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One Man Phantom of the Opera
Oct. 8th, 2021 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Apparently this was an Internet sensation nine or ten years ago; it's a little bit 'dog walking on its hind legs' for me (the impressive thing is not how well he can sing Christine/Phantom, but that he can sing both roles at all, even if neither is really comfortable), but half the entertainment lies in watching the 'greyed-out' characters reacting to the performance of the currently-featured singer. He does a doe-eyed Christine and a supremely arrogant Phantom (I get the feeling Nick Pitera is not an E/C shipper!)
Raoul spends most of the performance looking worried (and occasionally exchanging a confused glance with Christine), but in fact Nick's voice probably suits this role best -- he's a little lacking in the low notes, but that's less important than when playing the Phantom, while the singer can let his natural light voice ring without needing to go into falsetto.
Perhaps it's unsurprising that he also makes a pretty good Marius in his "One-Man Les Mis" compilation...
Apparently this was an Internet sensation nine or ten years ago; it's a little bit 'dog walking on its hind legs' for me (the impressive thing is not how well he can sing Christine/Phantom, but that he can sing both roles at all, even if neither is really comfortable), but half the entertainment lies in watching the 'greyed-out' characters reacting to the performance of the currently-featured singer. He does a doe-eyed Christine and a supremely arrogant Phantom (I get the feeling Nick Pitera is not an E/C shipper!)
Raoul spends most of the performance looking worried (and occasionally exchanging a confused glance with Christine), but in fact Nick's voice probably suits this role best -- he's a little lacking in the low notes, but that's less important than when playing the Phantom, while the singer can let his natural light voice ring without needing to go into falsetto.
Perhaps it's unsurprising that he also makes a pretty good Marius in his "One-Man Les Mis" compilation...
