I completely LOVE Phantom, I have seen it 3 times before, so I decided to take another friend to see it live. I was really looking forward to seeing a different cast as I wanted to see what another Phantom could bring to the part. I have always loved it and have several tattoos of Phantom. The cast was completely brilliant, well all apart from Marcus Lovett, now his soft singing was completely brilliant and I thought that was very good but for me and my friend it was the loud notes that we found extremely disappointing because he shouted them instead of singing them, if he could just not shout them he would be superb! i am going back to see it in August and unless he can contain himself I am hoping that he has finished his run or is on holiday. The Phantom if my favourite character and it just didn't do it for me, i don't mind some spit flying when he gets miffed but when you are over singing the lines and it's flying all over the place it's a bit much, at one point if I was Christine I wouldn't have been able to resist wiping my face. I was sad because other than those notes he was really, really good. The rest of the cast were superb and I have to admit it's the first time I have found Raoul attractive! Here's hoping he's better in August. Normally it would have been 5 stars but I just can't this time as I came away from my weekend as a die hard Phantom fan with this particular one third on my list of shows that I had seen (normally it would have been number 1 no matter what else I had seen). And I normally completely break down towards the end when Phantom sings "Christine, I love you" but I just didn't feel it this time at all.