Why can’t I see these PBS Broadcasts when living abroad? I’s from Curaçao. One of the 6 Dutch islands just off the coast of Venezuela. I’m not American and don’t live in USA. Isn’t there a way you can pay to watch these performances?

Wow, what an applause and standing ovation🤩👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

❤❤Los UN SOLO ENCANTO. NO ME CANSO DE MIRARLOS SIN FALTA TODAS LAS NOCHES.❤❤❤❤

The Phantom I first knew...and my sentimental favorite.

even if others thought he stunk in dotv it didnt destroy me as a fan

I always thought Crawford was the best ALW Phantom not just because he was “first”, but because of his combination of aesthetic, body language, and vocals. The actors after him were brilliant, but they seemed to miss the original aesthetic. The Phantom was always supposed to be a menacing dungeon-dweller with a underlying sensitive side, not a masked playboy-looking bad boy like in later interpretations. Take this video for example: the way Crawford tilts his head and moves his hands while menacingly singing “I am your Angel of Music!” He nailed the Chaney feel.

Who knew that all these years later we would all have to say good bye to such a powerful character Michael created for the world. This show inspired so many people. It's been a monumental piece of the theater world.

Thank you to whoever posted this. It's wonderful!

My biggest regret is that I was never able to see him perform this part on stage.

Lovely!

My mother saw Michael in London as the Phantom

The ONLY Phantom! Also only one Kuralt.

just some quotes that pulled at my heartstrings: "I have to dive into this imaginary character, deep into his soul. I've found that I care about what I've found in there. And I have a genuine love playing him. And for the love he has for the girl... and for his music. He has such wonderful passion. He suffers rejection, which we all do in one form or another at some point in our lives, if we're brave enough to love. If you can dive that deep, and then hear that overture with the music and the dialogue you have available to you, I think they'll go along on that journey with you because they listen. They can hear how deep it's coming from." [Interviewer: You ever think to yourself, 'When I get done with this I'm gonna get myself a nice show that involves maybe ten minutes of makeup a night and then comes off with cold cream and that's it?'] "Um, well, yes but I'd miss... I'd miss him. I'll miss him when I leave him behind. Yeah 'cause he's been a... a good friend."

Where did the video of the title song come from?

WOW!♥️♥️♥️

Every time I watch this or ANY clip showing any of HIS performances, for HE - Michael Crawford - will be my ONLY real phantom, I can't ever stop the many tears that I have NO power to stop. I was not fortunate enough to see him live and to my knowledge MacIntosh or none of the other producers ever bothered filming live stage performances for US POOR SOULS who were never able to see HIM, playing the dear DEAR Erik! I've lost SO many tears over this, my all-time biggest regret of my life (I'm 50 now) and was just about to turn 18 when he landed on Broadway, and had spent a year learning Christine's part at the behest of my teacher for the sole purpose of training my voice more. And once I'd finally hit Christine's top high E, I was instantly "her." Also, my connection to it all is more deep as my birthday is in the original novel I'd done a book rpt on in early school yrs and left me sobbing by its end. So once I'd learned ALL of her notes, hearing Erik (AND Michael) singing to ME, the Christine who truly loved him, with his angelic voice; and my plans to get to NYC and corner Hal Prince to sing for him, fell through. I have no words for the grief and actual PANGS I felt and I wish I could tell Michael. (Sigh) (: ' (

Ah, that wistful look in his eyes when asked if he's going to be happy having a more comfortable, less grueling job after leaving the Phantom is not only why Michael Crawford has owned a good portion of my heart since I have been lucky enough to know of him, but the very reason that majestic character will remain his, forever, and ever . Despite him literally wincing in pain 2 seconds before and clearly exhausted, he clearly is not ready to let go of his Phantom, his friend.I very much hope despite all the years that have come and gone he has never fully let go of him yet.

i am so beyond depressed that Michael never got to do the movie. If they had done it like they had done the stage, i would've had to have bought more than 1 copy. it would've been burned out from being watched constantly and then replaced and a back up.

I love this man ❤

Best Phantom ever ❤

I am filling up. What a wonderful performance by two commensurate actors and vocalists! Thank you so much for posting this. 🥰👍

Is that a red death clip of Michael from the Los Angeles show or the original Broadway cast?

I love a lot of things about the way Crawford portrays the phantom but one of my most favourite things is his hands - I can tell he studied Chaney’s version of Phantom because just like him he relies on his hands to express emotion. What a fantastic man! I could write essays on how amazing he portrayed this phantom :)

Thank you for posting this video, it was lovely to reminisce about the Phantom as portrayed by the magnificent Michael be Crawford.

MC is so grateful and really humbled by the phenomenon the show has become. It is clear his humility is genuine too - every actor hopes for that one part that will make HIS interpretation of it live long long after he is gone. Mr. Crawford knows what a gift that is and he made the most of that opportunity. What a hard working man too.

That clip from angel of music 🤩🤩🤩

My top 5 phantoms 1. Michael Crawford 2. Timothy Nolen 3. Peter Hofmann 4. Mark Mckerracher 5. Colin Wilkinson

Please play the phantom one more time :(

God bless you Michael. You were the first i saw along with Sarah Brightman. And then i saw two performances one with John Owen-Jones and one with Ramin Karimloo BOTH with Sierra Boggess. So i feel blessed that i got to see THE BEST phantoms and christine's perform there respective parts.

Julie what would the world do without you? You are a gem, a treasure, there is no other star like you! You are a singular sensation of all times!

I saw Michael Crawford as the original Phantom in London in the early 1980s. Mesmerising & memorable.

Thanks for this video moves one to tears hearing the awesome applause when Julie Andrews sang! Love her! So much elegance, a class act ! Incredible talent. Beautiful inside & out!

Welp I would have married Michael Crawford if I were his age. That's just it, guys. I'd marry him now, even. 😃

The best and forever the best, followed by Hugh Parnaro and Peter Joback.

MICHAEL CRAWFORD, THE GREATEST "PHANTOM OF THE OPERA"--------

THIS VIDEO IS WONDERFUL, MICHAEL CRAWFORD AND JULIE ANDREWS !!!!!!!

1:07 -that Phantomy laugh!! :)

I know this is really stupid to say but: SHIP!

Don't you just love how everyone just exploded to hear Julie Andrews singing again? And Michael Crawford is just so perfect in the role of Henry Higgins. What a wonderful performance!

I think I just died. My 2 favourites on stage together

😎 thank god he was phantom

Excellent

Great

I Julies name too long to write??????

That's what you call ledgendary.

5:10 I'm dying.

Love his interpretation of the beginning, I could listen to him scream that all day!

Julie Andrews is wonderful...as well as Michael Crawford.

He knew it was Julie, but he must have been in near panic because he likes to rehearse every little move THOROUGHLY, and there wasn't time.

I've been told that Micheal was asked at the last minute to do this My Fair Lady bit because the star who was to do it that night got ill.. He was also unaware that the lady he would be doing it with was the very famous Julie Andrews! If fact no one else knew it either because she was in the audience that night and she told the stage people she would do it! Watch Micheals' face when he recognized Julie. Anyway this is what I've been told by some stage hands that were there that night.