Headlining the most successful entertainment of all time, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Michael Crawford was actually not the first name the creative team considered for the gothic musical undertaking during its creation in the mid-1980s, believe it or not. Steve Harley famously recorded the original single of the title song with composer Lord Andrew Lloyd Webbers muse Sarah Brightman and subsequently starred in the gran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PM on February 14, 2012