Davis, one of the most well known of the Phantoms, performed the title role more than 2,000 times, for over five million people, during his run on Broadway, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he received the Bay Area Critics' Award for Best Actor. He also was one of a select few to play Raoul on Broadway before playing the Phantom. Subsequently, Davis was chosen by Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play the leading role in the world premiere of Whistle Down the Wind in Washington, D.C. Other Broadway and national tour credits Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, Camelot with Richard Burton and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Alexis Smith. He made his New York City Opera debut in The New Moon and appeared in New York in concert versions of Sitting Pretty, The Cat and the Fiddle, Pippin and the Encores production of The Boys From Syracuse. Davis appeared in Damn Yankees as Joe Hardy directed by the legendary George Abbott, in Arsenic and Old Lace as Mortimer Brewster opposite Kate Reid, in The Rink with Lainie Kazan and in Two Into One with Tony Randall. He played the sailor, Anthony Hope, in the 20th anniversary concert productions of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in Los Angeles, London, NewYork, San Francisco and at Ravinia Festival. www.davisgaines.com