Off-Broadway’s immersive Phantom of the Opera experience Masquerade has unmasked new cast members joining the production, newly extended for a sixth time and now continuing through January 31, 2027, at 218 West 57th Street (formerly Lee’s Art Shop).
Joining the company in the role of the Phantom are Austin Colby (through July 23), Derrick Davis, and Nicholas Edwards, alongside Claire Leyden as Christine, Mark Banik as Firmin, and Gregory Lee Rodriguez as Raoul. Also joining the company are vacation covers Courtney Balan, Stephanie Jae Park, Tanner Quirk, and Stephanie Reuning-Scherer.
Modeled after the seminal immersive production Sleep No More, Masquerade seeks to plant audiences right into the plot of Gaston Leroux‘s The Phantom of the Opera—of course, within the lens of Lloyd Webber’s long-running 1986 West End-Broadway musical. Once you have entered the Opera House, you trace the steps of the infamous Opera Ghost, who has been terrorizing the theatre’s performers and management. As the story unfolds, you learn of the Opera Ghost’s mentorship over Christine Daae—a young soprano who has become the object of his obsession.
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The inventive new staging plays to six audience groups of about 60 people every evening, meaning the complete cast features more leads than the show did on Broadway. Sharing the role of the Phantom along with newcomers Colby, Davis, and Edwards are Quentin Earl Darrington, Hugh Panaro, Kyle Scatliffe, and Ryan Vona. Along with Leyden, the roster of Christines includes Haile Ferrier, Eryn LeCroy, Francesca Mehrotra, Riley Noland, and Kaley Ann Voorhees.
The current company also includes Alaska, Lee H. Alexander, Laura Lee Anderson, Milena Comeau, Matthew Curiano, Gabriella Enriquez, Nicole J. Ferguson, Nkrumah Gatling, Francisco Javier González, Maxfield Haynes, Bryan Hernandez-Luch, Satomi Hofmann, Dan Hoy, Kody Jauron, Tia Karaplis, Nathan Keen, Joseph Kerr, Michael Kuhn, Jacob Lacopo, Audrey Logan, Georgia Mendes, Sami Merdinian, Anna Monoxide, Betsy Morgan, Dario Natarelli, Charles Osborne, Liz Pearce, Chris Ryan, Paul Adam Schaefer, Cooper Stanton, Jeremy Stolle, Jack Sullivan, Olivia Tarchick, Sean Seamus Thompson, Andrew Wojtal, Nikita Yermak, and Kevin Zambrano.
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Tony winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, 1776) leads a creative team that includes Hunter Bird, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Kathy Fabian, James Fluhr, Jessie Flynn, Nicola Formichetti, Skylar Fox, Kate Lumpkin, J. J. Janas, Brett Jarvis, Marc Kimelman, Lee McCutcheon, Scott Pask, Emilio Sosa, Gypsy Snider, Ben Stanton, and William Waldrop.
Attendees of the production are given instructions from “their host,” which includes a dress code advising patrons dress “extravagantly” in black, white, or silver and to wear a masquerade mask (if you do not have one, one will be provided) and to avoid wearing high heels to facilitate safe walking in the building’s recreation of the Paris catacombs. The venue is described as fully ADA accessible, and guests with specific accessibility needs are encouraged to email [email protected].
The production team for the revival comprises Rosario Arcuri, Stephen Arnold, Sarah Battaglia, Sean Beach, Evan Bernardin, Will Blumberg, Antoine Boissereau, Carolyn Boyd, Simon Brouke, Kelbi Carrig, Ruth Carsch, Kerry Concannon, Brittany Coyne, Hailey Delaney, Eric Dente, Eli Diker, Elizabeth Emanuel, Randall Etheredge, Stephanie Leah Evans, Shoshana Fisher, Dawn-Elin Fraser, Megan Frazier, Misha Fristensky, Christina Grant, Chris Habana, Simon Hammerstein, Billie Harmon, Cesar Hawas, Isaac Hayward, Morgan Holbrook, Amelie Julicher, Andrew Katz, Viktoria-Isabella King, Jeffery Kurtz, McBee, Fiona McDougal, Brian Messina, Vittoria Orlando, Amanda Perry, Dotty Peterson, Cinder Petrichor, Diana Rebholz, Alicia Rodis, Sadie Schlesinger, Jake Scudder, Max Seelig, Giza Selimi, Ashley Setzler, James Sherwood, David Shocket, Naomi Symeou, Nakkia Smalls, Monet Thibou, Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, Madilyn Tramonte, Benjamin Weigel, Kat West, Nzinga Williams, Chelsea Wilson, David Andrew Wilson, Mike Wojchik, Alex Wolfe, Asher Young, and Alec Zbornak.
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