Until two weeks ago, when the double whammy of the U.S. The ensemble to which Bibb belongs is one of 10 troupes doing the show around the world. It's just that The Phantom has hardly any spoken dialogue." "I think Webber is still writing for the musical theater. It's just that they're writing more music - there's less speaking and that's what makes people think the shows are more along the lines of opera," Bibb says. "It's not as if the composers like Webber and Claude-Michel Schonberg (Les Miserables) are trying to write more operatically. Bibb says several important roles are filled with opera singers who never had appeared in musical theater. Other roles in the production are similarly demanding, and that was largely responsible for casting opera singers from the Chicago area when director Prince went into rehearsal there. It's the largest role I've ever done and the range is a little over 2 1/2 octaves." "It's grueling, also because of the amount of music we're asked to sing. She's off for one little scene in the first act, but the rest of the time, when she's not there she's changing frantically into a new costume and being pushed back out.
"Christine is basically on stage the whole show. "It's a lot like a 24-hour-per-day thing, so you really have to take care of yourself. "I'm just finding out how incredibly demanding it is," she says.
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