Some music snobs would take issue with that, but that’s why we’re not on the same wavelength,” Stanley said. He’s much closer to, I believe, Puccini and Verdi. “Andrew Lloyd Webber is actually more than rock. But Stanley puts Phantom of the Opera‘s Lloyd Webber above them all. “I grew up with a greater appreciation of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim,” Stanley said. He has a vast musical appreciation, and Phantom of the Opera falls under the umbrella. RELATED: Paul Stanley Had 1 Hit Song Without Kiss and It’s About Cher’s Sister Stanley loves musical theater almost as much as he loves rockīesides recognizing his connection to the Phantom, Stanley just enjoys the musical for what it is. Surgeons were also able to make Stanley an artificial ear from the cartilage in his rib cage. “Growing my hair was the start of covering it up.”Īs an adult, Stanley got hearing aids implanted. “I was an angry, dysfunctional kid with a real image problem and a hearing problem that put me under constant scrutiny,” Stanley explained. Stanley was born with Level 3 Microtia, a congenital deformity that left him deaf in one ear, “making it hard for him to communicate or do well in school.” Only I wasn’t living in a dungeon under an opera house,” Stanley said. Well, that pretty much summed up my life, you know. “Here’s somebody who has a disfigurement that they’re covering and they’re trying to reach out to a woman and, as much as they want to do it, they don’t know how. But Stanley had covered himself up like the Phantom years before he entered Kiss. He swapped out his Starchild persona for another masked character from May until August and then from September to October. In 1999, Stanely joined the cast as the Phantom in a Toronto production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Stanley has opened up about his connection to Phantom of the Opera.
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Yet, more than 10 years later, Stanley’s agent called him asking if he’d consider auditioning for the part of the Phantom himself. I was a fat little kid who couldn’t play an instrument but I looked at them and said, ‘I can do that.'” He had no background in musical theater to actually star in Phantom of the Opera, just like he had no experience performing an instrument in front of a live audience when he was young, after watching The Beatles. “And it was the same thing I did when I saw the Beatles. “I had this momentary revelation, an epiphany where I went, ‘Wow, I can do that,'” Stanley said.
Watching it for the first time made him have similar thoughts to when he first saw The Beatles perform. On his website, Stanley explained that after seeing the London company perform Phantom of the Opera in 1988, it changed his life.
Paul Stanley | Adrián Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images Watching ‘Phantom of the Opera’ for the first time was like watching The Beatles
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