OBSESSED!: Rebecca Luker and the "Phantom" Puker

[@JordiekinsxxReal]

Rest In Peace, sweet lady. 🤍

[@jakewadkins6840]

Rest In EVERLASTING Peace, a VERY talented, beautiful, kind woman, mother, wife and actress

[@peesha4742]

Does anyone else rewatch these because you’ve seen them all and you are desperate for more?

[@uhmno7944]

peesha I rewatch the Wicked people knowing I’m probably not gonna be Elphie but I wanna be NessaRose

[@tinytop1718]

So glad this was captured forever, RIP Rebecca!

[@floriansigmund4181]

Bless her heart and soul. May she rest in peace. 2020 comes at such a cost.

[@c.w.r.794]

RIP Rebecca Marian Maria Christine Nellie (1961-2020) 💔

[@patbulfin5459]

Don't forget Magnolia and Mrs. Banks.

[@emma4817]

@@patbulfin5459And Lily!

[@williamschroeder3070]

Rest In Peace. A beautiful voice; a gift she shared with us.

[@inmyprime]

I remember seeing her as Marian on Broadway and just got CHILLS when she hit that last note of "My White Knight." I'm so glad she worked hard to get into the show.

[@whitneyspears793]

me too!

[@im-hit]

Woww great voice, RIP

[@TheBlondeBomb1000]

Omg, so full of life, talent and beauty. I still can't believe she's gone!

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

She was so great in Music Man. I saw her with both Craig Bierko and Eric McCormack. She was amazing.

[@EnzFab73]

RIP sweet angel.

[@ardenteresalewis4494]

Just wanted to hear her voice today. Thank you for preserving her stories forever. And she mentions Jay Binder who also passed. RIP both❤️

[@Silver54ful]

Love her!!! One of my all-time favorite Christine performers. Then her rendition of My White Night. Mind blowing! For goodness sakes Broadway and West End. Write more legit soprano roles please!

[@narcissus2626]

Rest in Peace, to a Bright Star

[@ragtmt15]

RIP such a talent. She will be missed

[@SoulShines4Music]

I was fortunate enough to see Rebeca Luker perform the role of Magnolia in Livent's production of Show Boat in Toronto back in 1993. She was absolutely amaaazing. I also adore her performance in The Secret Garden. Her version of How Could I Know is the gold standard I compare all others too. Such a beautiful voice!!

[@stephanie8417]

Rest In Peace, Angel

[@willec7105]

She has the purest and most beautiful voice ever. What a wonderful artist and person. R.I.P.

[@TenorReacts]

Just recently found out. Rebecca, thank you for sharing your gift and talent. Our Angel of Music 🙏🏻🌹

[@Dathan]

RIP Rebecca. So beautiful in so many ways.

[@SkittlesSarahxx]

Rest In Peace beautiful x

[@rosemcesw]

I saw her in Cinderella tonight and she was incredible! And so so nice. She told me and my friends that we looked like actors.

[@GeeBee909]

Broadway people are special people and Rebecca Luker was one them. She will always be remembered

[@TomIdelson]

I simply cannot believe she is gone..Thank god for videos and recordings

[@whatdoyousuppose]

CHILLS at her My White Knight, Rebecca Luker is simply marvelous :)

[@orion8835]

beautiful tone and performer.

[@lighthouse-lh3ci]

Haha! Saw her tell this story in Sierra Boggess' "Daae Days." :D

[@lighthouse-lh3ci]

To clarify, the All I Ask of You story

[@dianaaljadeff2983]

I saw, Rebecca as Magnolia in Show Boat and she was marveleus one of the best Broadway sopranos I ever heard.Sadly she is with ALS now. Lets pray for her

[@whitneyspears793]

such an amazing talent and a lovely woman!

[@jimjimmyjames59]

What a beautiful voice!!!

[@Lgevirtz]

Rebecca Luker, RIP

[@FelizNAVIDad293]

RIP ❤️

[@shmykiebransky4517]

Such an amazing and beautiful voice. So terribly sad and unfair. I hope that she is in a joyful place.

[@allezshazam]

Miss her!

[@songthief9560]

I hear Rebecca Luker is an Aries, I love her drive-- with no dancing background whatsoever she taught herself to go en pointe for the role. And nobody gets near the magical beauty of her voice, greatest sung Christine ever. Her performance with Steve Barton was a dream.

[@carolinejamesonactor]

Rest In Peace, strong lady 🤍

[@johnrondeau220]

I think I met her at the late Soprano, Chloe Owens studio in NYC

[@edisonthethird]

Rest In Peace! I’m so sad 😭

[@itsmefilipce]

Rest in peace❤️ angel!

[@71crm]

I’ve been watching a lot of videos of Rebecca Luker since hearing of her passing. It reminds me of an Ancient Chinese story I had once heard about an emperor who had lost his storyteller wife and begged a priest to bring her back to life. Instead, the priest made a shadow puppet of the emperor’s wife and the emperor was not sad anymore. I guess KZbin is like what the shadow puppet was in that story.

[@SergeantWaddle]

Love that Pippin reference there

[@hziegler]

Love her voice, Rebecca Luker is a total class act.

[@makeittrue]

Totally agree! :)

[@jessc5340]

Rest in everlasting peace, diva.

[@-_emcee_-]

RIP Rebecca Luker ❤️❤️❤️

[@joecascone2189]

R.I.P. Rebecca Luker. What a loss! :o(

[@angharadr862]

Rest In Peace ❤❤

[@dianaaljadeff2983]

Rip Marveleus Rebecca here in a marveleus interview .

[@ethanrrb]

Beautiful voice !! Sooo nice.

[@PaulTheillusionist]

She is amazing!

[@CliffMcAulay]

Beautiful and talented lady. R.I.P. Rebecca.

[@luprano]

Heartbroken 😪

[@ernlwjr2]

Beautiful!!!❤

[@MiaKay22]

Rest In Peace sweet Rebecca 💛

[@c004857]

Rest in paradise beautiful lady.

[@johnkarlquist7787]

Love her.

[@johnfrank25]

She is still my favorite "Christine" in "Phantom!"

[@brookemartin6101]

Was that last note Really That long or Did Seth make her hold it!?. Stunning voice, Stunning breath control!.

[@AKoooooooo]

i'm so curious at what point during think of me did christine use to go en pointe. i've watched a few clips of early christines, including rebecca luker, and i'm just not seeing it. prior to - during the dance sequences, sure, but the actual song? what am i missing?

[@Averia89]

I just died, yes!!!

[@becqueolson8266]

So the story I heard is that My White Knight was not written by Meredith Willson, but by his mentor Frank Loesser - because it took so long for MW to write his songs and the stage producers wanted a song in that spot for Marian. Once he had time, Willson wrote Being In Love for that spot and MWK was cut from the film.

[@davidfleischer455]

Read Willson's book about the 10 years it took him to write Music Man, no question he is saying he wrote all those songs including MWK. Barbara Cook has also talked about all the ways the song changed, so I think the evidence is pretty strong for Willson being the lyricist and composer.

[@lisa-mariegray5510]

It's so sad that the ALS (Lou Gehrigs) is making it hard for her to sing. Her voice was so beautiful. She is still amazing and very beautiful.

[@grandcarriage1]

Holy shit balls. Talk about voice control. Amazing!

[@k.hizzle5376]

R.I.P Rebecca 😭💔

[@sunshineeee]

Oml love the Pippin reference 😂😂😂

[@ellsrustia6329]

Thank you and goodbye Rebecca ❤

[@southernlady5085]

RIP. May God receive you in the arms of his everlasting peace.

[@dougr.2398]

Hé & she were the topic of Terry Gross’ « Fresh Air » yesterday. I’m so sorry I did not know of her until now and wish her well (She has ALS and the man hère, her husband, has COVID residual issues). What an amazing couple!!

[@willman18696]

rip Rebecca Luker

[@ernlwjr2]

Brava!!!

[@2pensiero]

Rebecca , she is wonderful , I love her !!

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

I hope you're recording and video taping the show with Howard McGillan.

[@jeffnally3127]

God, I miss Rebecca....

[@dianavictoriaaljadeff5302]

itas thatwe need more lwgit soprano roles not belters roles;Kelli O Hara has some burt they great sopranos now have few roles writtein for them so they sing the Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews roles.,There are good sopranos now Rebecca, Audra Mac Donald Kelli O Hara,Laura Osness,Sierra Boggess,Laura Benanti,Victoria Clark,Marin Mazzie etc..Adam Guettel and John Robert Brown write for soprano voices and there are few,The same with the men very good singers like Patrick Willson,Steve Pasquale, Bryan Stokes Mitchell,Norm Lewis,Julian Ovenden etc

[@davidfathom3051]

Absolutely! More Soprano and Baritone roles, Broadway!

[@thenygalavant]

RIP Rebecca Luker

[@chanteuse-ro3kf]

Rest in peace dear Rebecca.

[@khonsmosis]

Where were these for the longest time?!

[@ieuanprice5933]

❤️❤️

[@ceebee2]

Oh god, I didn’t know she passed last year; how horrible. I just remember her from Sierra’s Daae Days.

[@harshmnr]

What's the difference between understudy and alternate? ~:~

[@davidfathom3051]

An understudy goes on when the main actor has an unplanned absence (or vacation). An alternate goes on on set dates of a production (for example, every matinee).

[@TamLe-vb5ig]

David Fathom what's matinee

[@Magnitude7]

Tâm Lê A day show as opposed to a night show.

[@dianaaljadeff2983]

My white knight was introduced by Barbara Cook in The Music Man. Meredith Willson wanted a,song from Marian as an answer.of Hill The sadder and wiser girl for me.But he had difficulty to compose the song.He and Barbara told that he composed many versions if the song including a longer one she sang in her 1975 Carnegie Hall concert .Finally he composed and she sang the final one that Rebecca Luker sang here.She sang again unmiked in the Cook s 88 birthday tribute in 2015. This song wasnt sung by Shirley Jones in the 1962 movie. She sang Being in love instead .Only Cook Luker and Kristyn Chenoweth and few other sopranos sang this operatic song. I think that Sutton Foster who is a belter not a soprano will sing Being in love because I dont think she can sing this song where you need a great lyric soprano not a belter..Listen to Rebecca Luker here and pray for her health because she has ALS now.

[@davidfleischer455]

Sutton sang My White Knight and was amazing, really catching the most important lines in the song, "thinks of me more than himself, and more than of us than of me" -- she got massive applause with each of these lines in the middle of the song and so earned it! All that said, Rebecca Luker's version here is so heart-felt and powerfully sung, whoever said you get chills listening to her is so right!

[@fishfoodlad]

On Seth's website!

[@anthonyyoung-ovalle8625]

Rip

[@JonathanBontragerWaite]

Leading Player!!

[@samara.ariel.jpg_]

Your memory will be such a blessing angel🖤🎼🤍 You will always be my favorite christine. I know one day i will fulfill the shoes of chrstine daaé as a Queer AfroColombian Indigneous Jewsih Woman , and grew up with my adoptive mother working with for broadway including all the original phatom. , i told him before he passed i would be the first Queer colombian Mixed race christine. It will come true🕯🎭 #halprincekid #broadwayghostgirl

[@Rcity2332]

Leading player??? Plays Magic to do 😂

[@nicholastyler2714]

Hahaha that's all I ask of ME!

[@GD-ec2xu]

Her voice reminds me of Barbara cook

[@ryanmcdonald9050]

[@matthewmastrobuono582]

I’d have loved to see her without raoul! Omg that must’ve been hilarious!

[@sadiemeltzer3285]

rest in peace angel❤️