“The chandelier drop is the whole inspiration for the Phantom of the Opera myth,” Storm explained.
While Lineberger said the production is different from past Phantom tours, one thing that hasn’t changed? The show’s epic chandelier drop. It was the first music I had ever heard, as far as musical theater is concerned. Every tune in the show is a greatest hit that you know when you walk in. “She said I was leaned over in my chair, practically breathing on the person in front of me because I was so into the show.
My grandmother took me to the show,” Lineberger recalled. It was a tour that went through my home town. Performing a leading role in The Phantom of the Opera is not only reaching the pinnacle of success for an actor, but also a dream come true for any fan of musical theater. Definitely very exciting, the whole process.” Then I thought, ‘oh, wow, this is what this feels like.’ It’s a lot different than you would think. It got to the point when I was doing a show for Cameron Mackintosh himself. “When I got the first call back for the next round of auditions, it definitely became very real. I had the expectation that I needed to get my feet wet for a little while, that I would have to do the rounds and get in front of all of these casting directors before I would get any kind of real offers,” he explained. He said that landing the role in Phantom almost immediately after finishing school, “was a matter of shock. Lineberger, a 2014 graduate of Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma, moved to New York City after college and hoped to land some smaller roles, make a name for himself, and dreamed of one day becoming a star. “It’s a different kind of storytelling to bring it up to the 21st Century audience. When you contrast with the original production, they use a lot of broad strokes, a lot of curtains to create a facade, it’s not necessarily a huge set.” “While I wouldn’t necessarily go as far to say it’s better, I would say that it is different,” Storm continued. Paul Brown, the set designer, one of the things he was trying to accomplish was make everything a little more real and different.” That is done by much bigger set pieces and more scenery per scene. The show is, in fact, physically larger than the original production. In a recent phone interview, Storm Lineberger, who plays Raoul in the production, tells us that when critics call the show “bigger and better,” that it is, “a quite literal comment. Hailed by critics as “bigger and better than ever,” Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber timeless classic, The Phantom of the Opera, opens in Cleveland tomorrow night (June 15) with performances through July 10.
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