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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Rest In Peace, sweet lady. 🤍
Rest In EVERLASTING Peace, a VERY talented, beautiful, kind woman, mother, wife and actress
Does anyone else rewatch these because you’ve seen them all and you are desperate for more?
@uhmno7944
4 жыл бұрын
peesha I rewatch the Wicked people knowing I’m probably not gonna be Elphie but I wanna be NessaRose
So glad this was captured forever, RIP Rebecca!
RIP Rebecca Marian Maria Christine Nellie (1961-2020) 💔
@patbulfin5459
3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Magnolia and Mrs. Banks.
Bless her heart and soul. May she rest in peace. 2020 comes at such a cost.
RIP Rebecca. First thing I thought of when I heard the news was this video. What a voice!
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
11 ай бұрын
me too!
Rest In Peace. A beautiful voice; a gift she shared with us.
Rest in Peace, to a Bright Star
She was so great in Music Man. I saw her with both Craig Bierko and Eric McCormack. She was amazing.
RIP such a talent. She will be missed
Omg, so full of life, talent and beauty. I still can't believe she's gone!
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!
Rest In Peace, Angel
RIP Rebecca. So beautiful in so many ways.
Just wanted to hear her voice today. Thank you for preserving her stories forever. And she mentions Jay Binder who also passed. RIP both❤️
She has the purest and most beautiful voice ever. What a wonderful artist and person. R.I.P.
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!!
Rebecca Luker, RIP
CHILLS at her My White Knight, Rebecca Luker is simply marvelous :)
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.
Rest In Peace beautiful x
Woww great voice, RIP
Broadway people are special people and Rebecca Luker was one them. She will always be remembered
Haha! Saw her tell this story in Sierra Boggess' "Daae Days." :D
@lighthouse-lh3ci
8 жыл бұрын
To clarify, the All I Ask of You story
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
RIP ❤️
Such an amazing and beautiful voice. So terribly sad and unfair. I hope that she is in a joyful place.
Just recently found out. Rebecca, thank you for sharing your gift and talent. Our Angel of Music 🙏🏻🌹
RIP sweet angel.
beautiful tone and performer.
RIP Rebecca Luker ❤️❤️❤️
Rip Marveleus Rebecca here in a marveleus interview .
R.I.P. Rebecca Luker. What a loss! :o(
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.
What a beautiful voice!!!
Love that Pippin reference there
Love her voice, Rebecca Luker is a total class act.
@makeittrue
6 жыл бұрын
Totally agree! :)
Rest In Peace! I’m so sad 😭
Rest in peace❤️ angel!
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.
I simply cannot believe she is gone..Thank god for videos and recordings
Rest In Peace ❤❤
such an amazing talent and a lovely woman!
Heartbroken 😪
rest in peace angel❤️
She is amazing!
Beautiful and talented lady. R.I.P. Rebecca.
Beautiful voice !! Sooo nice.
Miss her!
She is still my favorite "Christine" in "Phantom!"
Holy shit balls. Talk about voice control. Amazing!
Rest In Peace sweet Rebecca 💛
Brava!!!
Rest in everlasting peace, diva.
RIP. May God receive you in the arms of his everlasting peace.
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.
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!!
rip Rebecca Luker
I just died, yes!!!
Rebecca , she is wonderful , I love her !!
Love her.
Oml love the Pippin reference 😂😂😂
Was that last note Really That long or Did Seth make her hold it!?. Stunning voice, Stunning breath control!.
❤️❤️
RIP Rebecca Luker
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
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.
God, I miss Rebecca....
Leading Player!!
I think I met her at the late Soprano, Chloe Owens studio in NYC
Rip
Rest in peace dear Rebecca.
Thank you and goodbye Rebecca ❤
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
6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! More Soprano and Baritone roles, Broadway!
I hope you're recording and video taping the show with Howard McGillan.
Where were these for the longest time?!
Oh god, I didn’t know she passed last year; how horrible. I just remember her from Sierra’s Daae Days.
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?
On Seth's website!
R.I.P Rebecca 😭💔
Hahaha that's all I ask of ME!
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
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!
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
What's the difference between understudy and alternate? ~:~
@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
6 жыл бұрын
David Fathom what's matinee
@Magnitude7
6 жыл бұрын
Tâm Lê A day show as opposed to a night show.
Leading player??? Plays Magic to do 😂
Her voice reminds me of Barbara cook
I’d have loved to see her without raoul! Omg that must’ve been hilarious!
Rest In Peace, strong lady 🤍
Rest in paradise beautiful lady.