Latest Phantom of the opera Podcast Episodes
Philip Griffiths: Finding Musicals
Brewing Actors Podcast - March 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. In this fifth episode, Adam Robert Lewis continues his conversation with Philip Griffiths. In Part 1 we discussed Philip’s journey through his training and his early career within Opera. We pick up with Philip’s first professional job outside of Opera with Barry Stacey...
Philip Griffiths: Tenacity & Perseverance
Brewing Actors Podcast - March 13, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutesSend us a Text Message. In this fourth episode, Adam Robert Lewis sits down with Philip Griffiths. A fellow welshman who grew up in Mid-Wales. Philip spent most of his youth in and out of local eisteddfods giving him a taste for life on stage. Moving away from rural Wales, Philip trained in Ope...
Philip Griffiths: Tenacity & Perseverance
Brewing Actors Podcast - March 13, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutesIn this fourth episode, Adam Robert Lewis sits down with Philip Griffiths. A fellow welshman who grew up in Mid-Wales. Philip spent most of his youth in and out of local eisteddfods giving him a taste for life on stage. Moving away from rural Wales, Philip trained in Opera at Manchester Universi...
Review: Phantom's French Language Debut!
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - February 28, 2020 22:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this first episode of 2020 - Wow! - I review the French language in-concert production of the Lloyd Webber Phantom that ran from January 8th to 26th 2020 in Montreal, Canada. I had the sheer privilege of going twice, and really loved it both times! Although, I also found myself having some f...
Jodie Prenger: It's a Fine Life
Brewing Actors Podcast - February 28, 2020 12:00 - 58 minutesSend us a Text Message. In the third episode of the ‘Brewing Actors’ podcast, Adam Robert Lewis talks with Jodie Prenger. Jodie shot to fame during BBC’s ‘I’d Do Anything’ in search of ‘Nancy’ for the London revival of Oliver produced by Cameron Mackintosh. Jodie was chosen by the voting public...
Lynn Jezzard: Life in Ballet
Brewing Actors Podcast - February 14, 2020 10:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. In this episode Adam Robert Lewis talks to Lynn Jezzard a former ballet dancer who rose through the ranks of Northern Ballet to become principal in many of their classic productions. Lynn discusses her humble beginnings in South East England and her early experiences of ...
Mark Hedges: On/Off Stage
Brewing Actors Podcast - January 28, 2020 20:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. In the first episode of the ‘Brewing Actors’ podcast, Adam Robert Lewis talks with Mark Hedges. Hedges is currently resident director for Phantom of the Opera, along with many other impressive shows under his belt and a wealth of theatrical experience. From centrestage t...
1.1 Mark Hedges: On\Off Stage
Brewing Actors Podcast - January 28, 2020 20:00 - 1 hourIn the first episode of the ‘Brewing Actors’ podcast, Adam Robert Lewis talks with Mark Hedges. Hedges is currently resident director for Phantom of the Opera, along with many other impressive shows under his belt and a wealth of theatrical experience. From centrestage to behind-the-scenes, the ...
When All Is Lost: Environmental Justice In A POTO Phanfic
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - December 18, 2019 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, in honour of COP25 (the climate negotiations that just took place at the UN) and the students striking for climate justice, I discuss the amazing Phanfic When All Is Lost by Quiet2885. I talk about what environmental justice is, and explore how it’s thoroughly woven into the plo...
This The Phantom's Opera: The Magic of Haunting In POTO
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - November 12, 2019 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHappy belated Halloween/Samhain everyone!! In this slightly belated (Oops, sorry about that) Halloween/Samhain episode, I talk about haunting in POTO! I explore what it means when the haunting isn’t by the ghost or spirit of a deceased victim of injustice, but a living, breathing human-being. ...
Denied Me and Betrayed Me: Thoughts On the Lawrence Connor Production
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - September 05, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWow!! This is the first episode of the second year of the podcast!! Is that not cool? Anyway, in this episode, I discuss the recent U.K. and U.S./Canada touring productions of the ALW Phantom directed by Lawrence Connor. I discuss some of the changes he’s made from the original, and why some ...
Tribute to Hal Prince #RIPHalPrince
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - August 29, 2019 22:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA tribute to Phantom’s legendary director Hal Prince, who sadly passed away on July 31 2019 at the age of 91 after a truly awesome and ground-breaking career that spanned nearly seven decades, winning him 21 Tony awards and transforming the modern musical stage! The whole music-theatre world, an...
RIP Kevin Jackson!
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - July 27, 2019 22:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSharing some very sad news. Kevin Jackson, co-founder and co-organizer of the Toronto Disability Pride March @TDPM, has recently passed away very suddenly. RIP Kevin, and huge condolences to all the friends, family and colleagues he leaves behind, especially to his fiancee! Also, his fiancee i...
Journey to a Strange New World: Queer/Crip Desire in the ALW Phantom
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - July 26, 2019 21:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, which marks the 1-year #podiversary of the show - Wow!!, I celebrate both that and #Pride2019 by exploring how the ALW stage-musical of Phantom actually contains a lot of Queer Crip sexuality and desire! I also run a little non-competitive contest for folks to win a poster-versi...
The Angel's Flight: A Review of The Angels of Music Series Book 2 by Louise Anne Bateman!
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - June 07, 2019 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this rather overdue episode (Oops, sorry about that), I finally review The Angel’s Flight by Louise Anne Bateman - the sequel to The Angel’s Shadow and second book in her Angels of Music series. In particular, I review the really superb full-cast dramatized audiobook of the novel! Btw, corre...
What Makes You Beautiful: Interview with Bridget Liang.
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - April 26, 2019 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this awesome, extended episode, I interview local Toronto author and activist Bridget Liang about their recently released young-adult novel What Makes You Beautiful, all about a bunch of Queer/Trans youth and a highschool production of Phantom! We talk musicals, gender, Queerness, surviving t...
From Christine to the Khanum: Femininity in Phantom
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - April 01, 2019 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this (slightly belated - LOL Oops) episode in honour of International Women’s Day, I talk about gender in Phantom. In particular, I explore what the Leroux novel, the ALW musical and the novel by Susan Kay do with femininity, and how they all present subtle but powerful critiques of the domin...
Christine, I Love You! - Romantic Relationships In POTO #ValentinesDay
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - February 14, 2019 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this first episode of 2019, because it’s Valentine’s Day, I talk about romance in Phantom! I explore how the ALW stage-musical contrasts two distinct versions of romantic relationship, one decidedly heteronormative, and one more daring and potentially radical. P.S., Heads-up for very mild re...
For the Love of Torture Chambers.... Chapters 22-24
Box Five - January 07, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSaving Christine isn’t as easy as one would think! Not only are Raoul and the Persian deep under the ground in the cellars of the Paris Opera… They are also in an African Forest! Christine Daae is in trouble, it is raining cats and dogs, and GUNPOWDER! Jump back into chapters 22-24 of the Phanto...
Review: The Angel's Shadow by Louise Anne Bateman
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - December 24, 2018 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, I review Louise Anne Bateman’s Phanfic novel The Angel’s Shadow, book 1 of her Angels of Music Saga. In particular, I review her superb full-cast audio-dramatization of the book! Although, I discuss aspects of the plot, characters and Ms. Bateman’s excellent writing as well. S...
Masquerade: from Poe to ALW
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - November 21, 2018 20:15 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, I explore the famous Masquerade scenes found in both the original Leroux novel and the ALW stage-musical. I look at the original short story, Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, that they’re based on, and some of the ways that story has been interpreted. And then I expl...
My Power Over You Grows Stronger Yet!
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - October 31, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI’m back finally! And in this episode, I talk about obsession. I discuss obsession in the story of Phantom a bit, but I mostly discuss the experience of being an obsessed Phan. And I try to tie it in to the history of obsession in Western culture and medicine, and think a bit about how obsessi...
The Persian and A Vicomte Walk through a Mirror... Chapters 19-21
Box Five - October 31, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhat happens when a Vicomte and a Daroga pair up to save a kidnapped diva? A whole lotta walking and not a lot of listening (We're looking at you Vicomte). Dive in to chapters 19-21 of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. Found out Emily's ultimate ship and how Maggie has trouble saying a p...
Halloween Special: So you think you know The Phantom of the Opera
Box Five - October 31, 2018 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA Halloween Special where Maggie and Emily go head to head with a tricky quiz all about The Phantom of the Opera! Warning: Maggie is quite competitive and swears words ensue.
Hippity hoppity money' s on the way. Chapters 16 - 18
Box Five - October 22, 2018 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWho would've thought The Easter Bunny and The Phantom would have anything in common? This week Maggie and Emily do their best to decipher what is going in the Opera House! Where's Christine and what is the deal with that safety pin!
Ghost or Cat? Trapdoor or Magic? Safety Pin or Crazy Men? Chapter 13-15
Box Five - October 16, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAngel or Father, Friend, or Cat! Who is it there staring? Raoul knows not. And neither do we. Join Maggie and Emily as they cover chapter 13, 14 & 15 of The Phantom of the Opera novel! Also, you wouldn't happen to have a safety pin would you?
Raoul! Erik! Christine! César! Chapter 10-12
Box Five - October 08, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week we have hit the Phantom motherload! We have officially gone through the mirror, removed masks, and planned a great escape! Check in with Maggie and Emily as they discuss Chapters 10 - 12 and get caught up on Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, The Phantom of the Opera!
A Tragedy for Everyone! Chapter 7-9
Box Five - October 01, 2018 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode we explore kidnapped horses, brougham rides, and gold embroidery . Catch up on Gaston' Leroux's Phantom of the Opera: Chapters 7, 8, & 9 with Maggie and Emily! Also, find who won our first Insta-Giveaway!
Raoul stole Christine's Heart and Kanye stole my look - Chapter 4-6
Box Five - September 24, 2018 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe are getting into some juicy stuff here people! We learn about Christine's past, we discover that Mame Giry has a weakness for chocolate, the Phantom likes a footstool, the managers are in a tizzy, and Raoul misses his train.
Your Spirit And My Voice!
In This Labyrinth: Justice From the Heart of The Phantom Of The Opera - September 22, 2018 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, I explore the critical role Phantom and becoming a Phan played in shaping my Disabled identity and politics, and how the Phantom’s spirit helped me find my voice as a Disabled person! I share this in honour of Toronto Disability Pride 2018, which is today. So happy Disability P...