OBSESSED!: Rebecca Luker and the "Phantom" Puker

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www.playbill.com/video Now appearing on the big screen in "Sopranos" creator David Chase's new film "Not Fade Away" and set for a two-week engagement at Café Carlyle with Howard McGillin, Rebecca Luker is always on the move. Still, she found time to join Seth in studio for a chat and a song. With the big "Phantom of the Opera" 25th anniversary coming up, the discussion turned to Luker's days in the show and a particularly memorable day working with co-star Davis Gaines. The conversation shifted to Luker's experience fighting for the role of Marian in the 2000 revival of "The Music Man," and ended with Luker singing her signature tune from the show "My White Knight."

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  • @JordiekinsxxReal
    @JordiekinsxxReal3 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace, sweet lady. 🤍

  • @jakewadkins6840
    @jakewadkins68403 жыл бұрын

    Rest In EVERLASTING Peace, a VERY talented, beautiful, kind woman, mother, wife and actress

  • @peesha4742
    @peesha47424 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone else rewatch these because you’ve seen them all and you are desperate for more?

  • @uhmno7944

    @uhmno7944

    4 жыл бұрын

    peesha I rewatch the Wicked people knowing I’m probably not gonna be Elphie but I wanna be NessaRose

  • @tinytop1718
    @tinytop17183 жыл бұрын

    So glad this was captured forever, RIP Rebecca!

  • @c.w.r.794
    @c.w.r.7943 жыл бұрын

    RIP Rebecca Marian Maria Christine Nellie (1961-2020) 💔

  • @patbulfin5459

    @patbulfin5459

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget Magnolia and Mrs. Banks.

  • @floriansigmund4181
    @floriansigmund41813 жыл бұрын

    Bless her heart and soul. May she rest in peace. 2020 comes at such a cost.

  • @mattyspencer
    @mattyspencer3 жыл бұрын

    RIP Rebecca. First thing I thought of when I heard the news was this video. What a voice!

  • @inmyprime
    @inmyprime10 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing her as Marian on Broadway and just got CHILLS when she hit that last note of "My White Knight." I'm so glad she worked hard to get into the show.

  • @whitneyspears793

    @whitneyspears793

    11 ай бұрын

    me too!

  • @williamschroeder3070
    @williamschroeder30703 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace. A beautiful voice; a gift she shared with us.

  • @narcissus2626
    @narcissus26263 жыл бұрын

    Rest in Peace, to a Bright Star

  • @BottleConcreteBlond
    @BottleConcreteBlond10 жыл бұрын

    She was so great in Music Man. I saw her with both Craig Bierko and Eric McCormack. She was amazing.

  • @ragtmt15
    @ragtmt153 жыл бұрын

    RIP such a talent. She will be missed

  • @TheBlondeBomb1000
    @TheBlondeBomb10003 жыл бұрын

    Omg, so full of life, talent and beauty. I still can't believe she's gone!

  • @Silver54ful
    @Silver54ful10 жыл бұрын

    Love her!!! One of my all-time favorite Christine performers. Then her rendition of My White Night. Mind blowing! For goodness sakes Broadway and West End. Write more legit soprano roles please!

  • @stephanie8417
    @stephanie84173 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace, Angel

  • @Dathan
    @Dathan3 жыл бұрын

    RIP Rebecca. So beautiful in so many ways.

  • @ardenteresalewis4494
    @ardenteresalewis44942 жыл бұрын

    Just wanted to hear her voice today. Thank you for preserving her stories forever. And she mentions Jay Binder who also passed. RIP both❤️

  • @willec7105
    @willec71053 жыл бұрын

    She has the purest and most beautiful voice ever. What a wonderful artist and person. R.I.P.

  • @SoulShines4U
    @SoulShines4U7 жыл бұрын

    I was fortunate enough to see Rebeca Luker perform the role of Magnolia in Livent's production of Show Boat in Toronto back in 1993. She was absolutely amaaazing. I also adore her performance in The Secret Garden. Her version of How Could I Know is the gold standard I compare all others too. Such a beautiful voice!!

  • @Lgevirtz
    @Lgevirtz3 жыл бұрын

    Rebecca Luker, RIP

  • @whatdoyousuppose
    @whatdoyousuppose6 жыл бұрын

    CHILLS at her My White Knight, Rebecca Luker is simply marvelous :)

  • @rosemcesw
    @rosemcesw10 жыл бұрын

    I saw her in Cinderella tonight and she was incredible! And so so nice. She told me and my friends that we looked like actors.

  • @SkittlesSarahxx
    @SkittlesSarahxx3 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace beautiful x

  • @im-hit
    @im-hit7 ай бұрын

    Woww great voice, RIP

  • @GeeBee909
    @GeeBee9092 жыл бұрын

    Broadway people are special people and Rebecca Luker was one them. She will always be remembered

  • @lighthouse-lh3ci
    @lighthouse-lh3ci8 жыл бұрын

    Haha! Saw her tell this story in Sierra Boggess' "Daae Days." :D

  • @lighthouse-lh3ci

    @lighthouse-lh3ci

    8 жыл бұрын

    To clarify, the All I Ask of You story

  • @dianaaljadeff2983
    @dianaaljadeff29833 жыл бұрын

    I saw, Rebecca as Magnolia in Show Boat and she was marveleus one of the best Broadway sopranos I ever heard.Sadly she is with ALS now. Lets pray for her

  • @FelizNAVIDad293
    @FelizNAVIDad2933 жыл бұрын

    RIP ❤️

  • @shmykiebransky4517
    @shmykiebransky45172 жыл бұрын

    Such an amazing and beautiful voice. So terribly sad and unfair. I hope that she is in a joyful place.

  • @TenorReacts
    @TenorReacts3 жыл бұрын

    Just recently found out. Rebecca, thank you for sharing your gift and talent. Our Angel of Music 🙏🏻🌹

  • @EnzFab73
    @EnzFab735 ай бұрын

    RIP sweet angel.

  • @orion8835
    @orion88358 жыл бұрын

    beautiful tone and performer.

  • @-_emcee_-
    @-_emcee_-3 жыл бұрын

    RIP Rebecca Luker ❤️❤️❤️

  • @dianaaljadeff2983
    @dianaaljadeff29833 жыл бұрын

    Rip Marveleus Rebecca here in a marveleus interview .

  • @joecascone2189
    @joecascone21893 жыл бұрын

    R.I.P. Rebecca Luker. What a loss! :o(

  • @songthief9560
    @songthief95609 жыл бұрын

    I hear Rebecca Luker is an Aries, I love her drive-- with no dancing background whatsoever she taught herself to go en pointe for the role. And nobody gets near the magical beauty of her voice, greatest sung Christine ever. Her performance with Steve Barton was a dream.

  • @jimjimmyjames59
    @jimjimmyjames598 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful voice!!!

  • @SergeantWaddle
    @SergeantWaddle10 жыл бұрын

    Love that Pippin reference there

  • @hziegler
    @hziegler7 жыл бұрын

    Love her voice, Rebecca Luker is a total class act.

  • @makeittrue

    @makeittrue

    6 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree! :)

  • @edisonthethird
    @edisonthethird3 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace! I’m so sad 😭

  • @itsmefilipce
    @itsmefilipce3 жыл бұрын

    Rest in peace❤️ angel!

  • @71crm
    @71crm3 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been watching a lot of videos of Rebecca Luker since hearing of her passing. It reminds me of an Ancient Chinese story I had once heard about an emperor who had lost his storyteller wife and begged a priest to bring her back to life. Instead, the priest made a shadow puppet of the emperor’s wife and the emperor was not sad anymore. I guess KZread is like what the shadow puppet was in that story.

  • @TomIdelson
    @TomIdelson3 жыл бұрын

    I simply cannot believe she is gone..Thank god for videos and recordings

  • @angharadr862
    @angharadr8623 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace ❤❤

  • @whitneyspears793
    @whitneyspears79311 ай бұрын

    such an amazing talent and a lovely woman!

  • @luprano
    @luprano3 жыл бұрын

    Heartbroken 😪

  • @sadiemeltzer3285
    @sadiemeltzer32853 жыл бұрын

    rest in peace angel❤️

  • @PaulTheillusionist
    @PaulTheillusionist10 жыл бұрын

    She is amazing!

  • @CliffMcAulay
    @CliffMcAulay3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful and talented lady. R.I.P. Rebecca.

  • @ethanrrb
    @ethanrrb5 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful voice !! Sooo nice.

  • @allezshazam
    @allezshazam2 жыл бұрын

    Miss her!

  • @johnfrank25
    @johnfrank2510 жыл бұрын

    She is still my favorite "Christine" in "Phantom!"

  • @grandcarriage1
    @grandcarriage15 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit balls. Talk about voice control. Amazing!

  • @MiaKay22
    @MiaKay223 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace sweet Rebecca 💛

  • @ernlwjr2
    @ernlwjr25 жыл бұрын

    Brava!!!

  • @jessc5340
    @jessc5340 Жыл бұрын

    Rest in everlasting peace, diva.

  • @southernlady5085
    @southernlady50853 жыл бұрын

    RIP. May God receive you in the arms of his everlasting peace.

  • @lisa-mariegray5510
    @lisa-mariegray55104 жыл бұрын

    It's so sad that the ALS (Lou Gehrigs) is making it hard for her to sing. Her voice was so beautiful. She is still amazing and very beautiful.

  • @dougr.2398
    @dougr.23983 жыл бұрын

    Hé & she were the topic of Terry Gross’ « Fresh Air » yesterday. I’m so sorry I did not know of her until now and wish her well (She has ALS and the man hère, her husband, has COVID residual issues). What an amazing couple!!

  • @willman18696
    @willman186963 жыл бұрын

    rip Rebecca Luker

  • @Averia89
    @Averia8910 жыл бұрын

    I just died, yes!!!

  • @2pensiero
    @2pensiero3 жыл бұрын

    Rebecca , she is wonderful , I love her !!

  • @johnkarlquist7787
    @johnkarlquist7787 Жыл бұрын

    Love her.

  • @sunshineeee
    @sunshineeee7 жыл бұрын

    Oml love the Pippin reference 😂😂😂

  • @brookemartin6101
    @brookemartin61012 жыл бұрын

    Was that last note Really That long or Did Seth make her hold it!?. Stunning voice, Stunning breath control!.

  • @ieuanprice5933
    @ieuanprice59333 жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️

  • @thenygalavant
    @thenygalavant3 жыл бұрын

    RIP Rebecca Luker

  • @becqueolson8266
    @becqueolson82663 жыл бұрын

    So the story I heard is that My White Knight was not written by Meredith Willson, but by his mentor Frank Loesser - because it took so long for MW to write his songs and the stage producers wanted a song in that spot for Marian. Once he had time, Willson wrote Being In Love for that spot and MWK was cut from the film.

  • @davidfleischer455

    @davidfleischer455

    Жыл бұрын

    Read Willson's book about the 10 years it took him to write Music Man, no question he is saying he wrote all those songs including MWK. Barbara Cook has also talked about all the ways the song changed, so I think the evidence is pretty strong for Willson being the lyricist and composer.

  • @jeffnally3127
    @jeffnally31273 жыл бұрын

    God, I miss Rebecca....

  • @JonathanBontragerWaite
    @JonathanBontragerWaite9 жыл бұрын

    Leading Player!!

  • @johnrondeau220
    @johnrondeau2202 жыл бұрын

    I think I met her at the late Soprano, Chloe Owens studio in NYC

  • @anthonyyoung-ovalle8625
    @anthonyyoung-ovalle86253 жыл бұрын

    Rip

  • @chanteuse-ro3kf
    @chanteuse-ro3kf2 жыл бұрын

    Rest in peace dear Rebecca.

  • @ellsrustia6329
    @ellsrustia6329 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you and goodbye Rebecca ❤

  • @dianavictoriaaljadeff5302
    @dianavictoriaaljadeff53027 жыл бұрын

    itas thatwe need more lwgit soprano roles not belters roles;Kelli O Hara has some burt they great sopranos now have few roles writtein for them so they sing the Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews roles.,There are good sopranos now Rebecca, Audra Mac Donald Kelli O Hara,Laura Osness,Sierra Boggess,Laura Benanti,Victoria Clark,Marin Mazzie etc..Adam Guettel and John Robert Brown write for soprano voices and there are few,The same with the men very good singers like Patrick Willson,Steve Pasquale, Bryan Stokes Mitchell,Norm Lewis,Julian Ovenden etc

  • @davidfathom3051

    @davidfathom3051

    6 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely! More Soprano and Baritone roles, Broadway!

  • @BottleConcreteBlond
    @BottleConcreteBlond10 жыл бұрын

    I hope you're recording and video taping the show with Howard McGillan.

  • @khonsmosis
    @khonsmosis10 жыл бұрын

    Where were these for the longest time?!

  • @ceebee2
    @ceebee23 жыл бұрын

    Oh god, I didn’t know she passed last year; how horrible. I just remember her from Sierra’s Daae Days.

  • @AKoooooooo
    @AKoooooooo4 ай бұрын

    i'm so curious at what point during think of me did christine use to go en pointe. i've watched a few clips of early christines, including rebecca luker, and i'm just not seeing it. prior to - during the dance sequences, sure, but the actual song? what am i missing?

  • @fishfoodlad
    @fishfoodlad10 жыл бұрын

    On Seth's website!

  • @ryanmcdonald9050
    @ryanmcdonald90503 жыл бұрын

  • @k.hizzle5376
    @k.hizzle53762 жыл бұрын

    R.I.P Rebecca 😭💔

  • @nicholastyler2714
    @nicholastyler27146 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha that's all I ask of ME!

  • @dianaaljadeff2983
    @dianaaljadeff29833 жыл бұрын

    My white knight was introduced by Barbara Cook in The Music Man. Meredith Willson wanted a,song from Marian as an answer.of Hill The sadder and wiser girl for me.But he had difficulty to compose the song.He and Barbara told that he composed many versions if the song including a longer one she sang in her 1975 Carnegie Hall concert .Finally he composed and she sang the final one that Rebecca Luker sang here.She sang again unmiked in the Cook s 88 birthday tribute in 2015. This song wasnt sung by Shirley Jones in the 1962 movie. She sang Being in love instead .Only Cook Luker and Kristyn Chenoweth and few other sopranos sang this operatic song. I think that Sutton Foster who is a belter not a soprano will sing Being in love because I dont think she can sing this song where you need a great lyric soprano not a belter..Listen to Rebecca Luker here and pray for her health because she has ALS now.

  • @davidfleischer455

    @davidfleischer455

    Жыл бұрын

    Sutton sang My White Knight and was amazing, really catching the most important lines in the song, "thinks of me more than himself, and more than of us than of me" -- she got massive applause with each of these lines in the middle of the song and so earned it! All that said, Rebecca Luker's version here is so heart-felt and powerfully sung, whoever said you get chills listening to her is so right!

  • @samara.ariel.jpg_
    @samara.ariel.jpg_3 жыл бұрын

    Your memory will be such a blessing angel🖤🎼🤍 You will always be my favorite christine. I know one day i will fulfill the shoes of chrstine daaé as a Queer AfroColombian Indigneous Jewsih Woman , and grew up with my adoptive mother working with for broadway including all the original phatom. , i told him before he passed i would be the first Queer colombian Mixed race christine. It will come true🕯🎭 #halprincekid #broadwayghostgirl

  • @harshmnr
    @harshmnr7 жыл бұрын

    What's the difference between understudy and alternate? ~:~

  • @davidfathom3051

    @davidfathom3051

    6 жыл бұрын

    An understudy goes on when the main actor has an unplanned absence (or vacation). An alternate goes on on set dates of a production (for example, every matinee).

  • @TamLe-vb5ig

    @TamLe-vb5ig

    6 жыл бұрын

    David Fathom what's matinee

  • @Magnitude7

    @Magnitude7

    6 жыл бұрын

    Tâm Lê A day show as opposed to a night show.

  • @Rcity2332
    @Rcity23329 жыл бұрын

    Leading player??? Plays Magic to do 😂

  • @GD-ec2xu
    @GD-ec2xu3 жыл бұрын

    Her voice reminds me of Barbara cook

  • @matthewmastrobuono582
    @matthewmastrobuono582 Жыл бұрын

    I’d have loved to see her without raoul! Omg that must’ve been hilarious!

  • @carolinejameson3167
    @carolinejameson31673 жыл бұрын

    Rest In Peace, strong lady 🤍

  • @c004857
    @c0048573 жыл бұрын

    Rest in paradise beautiful lady.

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