“Everybody involved was truly great at their task, but that doesn’t mean everything,” she remembers of the original production. “I felt totally disassociated from it, but yet it was me that it was about.”Įventually a compromise was reached, and the show became such a smash hit that it has played ever since (save for a suspension during the pandemic), becoming Broadway’s longest running show – although it will finally end its run on February 18, 2023. “I still don’t fully understand it,” she laughs now of the fuss. She won a part in “Cats” and later married its composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, who cast her as Christine Daaé in both the original London and New York productions of “The Phantom of the Opera.” She was nearly prevented from taking up the 1988 Broadway role by the American Actors’ Equity Association’s ruling that she was not enough of an international star to warrant taking the part from an American performer. Indeed, Brightman went from dancing on weekly British chart show “Top of the Pops” to releasing her own disco singles, before a move into musical theater. So, all the time I was doing Hot Gossip, I was training my voice, because that was what I wanted to end up doing.” “But I was still very young and it wasn’t time for that to come to fruition. “I knew I had a great gift in my voice,” she says.
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