The album features Crawford singing show tunes from various musical theatre and films, and was recorded and released during his successful time playing the award-winning[2]title role in the musical The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End.[1]
In a review for AllMusic, Steven McDonald opined that the combination of Crawford, the London Symphony Orchestra, and "some of the best songs ever written for stage and screen" would be expected "to produce a driving, dynamic album", but instead he described it as "wimpy and weak", and "prone to sub-Anthony Newley moments.[3]
^Songs from the Stage and Screen (liner notes). Michael Crawford. Telstar. 1987.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)