

Phantom of the Opera celebrated its 4000th performances in Toronto April 16, 1999. 31) and Jeff Hyslop, the Canadian Phantom vet who has played the role for more than 800 performances (Aug. 31 shuttering, 1999 guest stars in the role of the Phantom were Rene Simard, a Quebec singer who has recorded 47 albums and toured the world (April 2-May 23), Stanley (May 25-Aug.

(Originally, a six-week engagement beginning Jan. The historic, restored Pantages Theatre, the first jewel in the Livent crown of properties, will next host the Livent North American tour of Fosse Dec. 31, the show will have played nearly 4,300 performances there. More than 7 million people have seen Phantom in Toronto. They recently completed the European, South American and Mexican stadium stands of a "Psycho-Circus" World Tour. KISS has released 31 recordings and sold 80 million albums. Stanley has been known since the 1970s for the wild, menacing, leather and-tights rock group KISS, which enjoyed a comeback in the 1990s. The Pantages Theatre is located at 244 Victoria Street in downtown Toronto. Melissa Dye plays Christine and Laird Mackintosh is Raoul. Stanley was able to arrange KISS tour dates around his Phantom duties and play the final, extended month.

8 (allowing a month for the dismantling of the set and the cleaning of the theatre). 31 to make way for the national tour of Fosse, which arrives Dec. 26 after 10 years and 7 million customers.īut Phantom, part of Toronto's theatre boom over the past decade, must close Oct. Stanley's successful run apparently helped to prompt Livent (and now SFX Entertainment, which bought Livent) to extend Phantom through Halloween. Over the summer, a new breed of fan - the rock 'n' roller - came to see Stanley sing some of Andrew Lloyd Webber's most romantic songs, at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto. 31, reprising the part he played there May 25-Aug. Paul Stanley, the frontman for the rock band KISS, known for his black and-white star makeup around one eye, returns as the Toronto masked man in The Phantom of the Opera Sept.
