EARL CARPENTER
Earl Carpenter has played principal and title roles in the West End in The Phantom of the Opera and Darryl van Horne in The Witches of Eastwick. He was Joe Gillis in the UK tour of Sunset Boulevard: Count Danilo in The Merry Widow: Archibald Craven in the Scottish Première of The Secret Garden and played the Beast and Gaston in the original production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and UK tour.
He first appeared in Les Misérables in 1996 playing Courfeyrac at the Palace Theatre and at Euro ’96 Finale; Hylands Park and Windsor Castle. He co-produced five concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and played Inspector Javert at the Queens Theatre, reprising the role in the 25th anniversary touring production. He was in Cameron Mackintosh’s 25th Anniversary Production playing the Bishop of Digne at the O2 Arena last October.
He is Creative Director for Ginger Boy Productions and Conceptual Founder of the online media Reelkandi.tv
He is one of the Three Phantoms (with John Owen-Jones and Matthew Camelle) who are currently presenting a number of special concerts featuring hits from shows they have starred in including Sunset Boulevard, Beauty and the Beast, Martin Guerre, Showboat, Guys & Dolls, Les Miserables and Aspects of Love and The Phantom of the Opera up until next February.
Carpenter has recently played Inspector Khashoggi in the tour of Queen's We Will Rock You which he returned to after taking a break to appear in an international tour of Bill Kenwright’s production of Evita playing Peron.
He has been playing the Phantom at Her Majesty’s Theatre and is due to join the new tour of The Phantom of Opera playing the lead role from 1st October 2012 to 16th February 2013.
Before that he returns to the Queen's Theatre in London's West End to reprise his role as Inspector Javert in Les Miserables from 8th-19th May covering for Hadley Fraser while he is filming the LesMis movie.
