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"Considerable vocal skills are necessary to wring every note and emotion from Webber's score and the lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe...Tim Martin Gleason who plays The Phantom...(is) definitely up to that task. Gleason does a heart-tugging rendition of "The Music of the Night" and pairs nicely with Moldovan on "Point of No Return"."- Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Tim Martin Gleason, who had a record-setting tenure as Raoul, has smoothly transitioned in this national tour to the role of the Phantom. As a good Phantom should be, he is grotesque and cruel but pitiable. From the moment we first hear his booming voice, which reverberated throughout the Benedum, to the moment he disappears, he is simultaneously repulsive and alluring."- Kaitlynn Riely, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"This Phantom (Tim Martin Gleason) is more romantic with Christine (Trista Moldovan) and much more macho with the managers of the theater. For once, the phantom is not a villain, but a mentally unstable lover. The cast,from the leading roles to the ensemble players, doesn't have one weak link. Gleason and Moldovan are instant audience favorites, both with stunning voices. Gleason makes his love for Christine palpable. He seems to reach out into the audience to explain his for of the beautiful singer."- David Ritchey, Talking Broadway (Cleveland)
"As the tortured Phantom, Tim Martin Gleason (a longtime former performer of rival suitor Raoul) brings both menace and sadness to the character. His singing voice...cuts a crisp path through the vast Allen Theatre.
"- Brian Patrick Thornton, Spangle Magazine (Cleveland)
"Tim Martin Gleason is mesmerizing as the Phantom. His expressive voice, physical grace and sensuous hands nicely convey his desire for Christine as well as his deep-rooted emotional torment. He brings a commanding presence and weighty pathos to the role."- Bob Ableman, The News-Herald (Cleveland)
"The touring company of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," anchored by the sexy smoulder between the Phantom (Tim Martin Gleason) and his ingenue Christine (Trista Moldovan), doesn't feel the least bit tired. Gleason and Moldovan...heighten Christine's sexual awakening and the Phantom's twisted lust. Gleason also makes us mourn the Phantom's lost humanity. Gleason and Moldovan are particularly effective in the two songs that form the musical's backbone, "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of the Night."
"- Julie Washington, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"While on the cast album and in other productions Christine is the standout, in this production it is Gleason, who performs in a tux with black coattails and a white masks that covers half of his face. While other characters are sometimes difficult to understand, his annunciation is perfect and his singing voice is outstanding. He moves like a dancer displaying his love for Christine, and he is a charming suitor who tugs at the heartstrings. But when she snatches the mask off him, he instantaneously metamorphosis into a creature that resembles Dracula."- Susan Asher, Asher PR (Atlanta)
"My greatest compliment of the evening has to go to the Phantom (Tim Martin Gleason). It is really very easy to overact this part, making the Phantom into an uber-villain. Mr. Gleason, however, portrayed the humanity and suffering of a person excluded from society because of a severe birth defect. The Phantom's pain was real. He had been ostracized from society and made to suffer rejection, humiliation, and loneliness because of something beyond his control. Combine the awareness of social stigma with high creativity and intelligence, and all of a sudden, his motives and behavior become more understandable. As a result of Mr. Gleason's portrayal of the Phantom's humanity, Christine's capitulation to his demands makes sense. Her character is a sweet girl, who - though naive - is basically a compassionate person. She could feel his pain. When the Phantom is portrayed as an uber-villain, that scene just doesn't make sense."- Aubrey, Polishing Dayton.com
"As the Phantom, Tim Gleason’s masked and unmasked man was equal parts anger and vulnerability, an effectively unstable combination that made him dangerous while also providing an opportunity for the leading lady and audience to care about him. That’s crucial."- Terry Morris, Dayton Daily News
"The production at the Wharton has a freshness and vitality that, together with the legendary stage pyrotechnics, presses all the pleasure buttons. Not least is Tim Martin Gleason's splendidly lithe but also vulnerable phantom. Gleason's powerful voice blends pathos with an almost ferocious desire."- Terry Pow, Jackson Citizen Patriot (East Lansing)
"Tim Martin Gleason (in the title role), Trista Moldovan as Christine, and Sean MacLaughlin as Raoul, give vibrant voice to the score. Gleason in particular demonstrates crystal-clear enunciation that allows him to give his lyrics an extra punch of drama that has eluded many other Phantoms over the years. "- James Sanford, City Pulse (East Lansing)
"Almost upstaging the great Michael Crawford as The Phantom of the Opera is a tall order, and Tim Martin Gleason comes as close as any of the six performers I've seen and heard in the difficult role.......Gleason is believeably intense as the flamboyant, troubled but genius Phantom with his velvety-smooth tenor voice and larger-than-life body language. Simply put: Gleason is brilliant as the dark Phantom"- Shari Stern, White Rock Lake Weekly (Dallas)
"Tim Martin Gleason plays the Phantom with strength and tenderness"- Charles Shubow , BroadwayWorld.com (Baltimore)
"Gleason was genuinely creeptastic as the Phantom..(His) voice, in particular, has amazing range and tone. "- Anna Ditkoff, Baltimore City Paper
"Tim Martin Gleason is a most sympathetic Phantom...Gleason's Phantom boasts, above all, exceptional vocal skills; his singing, especially when slipping effortlessly into a well-centered falsetto, is invariably affecting."- Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
"Tim Martin Gleason as the Phantom shows enormous vocal range and power."- Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin360.com
"Tim Martin Gleason brings us a Phantom to remember, a bold, taunting phantom, whose frightening antics can fill the auditorium with gasps, but as he sings his sad soliloquies, tears can be found in the eyes of even the most stone hearted of theater goers. He is able to project his raw emotion, even through the bloody, mangled face he wears for the last act of the play."- Ryan E. Johnson, The Examiner (Austin)
"Tim Martin Gleason takes on the role of the leading man, flawlessly portraying the Phantom with the passion of 10 men. His voice carries every note to perfection and his passion somehow manages to romance the audience into love with this murderous phantom."- Lori Lee, North Texas Daily (Dallas)
"Tim Martin Gleason makes a magnificent, more-vulnerable-than-typical Phantom in this "pharewell" leg of the U.S. tour of Phantom of the Opera. Gleason, who starred as the handsome and decidedly un-Phantom-like Raoul in the show for three years, makes a winning transition to the dark side for this tour. I heard sobbing at the finale on opening night; his touching emotional fragility makes you truly root for the Phantom's redemption, despite his heinous deeds."- Joy Tipping, Dallas Morning News
"Tim Martin Gleason gives a chilling and beautiful performance as the lovestruck and extremely conflicted Phantom."- J. Damany Daniel, Pegasus News (Dallas/Forth Worth)
"As the Phantom, Tim Martin Gleason is suitably menacing in his twisted machinations. He has a fine singing voice."- Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel
"'Phantom of the Opera' excels in Broward production....playing the O.G. (Opera Ghost) with nary a whisper of kitsch or camp is Tim Martin Gleason, who previously played Raoul for 2,600 performances. What Gleason gets right is the rabid little ticks and twitches of an obsessed madman; genius turned sour in a dark, dank lair underneath the opera house."- Rod Stafford Hagwood, The Miami Herald (Fort Lauderdale)
"As the Phantom, leading man Tim Martin Gleason effectively portrays the multiple levels of a character wrought with confusion, self loathing, and troubled compassion. Gleason effortlessly achieves the soaring score’s multi-octave range with a tenor that reverberates loudly as easily as it soothes in its softer tones.
"- Michael Martin, Edge Miami (Fort Lauderdale)
"In donning the famous silver half-mask worn with distinction in the West End and on Broadway by Michael Crawford, Tim Martin Gleason knows that he has some sizable boots to fill, and fill them he does. Gleason brings his own brand of panache to the title role of the unhinged musical genius who terrorizes the Opéra Populaire; and his vibrant vocals, especially his solo of “The Music of the Night,” are simply haunting."- Robert W. McDowell, Classical Voice of North Carolina
"No matter if you enjoy opera or prefer another music genre, there is no denying the sheer magnificance of the soaring voices of Gleason and Moldovan. Both exemplify the idea that a voice is an instrument, and they play it with passion and precision. Neither ever wavered, instead singing clear, strong and with emotion."- Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, The Herald Sun (Durham)
"Tim Martin Gleason (the Raoul here in 2003) has the range and dynamic control for the Phantom's agonized yearning and bitter anger."- Roy C. Dicks, The News & Observer (Durham)
"The current tour...also is graced with an impressive Phantom in Tim Martin Gleason, whose voice ranges from velvety baritone bombast to delicate tenor filigrees...Even after all these years, Broadway's biggest hit continues to command the best talent."- Kerry Lengel, The Arizona Republic
"And in the hands of Tim Martin Gleason as The Phantom, a hint of danger is always lurking. Gleason, who holds the record for playing the other guy, Raoul, the most times (touring, Vegas and Broadway), is a strong lead. He's both sympathetic and scary."- Lynn Venhaus, News-Democrat (St. Louis)
"Gleason’s performance at the Opera House was brilliant. Bringing his character to life, he lead the audience through feelings of utter sympathy for the masked figure to scenes of shear horror, as his plight to win over the lovely Christine was simply not to be. His reign as the Phantom is sure to surpass his previously held tenure (as Raoul)."- Randy Falsetta, Splash Magazine (Detroit)
"a majestic Tim Martin Gleason.....is strong and somber, a ghost whose voice has a presence and stature that his corporeal form may lack (according to the story, anyway)."- Nicole Rupersburg, The Detroiter
"Tim Martin Gleason (is) an intense, multi-faceted Phantom, bringing a versatile, powerful, controlled voice to the role."- Elaine Scmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Gleason’s Phantom voice dominates with impressive range and color. He is expressive and his physical allure is palpable."- Paul Masterson, Third Coast Digest (Milwaukee)
"Gleason’s Phantom masters his showy solos with yearning high notes. He makes the monster commanding yet pitiable, tormented and tormenting."- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle
"Tim Martin Gleason’s Phantom is impetuous, rather than mysterious. Gleason plays him as a broken child whose unrequited love turns to cruel petulance, and this makes sense. The disfigured boy, abandoned by his mother and once exhibited as a freak, is still stunted and immature in adulthood, despite his wicked brilliance."- Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer
"But, judging by the thunderous ovation at the conclusion, the audience had a favorite: Tim Martin Gleason playing the Phantom himself. That is to say, his ovation was maybe a few decimals higher than the vociferously deafening response to the other cast members...and this was well-deserved. Gleason managed to bring an additional level of emotion to the role in both acting and vocal prowess."- Sarah Hall, Salisbury Post (Charlotte)
