We have denied your goodness in each other, We confess that we have sinned against you, Seek the One who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth: The Lord is his name. Norm Lewis played the first Black Phantom on Broadway in 2014. Louis, as composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and producer Cameron Mackintosh sought to diversify their casts as part of the theater industry’s reckoning with Black Lives Matter. The production in London’s West End also has a Black Christine, Lucy St.
For the first time in its 33-year history on Broadway, “Phantom of the Opera” has a Black leading lady: she is Emilie Kouatchou, a soprano from suburban Chicago, now playing Christine to Ben Crawford’s Phantom.
