OK BUT CAN WE PLEASE THANK COLM FOR INSPIRING RAMIN TO BECOME AN ACTOR

0:00 Michael Crawford (King!) 0:32 Gary Mauer 1:07 John Owen Jones 1:38 Peter Karrie 2:09 Earl Carpenter 2:39 Ramin Karimloo 3:12 Hugh Panaro 3:44 John Cudia 4:14 Colm Wilkinson 4:48 David Shannon 5:21 Howard McGillin

This might sound weird, but Gary Mauer's voice is so unbelievably amazing that you can almost taste it. It's like honey is running through your ears and on your tongue.

This is making me cry. Phantom ending its broadway run is the saddest thing ever.

I like many of them. But there's a special place in my heart for Crawford since he's the original, and he began the legacy.

The little lift at the end of "Music" by Mauer and Panaro are so very touching ❤

Ramin Karmiloo and Michael Crawford are my main two!!!! :D

It seems like a lot of them don't understand what "the music of the night" means to the phantom and by extension, them. He has spent years of his life not only crafting Christine's voice but crafting his music to fit her voice. Christine is then an irreplaceable tool for how he expresses the only beauty and the only live he feels he has ever known. And she throws it away by choosing Raoul. All this work, all his love, and all of the beauty he can contribute is rejected. Why? Because of something he cannot contol; his face (at least in his mind) When he sings this part it should be broken and desperate or at least in that vein. These phantoms, however are trying to be the flashiest, most dramatic performer. :/ I stand by Ramin as phantom. He is a self taught, emotional singer. In the 25th, his voice broke all over the place, he whispered, he nearly boke into tears but all of that helped his performance. I'm sorry for the long block of text lol.

My first time hearing Gary Mauer, he's amazing 😍

shout out to Gary Mauer for slaying this whole compilation like DAMN

Top Ten Phantoms 10. Gerald butler (out of respect he was the movie and my first phantom) 9. Pual stanley (star child from kiss) 8.Steve barton (first person to play roul) 7. colm wilkison (first person to be the phantom unoffically) 6.robert guillaume (the replacement of michael crawford,the oldest person to play the role at 62 and the only african american to play the role) 5.hugh panaro ( his phantom is based of the book and other novels making his phantom the closest to the real phantom ) 4.john owens jones(longest running phantom) 3.ramin karimloo(phantom of the 25th anniversary and phantom in the sequel love neve dies) 2.peter joback( one of the highest singing voice of all the phantoms but this makes his voice extremly eerie at times also one of the 25th annivesary phantoms) 1.michael crawford(the first person to play the role his voice was very much what one would imagine his voice at times was eerie and at others very enchanting,played along side sarah brightman the wife of andrew lyod webber at the time,aswell as steve barton who went on to become the phantom,he had huge influence in many of the lyrics of the songs,phantoms ramin karimloo,john owens jones,and peter joback bowed down.)

Michael Crawford IS the Phantom of the Opera. Ramin and JOJ are also very good, but no one will ever beat the original.

All of them are great singers, but some don't convey the right emotions. There should be a mix of anger, sadness, rejection, and pain. If you found out that the person you had loved for a long time and poured all of your life's passion into ran off with someone else, you wouldn't exactly be singing a pop ballad.

Gary Mauer and Ramin Karimloo are my favorite phantoms

Maestro Crawford 🖤, he put so much emotions, you can feel his pain yet his voice still remains both ghastly and angelic at the same time.

I grew up listening to Michael Crawford and he will always be my favorite.

Gary Mauer, wow, was not expecting that. Beautiful, beautiful, nearly made me cry just in those few lines. Michael, Peter Karrie, and Hugh were all magnificent. Hugh was my favorite, but boy the other three are absolutely phenomenal as well. I've gone and made myself sad now.

I love how Colm Wilkinson's voice cracks a little when he says "now", like it's really hitting him that Christine is leaving him

Ramin Karimloo is my favourite, so much passion and emotion is put into it...

RAMIN!! 10/10 omg so sad

I literally cried after hearing Ramin and Colm's version. And I didn't even realize I was listening to Colm. Their voice showed the brokenness of the Phantom

10/10 michle Crawford and 10/10 ramin

They were all amazing. But Ramin Karimloo's voice is just outstanding. My favorite

I'm out of breath just listening to this

Michael Crawford and Ramin!!!♥♥♥

Michael Crawford and Ramin Karimloo definitely express the most power (or effect? not really the word im looking for exactly) so far. It's incredible

JOJ is underatted

Am I the only one who has been in tears throughout the entire video? No matter the Phantom, this last line always gets me.

You gotta hand it to Gary Mauer though...that technique was incredible

MICHAEL'S VOICE EXUDE THE MOST POIGNANCY OF THE PHANTOM'S PLIGHT

2:40....and there he is! My angel of music! Sing to me, Ramin!

I love how everyone's writing their favorite Phantom's surnames mostly expect for Ramin's. I find it rather funny. I have to say that my favorite is Ramin - althought he brought this line in the 25th anniversary so much more better and with raw emotion that always brings me to tears.

Micheal, Ramin, JOJ, and Hugh are my favorites. Micheals voice in particular just shatters my heart into a thousand pieces, something about it just works.

When Ramin Karimloo and Colm Wikinson sing this my heart literally stops

Gary Mauer, John Owen Jones, Ramin Karimloo and Hugh Panaro are my favourites............after Michael Crawford :)

Michael Crawford will always be my angel of music

I agree with you wholeheartedly that MC is THE Phantom. I like your description of his voice as "sweet, scary & seductive" which I find erotic.It's not too powerful & overbearing as other Phantom performers. And you're right that it is the whole package, not just the singing.Which is why MC became so popluar with the ladies after Phantom, performing shows, creating romantic song CD's & duets with Barbra Streisand (remember him as Cornelius in Hello Dolly?).MC will always be my phavorite phantom!

john owen-jones is my fave but almost all of them are really really really good

Howard McGillan was my first Phantom! He will always have a special place in my heart!

Gary Mauer’s vocals were the only in the entire list that truly sang words of mourning for how much regret he has for losing his Christine. As much as I love John Owen Jones and Ramin Karimloo, I think Gary Mauer’s clip in this video was perfection. His voice cracks perfectly and he sounds like he’s in the process of crying out his words.

Michael Crawford is probably the best, but I see no love for Colm. I honestly love the way he says stuff. Perfectly pronounced, which means he's overcome the makeup that almost conquered Michael's performance.

Michael Crawford

GARY AND RAMIN! joj and micheal were also really good!

It will never be over, the music of the nigh!!!

In this particular line, Gary Mauer I thought was the best!

All of them are amazing in their own ways. I've only seen Ramin in the 25th Anniversary since it's on Netflix, but every actor plays the part differently and that's perfectly fine. :3

Michael Crawford's voice always lifts my heart. He will always be the Phantom.

Every time I hear Ramin sing this I cry. The feels he gives from this song though.

I like Ramin's voice!! Such elegance and perfection. I love his voice the best, but all were amazing as well.

Gary Maur takes the win on this one. Michael is the reigning king of it all, but Gary...he's something else. The unsung hero who provided one if the most compelling performances ever. To make it even better, his Christine was his wife and their closing performance was heartbreaking.

Crawford, Mauer. I like Mauer's holding of the note at the end.. it works well IMHO And strangely, Colm's falls down the list for me, though as Jean Valjean...whoohoo he's de man

While all of these guys are incredible the true genius here is ALW for giving us such an incredible sequence!

Can't wait til the day Ben finally plays phantom!! He so deserves a shot he'd be fantastic at this

I just love all of these. I Love how much emotion is in 10+ bars of music. My all time Lloyd-Webber show.

Ramin Karimloo , Hugh Panaro

Love these comparison videos! My personal favorites are Crawford and JOJ!

Thanks for making this video. This is actually my favorite part of Phantom. This is such a powerful line and makes me cry everytime.

Michael Crawford and Hugh Panaro sound pretty similar.... I don't know if it's just me....

I fall in line with the widest accepted! Michael C (My God, that man's voice!), JOJ and Ramin K. I feel like they're good at portraying their respectively aged Phantom's...if that makes sense...

Thank you for posting this! I'm always surprised at the diversity of voices - some comfortable (Crawford, JOJ, Panaro - except for one note which sounded distinctly off, Karimloo), some very strained (Carpenter, McGillis, Karrie, even it seems, the indestructible Colm Wilkinson). At the end of the day, it's a matter of personal taste whom you think is best. I continue to favour Michael Crawford, not just because he was the first one I ever heard, but also for the incredible pain in his voice. He is, in that respect as well as in tone, the closest anyone gets to the Phantom of the original novel, who is most definitely a tenor. The trend in London at least has been to cast baritones, including Ramin K, and I think it's not a great idea, because the difference in range between Phantom and Raoul gets lost if you do, and because it's painful on the ear to hear them struggle with "let the music start to soar" and other Music of the Night vocal heights.

I saw this on broadway shortly after my brain surgery. It was the best experience I've ever had.

THEY'RE ALL FANTASTIC.

I have such a thing for Michael Crawford 😋 always have, always will... So, of course he's my favorite.. Close second between John and Ramin, but all are amazing!

Earl Carpenter & Ramin Karimloo are my favourites, they are ALOT better live too. I also really like David Shannon, JOJ, Gary Mauer, John Cudia & Hugh Panaro. Tbh I like almost all of them..

John Owen-Jones and Ramin Karimloo!

These people are all SO GOOD!! But my favorite is Michael Crawford!! 😊

It will be over in February (at least on Broadway)

Ramin. Some of the others either too high of a voice to portray "The Phantom" or too low and too much vibrato. Ramin's is perfected and matches the phantom title and is one of the best.

1.- Michael Crawford. I'm not a fan of soft voices, but his voice is amazing and he'll always be my favorite Phantom. 2.- JOJ, Hugh, Ramin and Colm.

Michael is my #1! The only one, imo, who even comes close to the same intensity is Ramin, and perhaps JOJ! But ultimately, it IS Michael! 😍💘💘💋💋💋

Gary, JOJ, and Ramin are my favorites.

Karrie did the one thing that ALW despises. He toyed with the original melody of the song. Did anyone else catch that?

michael crawerd is the best of them all

I’m so glad I found this 😂 it’s honestly my favorite musical part of the whole thing it’s such a stunning moment.

I think they are all talented in their own right and are better singers than any of us could ever hope to be. That being said, My favorite is definitely Ramin, then probably Colm and Hugh. I also really liked Anthony Warlow, but he isn't on here.

Michael Crawford will always, always be my favorite. Very close behind is Hugh Panaro, followed by Ramin Karimloo.

John Owen Jones best captured the emotion, I think.

Michael Crawford IS THE PHANTOM ...

Hmm....all so good. Michael Crawford is my true Angel of Music (I'm seriously in love with his voice) and is my absolute favorite Phantom, John-Owen Jones is awesome, Earl Carpenter is one of my favorites, Ramin Karimloo is also a favorite, no one beats Colm Wilkinson's expression.....all so good....

1. Ramin Karimloo 2. M.C. 3. Gary Mauer Unpopular opinion but it’s mine

Some great voices here ,but my favourite will always be Crawford with that special something in his voice and his emotional approach!

Michael crawford was the best phantom ebd of discussion

4 of the 11 phantoms that I have seen are in this group are Gary, Peter, Colm and Howard; all putting their on own stamp on this coveted role!

Crawford has an amazing tune and natural voice. The unique.

There is only one Phantom, his name is MICHAEL CRAWFORD!!

They are all spectacular in their own rights. Michael Crawford was the first and will always be the best and I think all the Phantoms since have lived up to the original. I have been very fortunate to see a recent production of Phantom here in New Zealand and I would add Chris Crowe to this list of very talented men. Well done to them all.

Mmm I love Ramin's beat then "niiiiight"

oh, i miss scott davies.....he is my favorite. great voice and performans and the graceful handmotions i´ve ever seen

In the time it took Ramin to sing this line, I could find an orphaned girl, sing to her from the shadows, trick her into believing that I am the Angel of Music and teach how how to sing - and I'd probably take fewer breaths.

Best Phantom is Michael Crawford. Although all of them were absolutely amazing!! I still have yet to see my first Phantom in 6th months! Chris Mann is going to be playing him and I heard he is ridiculously amazing so I can't wait!!! :D (and that lady you here crying during Hugh=Me)

My favorites: Gary Mauer, John Owen-Jones, Earl Carpenter, Ramin Karimloo, Hugh Panaro, John Cudia, and David Shannon.

Hugh Panaro will always be my favorite.

John Cudia in this, for me was the best! You can tell he has so much range in his voice, singing comes so easily and powerfully by the sound of it!

For me, it's a tie between JOJ, Ramin, and John Cudia. I actually got to see John Cudia in NYC back in 2010 and there were times he had me literally shaking! Though I must say watching the London 25th anniversary with Ramin has a similar effect. ;)

i wish there was some of the non English versions of the phantom in this but its still really good

Cold Wilkinson gives off a strong Tom Jones vibe

I loved ALL OF THEM! Their voices are amazing! And the best part is they all get that they need to know despair to have hope. That is the secret to the beautifully tragic ending.

My favorites: Michael Crawford, JOJ, Ramin Karimloo, Hugh Panaro, David Shannon, Gary Mauer, and Colm Wilkinson

No one can do this like Crawford, however this isnt even his best interpretation. Check out some of the live ones when he was playing him in LA in 1990, those are AMAZING

Michael Crawford's phantom voice sounds pretty eerie, almost ghostly.