Cuccioli to return to WBT for Phantom!
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Just got the word that when “Phantom” resumes at Westchester Broadway Theatre on Dec. 27, the lead role will be played by … Robert Cuccioli.
Cuccioli—as you’ve read here, often—just finished a successful run as Cervantes/Quijana/Quixote in the White Plains Performing Arts Center’s “Man of La Mancha.â€? He was riveting.
I’ve heard plenty about how great he was as Erik, the Phantom, in the Yeston-Kopit musical that put the dinner theater on the map back in 1992. He played the role again in a 1996 revival.
But I didn’t, for a second, think he’d come back for a third time to play the role. I didn’t think it because Cuccioli had told me as much, point blank, when we spoke in a Midtown rehearsal hall last month.
I asked him if he would have returned to Phantom if WBT producers Bill Funking and Bob Stutler had called him before WPPAC’s Jack Batman had, and he flat-out said No. He said he’d done the role and was ready to move on.
Never say never, I guess.
The happiest guys on the planet? Funking and Stutler. Sounds like they should be planning to extend “Phantom” beyond its planned early-February closing.
Santa came early.
“Phantom” resumes Dec. 27. The box office is at 914-592-2222.
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