Anthony Crivello

Matthew Murray of Broadway Stars writes:

As the Phantom, Anthony Crivello ranks among the best I’ve seen, and is certainly one of the scariest: He plays, more than anyone else, the frightened child trapped within the man’s twisted body, and stalks about the stage as a tortured mass of impetuous anger leavened only by the hope that love isn’t forever beyond his grasp. His falsetto renderings of his songs’ more tender passages (especially in “The Music of the Night”) are caressingly lovely, his booming threats startling with their intensity, and his final moments equally comical and pitiful, when so many actors lose them in the harried act of wrapping up the plot.

Crivello, shorn of that responsibility by the revisions that reduce the story to a bullet-point-riddled PowerPoint presentation, succeeds because of his fearlessness to plumb the depths of what makes men men. More than ever before, you see his Phantom as the alpha male to Raoul’s prim metrosexual, the natural force balancing out the miracle of modern engineering. It’s a battle that he’s not destined to win. And it turns out only slightly better for the Phantom presenting his gorgeous-looking but pared-down story to audiences traditionally more interested in the surface-over-substance issues the Phantom himself rails so violently against.

Anthony Crivello as shell shocked Vietnam vet opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff in “Material Girls” - 2006

Here’s a short video from Phantom of the Opera, the Las Vegas Spectacular, starring Anthony Crivello:

In a year-end tribute to the best entertainment in Las Vegas, “Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular” came out on top! Here’s what Las Vegas Review-Journal writer Mike Weatherford had to say:

Chances are, you already know whether you like this musical. If it’s not your favorite, you might still enjoy this relaunch, which loses alot of the flat humor and repetitious music in a fastidiously pruned 95-minute edition. That brings full focus to the Gothic atmosphere of the custom theater at The Venetian, the top-notch performances and the hands-on direction by Hal Prince.

Anthony Crivello, a 1993 TonyAward winner for “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” is one of the double-cast leads in The Venetian-based “Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular,”which offers top-notch performances down to the smallest roles

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Another review of Phantom, this time in Las Vegas Weekly…

And as the Phantom, Anthony Crivello (alternating with Brent Barrett)—possessor of some powerful pipes—conquers the script cuts to create a compelling Phantom, his portrayal transcending terror to reach a tenderness that gives the piece its poignancy. His presence echoes throughout the show, a galvanizing force that’s present onstage even when he’s not.

Simultaneously slimmed down and bulked up for Strip success, Phantom—The Las Vegas Spectacular is a grand, glam, goose-bumpy good time.

Las Vegas Weekly

A review in the Toronto Star mentions among other things…

if you’re looking for a tortured demon with arresting intensity, you might prefer Anthony Crivello (seen in Toronto in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Jane Eyre).

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Check out this review in the Chicago Tribune (link below)…

In the new, shortened “Phantom,” all the famous (or, depending on your point of view, infamous) emotional ditties are present and correct to the very last warbling note — “All I Ask of You,” “The Music of the Night” and the title number. The orchestra is full, lush and Broadway-size. The story is involving and perfectly clear. And both the Phantom (played, at the performance I saw, by the surprisingly edgy Anthony Crivello) and Christine (beautifully but unpretentiously sung by Elizabeth Loyacano) have more than enough time to give their characters considerable emotional oomph.

Nothing lost in shorter Las Vegas `Phantom’ | Chicago Tribune

Anthony was recently interviewed in regards to Phantom of the Opera,

now playing in Las Vegas at The Venetian Resort…

He is known for taking risky roles: a serial killer in the rock opera The News; a revolutionary political prisoner in Kander and Ebb’s Kiss of the Spider Woman; a narcissistic sea captain in Michael John LaChiusa’s Marie Christine. But in the new Las Vegas production of Broadway’s longest-running musical, Tony-winner Anthony Crivello is donning the mask and cape of that most iconic of titular roles in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom–The Las Vegas Spectacular, and taking on the challenge of recreating a legendary role.

“It’s such a rich, wonderful character,” he says of his latest role. “There’s so much depth for an actor to play with.” Twenty years after the show’s premiere in the West End, the original creators have reunited to give it new life in Las Vegas. Harold Prince himself has returned to overview this simultaneously abridged and expanded vision of his most popular success at The Venetian Resort, where a new stage was built to accommodate the show. Both Mr. Prince and Lord Webber wanted to make sure that “the integrity of the piece, the emotional throughline and horror [were] completely maintained” in the 90-minute version of the musical, and Mr. Crivello describes their involvement as very “hands-on.” The performance space itself, designed by David Rockwell of the Rockwell Group, “rivals any great opera house in the United States. It’s not too bold to say that this production has the magnitude of something you would see on the Metropolitan Opera stage,” Mr. Crivello says. “With the budget they were able to work with here in Las Vegas, it’s like a brand-new production.”

Anthony Crivello: Creating and Re-Creating (BroadwayWorld.com)

Check out photos of Anthony and others at Phantom of the Opera Photo Gallery - AOL Vegas

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