Top 5 Best & Worst Christines!

Hi, since I found out about Sierra Boggess joining the Les Mis London cast (which I'm so excited about!!) I'm revealing my top 5 best & worst Christines in Phantom (which I'm a hardcore fan of!)
Top 5 Best Christines

1) Las Vegas Christine, 25th Anniversary Christine & original Love Never Dies Christine Sierra Boggess. She just blows me away & fits the whole package for the character:a beautiful voice which comes with a pretty face & has amazing acting skills. I just thought she was perfect at the concert at the Royal Albert Hall which I went to & she was definietly a highlight for me, especially her phenomenal redition of Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again which left me in tears, & I can't wait to see her in Les Mis as Fantine & I really, really, REALLY want to meet her!!!  I also got an autograph from her when she was in LND which I mailed & she gave me not just the picture, but 2 other signed photos which just shows how kind she is to her fans. I'll be showing all the autographs I've collected in my gallery page which will be coming very soon.

2) Phantom veteran & current Glinda in Wicked in London, Gina Beck. She just has a beautiful voice with an amazing quality to it & she just brings so much emotion into the character which I haven't seen in any other actresses who have played her. Also, I must say, she's one of the most prettiest Christines I've seen in comparison to some others (i.e. Ana Marina).

3) Current Christine in the UK Tour & Cosette in Les Mis, Katie Hall. I just think she has a sweetness which is  required for the role of a young singer like Christine, being only 17 when she got the part when she was an alternate in London previously. It's just shown how much she's matured to make Christine a beautiful strong woman, just like her through playing her. I also think her voice for some bizarre reason, has an angel-like quality within it, which makes Christine sound youthful, innocent & sweet, especially during Angel of Music & Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again.

4) Current Christine & Portuguese actress Sofia Escobar. Her voice is a pretty one, with her Portuguese accent sort of enhancing Christine & showing she's foreign (despite the fact she's supposed to be Swedish, not Portuguese) Vocally, she is definately a better Christine than some others & her pretty looks also show her sweetness within her character.

5)Original London alternate Christine & original Ellen in Miss Saigon, Claire Moore. Her voice had a beautifully angel-like quality which made her be worth so much more than an alternate & unlike the original principal, Sarah Brightman, she could actually sing & her acting was so amazing & personally, I think the casting should have been the other way around, since she was actually a classically trained singer & bless her when she had to quickly fill in for Christine in the previews & wear Sarah Brightman's tiny costumes





Top 5 Worst Christines (with 1 being the person I least hate & 5 being who I most hate)

1) Christine in the 2004 film, Emmy Rossum. Her voice just doesn't suit the role (she's a mezzo-soprano & Christine's a soprano) & she doesn't have power in the voice that theatrical Christines have. With all due respect, she was only 16 which is why she's the Christine I least hate & her performance wasn't that bad in that I wanted to strangle myself while wacthing the her, it was just the style of the film & low quality singing which affected her in it.

2) Sandra Joseph, who played Christine for 10 years on Broadway & US tour. Her voice just wants me to hang myself & it doesn't suit Christine at all, in fact I think she sounded like a cat screeching when it got trapped in a cat door during the cadenza of  Think Of Me & her performance I watched on YouTube didn't do any justice with her singing & acting skills.

3) Christine alternate Marni Raab. She just rushes through the songs & therefore lacks emotion while she sings, it's almost as if she wanted to get the performance over & done with & she's not exactly the prettiest or most youthful Christine I've seen.

4) Australian Christine Ana Marina. To me, she's just awful because: she looks too old to be Christine, she's one of the shortest Christines I've ever seen (either that or the Phantoms in Australia are really tall!). Also, her voice just sounds way too shrilly & mature for an innocent & youthful role & to be honest, I don't like her portrayal at all.

5) Original London & Broadway Christine & 'opera' singer Sarah Brightman. I hate her for a number of reasons: she only got the part because she was married to the composer of the show Andrew Lloyd Webber, her portrayal was annoying & her voice wasn't operatic & sounded horrible & her stare just scared the hell out of me. To me, she's the antithesis of what Christine should be & she didn't have any power at all & her appearance at the 25th anniversary concert didn't benefit anything either, considering she was clearly lip-synching (trust me, I was there, with my seat close to the stage & she was not singing at all). Also, I couldn't believe she ended up playing Christine on Broadway, considering she wasn't even famous in America  also, randomly, her wig just looked like a horrible perm & the curls in the wig at the moment are much better than that rat/dog of a wig.