Olivier Award winner David Thaxton will step into the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre for a limited run from Monday 10 December 2018.
Fresh from playing Javert in Les Misérables at the Queens Theatre, the star who previously played Raoul in Phantom sequel Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre, will take over the role of the man in the mask from Tim Howar. As previously announced, Howar will leave the show on Saturday 8 December to fulfil his contracted dates with rock band Mike and The Mechanics. He will return to the role from Monday 13 May 2019.
Thaxton will join Kelly Mathieson as Christine Daaé, Jeremy Taylor as Raoul, Amy Manford as the alternate Christine Daaé, Kimberly Blake as Carlotta Giudicelli, Ross Dawes as Monsieur Firmin, Mark Oxtoby as Monsieur André, Jacinta Mulcahy as Madame Giry, Paul Ettore Tabone as Ubaldo Piangi, Georgia Ware as Meg Giry and Scott Davies as the standby Phantom.
The cast is completed by Matthew Barrow, Matt Bateman, James Bisp, James Butcher, Bridget Costello, Sophie Cottrill, Hadrian Delacey, Morven Douglas, Paul Erbs, Hannah Grace, Philip Griffiths, Katy Hanna, Hettie Hobbs, Grace Horne, Lily Howes, Ellen Jackson, Adam Robert Lewis, Kris Manuel, Tim Morgan, Danielle Pullum, Rebecca Ridout, Anna Shircliff, Emily Smith, Rachel Spurrell, John Stacey, Andrei Teodor Iliescu, Claire Tilling, Victoria Ward and Danny Whitehead.
The Phantom of the Opera opened at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 9 October 1986 starring Michael Crawford as The Phantom and Sarah Brightman as ‘Christine’. The show is currently booking until 5 October 2019. The show can currently also be seen in New York, Budapest, Copenhagen, Oslo, Prague and Sao Paulo and on tour in the US.
Angela Thomas
Tickets for The Phantom of the Opera are available HERE.
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