I am in New York currently and I went to see phantom to see if the new phantom was any good.It sucked terribly, there was no energy, the show dragged, Christine and Raoul were the two good parts about it. The Phantom did a terrible job in his part (not an understudy), no energy, boring, no charisma, and vocally underwhelming. It was bad enough to the point I feel like the show should just be retired and left to rest for a good ten years or more before reviving it.