun (tr. Joshua Beckman), Jacqueline Waters   #8. Nicole Andonov, Jenna Cardinale, Arielle Guy, Yuko Otomo, Guillermo Juan Parra, Karen Weiser   #9. Jon Cone, Phil Cordelli, Dorothea Lasky, Julie Ritter, Laura Sims, Erica Weitzman   #10. Ilya Bernstein, Geoffrey Detrani, Paul Killebrew, Laura Solomon, Viktor Vida (tr. Ana Božičević), Dana Ward   #11. Sue Carnahan, C.S. Carrier, Christina Clark, a collaboration by Aaron McNally and Friedrich Kerksiek, Rick Snyder, James Wagner   #12. Guy R. Beining, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Sawako Nakayasu, Cynthia Nelson, John Surowiecki, Novica Tadić (tr. Maja Teref & Steven Teref)   #13. Matthew Gavin Frank, George Kalamaras, Ann Lauterbach, Matthew Rohrer, Evan Willner, Lynn Xu   #14. Corina Copp, Randall Leigh Kaplan, Douglas Rothschild, Fred Schmalz, Lori Shine, Prabhakar Vasan   #15. Lawrence Giffin, David Goldstein, Anne Heide, Will Hubbard, Mikhail Lermontov (tr. Jerome Rothenberg and Milos Sovak), Emma Rossi   #16. Heather Christle, Amanda Deutch, Ossian Foley, John High, Anthony Madrid, Gretchen Primack   #17. James Copeland, Lucy Ives, Megan Kaminski, Mary Millsap, Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina, Kevin Varrone   #18. Guy Bennett, Rebecca Guyon, Paul Hoover, Srečko Kosovel (tr. Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson), Deborah Wardlaw Pattillo, Maureen Thorson   #19. Emily Carr, Julia Cohen, Natalie Lyalin, Lee Norton, Dan Rosenberg, G.C. Waldrep   #20. Emily Anicich, Billy Cancel, Michael Nicoloff, Frances Richard, Elizabeth Robinson, M. A. Vizsolyi   #21. Michael Barron, Julie Carr, Marosa di Giorgio (tr. Jeannine Marie Pitas), Farid Matuk, Amanda Nadelberg, Sara Wintz   #22. Lily Brown, George Eklund, Chris Hosea, Aaron McCollough, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Nelson   #23. Miloš Djurdjević (tr. Tomislav Kuzmanović), James Hart III, Geoffrey Hilsabeck, Noelle Kocot, Aeron Kopriva, Maged Zaher   #24. Bill Cassidy, Helen Dimos, Pär Hansson (tr. Jennifer Hayashida & Tim Dinan), Aaron Kunin, Kyle Schlesinger, Rebecca Wolff   #25. Sherman Alexie, Noah Eli Gordon, Marina Kaganova, Karen Lepri, Fani Papageorgiou, Roger Williams   #26. Abraham Adams, Dot Devota, William Minor, Levi Rubeck, Martha Ronk, Steve Muhs   #27. Eric Amling, Antonio Gamoneda (tr. Sara Gilmore), Gracie Leavitt. Thibault Raoult, Marthe Reed, Judah Rubin   #28. Jon Curley, Katie Fowley, Dmitry Golynko, Dan Ivec, Alejandra Pizarnik (tr. Yvette Siegert), Matt Reeck   #29. Stephanie Anderson, Kate Colby, Steffi Drewes, Hugo Margenat (tr. by Vero González), Masin Persina, Adam Tobin   #30. Jon Boisvert, Ana Martins Marques (tr. Elisa Wouk Almino), Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Denise Newman, Anzhelina Polonskaya (tr. Andrew Wachtel), Hirato Renkichi (tr. Sho Sugita)   #31. Shane Anderson, Lewis Freedman, francine j harris, Carl Schlachte, Stacy Szymaszek, Sarah Anne Wallen   #32. James D. Fuson, Lyn Hejinian, Barbara Henning, Tony Iantosca, Uroš Kotlajić (tr. Ainsley Morse), Morgan Parker   #33. Amanda Berenguer (tr. Gillian Brassil & Alex Verdolini), Jeremy Hoevenaar, Krystal Languell, Holly Melgard, Marc Paltrineri, Cat Tyc   #34. Alex Cuff, Kristen Gallagher, s. howe, Aisha Sasha John, Claudia La Rocco, Grzegorz Wróblewski (tr. Piotr Gwiazda)   #35. Ted Dodson, Judith Goldman, Anna Gurton-Wachter, Kim Hunter, Katy Lederer, Bridget Talone   #36. Anselm Berrigan, Chia-Lun Chang, Cheryl Clarke, Lisa Fishman, Vasilisk Gnedov (tr. Emilia Loseva & Danny Winkler), Sarah Wang.
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arqueete · 8 years ago
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A little while back I went to a concert that was raising money for a local high school’s trip to New York to appear in the Macy’s parade, starring former Phantom of the Opera cast members Sarah Pfisterer and Rick Hilsabeck. It was a good show (mostly just popular showtunes) and I thought the article they included on the back of the program was fascinating. 
(Coincidentally I also did see Sarah’s brother Steve in that (truly excellent) community theater production of Les Mis without having any idea they were related.)
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operafantomet · 9 years ago
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Cause the MOTN pose is awesome out of context too
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glassprism · 4 years ago
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Gary Mauer and Elizabeth Southard are the best! The Phantom doesn't really lose, he takes his Christine home with him at the end of the day. Those two are so cute, I love your videos of the happy married couple. Have there ever been any other real life couples who played Phantom and Christine or is it just them?
Oh there’s been quite a few, as well as real-life Raoul and Christine couples (and Phantom and Meg, Raoul and Meg, etc.). Of the Phantom and Christine couples, one of the most famous back in their day was Kevin Gray and Dodie Pettit. Ron Bohmer and Sandra Joseph are another, though I don’t believe they were married when they were playing the roles together. However, they fell in love during that time, or as Sandra Joseph herself puts it in this thread:
...when I was first cast as Christine I received a congratulatory letter in the mail from Rick Hilsabeck who was to be my Phantom. I was deeply touched by the gracious gesture. So when it was my turn to welcome a new Phantom (on the tour) I was mindful to write a similar letter to Ron Bohmer. He apparently appreciated it a lot. He's now my husband of eight years.
And if you want to see more, just check out Operafantomet’s exhaustive post here, which includes real-life couples across many different roles.
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oldschoolphantoms · 12 years ago
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Rick Hilsabeck and Teri Bibb. US National Tour. Ca. 1993.
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glassprism · 5 years ago
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i was reading a list of some baritone-y phantoms which got me thinking: any phantoms that had a distinctive really high-tenor voice? Idk if that’s the correct wording but hopefully the meaning is still clear!
Yeah, I realized I had lots of lists of baritone Phantoms and booming operatic Phantoms, but nothing of the tenor Phantoms! Off the top of my head, those with particularly light or tenor-like voices might include:
Michael Crawford
Masachika Ichimura (basically a Crawford clone)
Dave Willetts (another one very similar to Crawford)
Jeff Hyslop
Kevin Gray (to the point of being piercing)
Franc D’Ambrosio
Rick Hilsabeck
Rob Guest
Andrew Hambley-Smith
Thomas James O’Leary
Laird Mackintosh
Michael Nicholson
Hugh Panaro
Christian A. Muller
Peter Joback
Mathias Edenborn
Chris Mann
And I’m sure I missed a ton...
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glassprism · 5 years ago
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Hi Glass To help counter the doom and gloom of recent times, I was wondering if you know of any POTO actors who were married or dated? And if they were part of the main 3, how do you think it effected their on stage chemistry? I saw Tam Mutu & Sierra Boggess in LND when they were dating and they did feel more genuine than Ramin & Sierra.
@operafantomet made a really good list here, and has more in her tag on real-life couples.
It’s actually fairly difficult for me to judge the chemistry of these real-life couples, because many have either gone unrecorded (this is the case of Brennan Holder and Amy Hudson or Juliette Audra Miller and Stephen Trafton), have only had audios taken of them (this goes for Ron Bohmer and Sandra Joseph, John Cudia and Kathy Voytko, Rick Hilsabeck and Sarah Pfisterer, and Kim So Hyun and Son Ju Ho), or have been filmed but not together (there’s footage of Carla Nicholson and Michael Nicholson, but with two other Phantoms and Christines).
So the only two married couples I can think of that I’ve actually seen footage of would be Kevin Gray and Dodie Pettit and Gary Mauer and Elizabeth Southard. Their chemistry was quite good - the duo of Mauer and Southard in particular is legendary - but I also feel like I’ve seen couples who were not in relationships who had just as remarkable chemistry. For me, I think it’s the real-life context that makes me go “aawww” - that, and the adorable stories.
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glassprism · 7 years ago
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Hey GP! I was wondering if you could figure out who would have been in the main roles in March 1994?
Sure, though it depends on location (and I’ll just do the trio here):
London
Phantom: Ethan Freeman
Christine: Jill Washington
Christine alt.: Claire Moore
Raoul: Clive Carter
Broadway
Phantom: Marcus Lovett
Christine: Tracy Shayne
Christine alt.: Luann Aronson
Raoul: Ciaran Sheehan
1st National Tour (San Francisco)
Phantom: Franc D'Ambrosio
Christine: Lisa Vroman
Christine alt.: Cristin Mortenson
Raoul: Raymond Saar
2nd National Tour (Chicago)
Phantom: Rick Hilsabeck
Christine: Sarah Pfisterer
Christine alt.: Rita Harvey
Raoul: Nat Chandler
3rd National Tour
Phantom: Grant Norman
Christine: Adrienne McEwan
Christine alt.: Sylvia Rhyne
Raoul: John Schroeder
UK Tour
Unfortunately, the brochures available skip from October 1993 to November 1994, so I’m not quite sure when cast change occurred, so these are the possibilities.
Phantom:  Dave Willetts or Mark McKerracher
Christine: Lisa Hull or Nikki Ankara
Christine alt.: Josie Walker or Sarah Ryan
Raoul: Mike Sterling
Toronto:
A very confusing year; there aren’t brochures and I’m somewhat doubtful as to whether my videos from this production are labeled with the correct year. But it may have been...
Phantom: Peter Karrie
Christine: Teresa DeZarn
Christine alt: ?
Raoul: David Rogers
Canadian Tour:
Phantom: Jeff Hyslop
Christine: Patti Cohenour
Christine alt.: June Crowley
Raoul: David Rogers
Australian Tour
Phantom: Rob Guest
Christine: Maree Johnson
Christine alt.: Danielle Everett
Raoul: Peter Cousens
Japanese Tour (Sapporo)
The Japanese productions usually have at least three to four actors sharing each role, but unfortunately, all we know are the following three.
Phantom: Eiji Akutagawa
Christine: Hisako Hanaoka
Raoul: Kanji Ishimaru
Stockholm
Phantom: Mikael Samuelsson
Christine: Johanne Brochmann and Inger Olsson Moberg (shared the role)
Raoul: Jan Kyhle
Hamburg:
Phantom: Thomas Schulze
Phantom alt.: Simon Tunkin
Christine: Colby Thomas
Christine alt.: Renée Knapp
Raoul: Dale Tracy
Scheveningen:
Phantom: Henk Poort
Christine: Joke De Kruijf
Christine alt.: Els Bongers (most likely)
Raoul: Peter De Smet
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