Davis Gaines

DAVIS GAINES performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera more than 2,000 times, during his run on Broadway, in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Other Broadway and national tour credits include Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind, Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, Camelot with Richard Burton and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Alexis Smith. Off-Broadway appearances include Des McAnuff’s The Death of Von Richthofen as Witnessed From Earth, the Maury Yeston/Larry Gelbart musical One Two Three Four Five, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, She Loves Me and Forbidden Broadway. Film work includes a featured role in Warlock: The Armageddon and television credits include Charmed,Chicago Hope, Veronica’s Closet, Bodies of Evidence and Murder, She Wrote. He appeared in three PBS Great Performances broadcasts (the Emmy award-winning Sweeney Todd with the San Francisco Symphony, Broadway Originals with the Boston Pops and Jerry Herman’s Broadway at the Bowl), as well as the televised specials of the 1994 Kennedy Center Honors and the opening ceremony of the 1998 Goodwill Games. Additionally, Davis has sung for five U.S. Presidents and with virtually every major symphony orchestra in North America. His voice can be heard over 30 cast recordings and compilation albums, as well as two solo compact discs, Against the Tide and All My Tomorrows: Songs of Sammy Cahn. Most recently, he has been touring the country with Dorothy Hamill in “Broadway on Ice” and is a frequent singer of our National Anthem for the Los Angeles Kings and Lakers. For more information, please visit www.davisgaines.com.