How did you come to be Peter Karries offical web mistress?
I was running his fan club at the time. When I first started seeing Phantom regularly, he was playing the role in London, and we heard someone was starting a fan club for him, only it never happened because they had family stuff going on. In Canada I suggested he ask Dot to take it over; I was doing the Phantom fan club and didn’t really want to be running another one. She did a few issues of a newsletter, but she had a lot of personal stuff going on too and said she couldn’t keep doing it. So he asked me if I would take it over. I ran it for a couple of years, when he was doing a lot of concerts here, and Les Mis. Then when he was back in Canada, Lynne and John started a Canadian branch, because it was expensive to change over checks and then send most of the newsletters back over to Canada. So basically I talked to him about starting a website when I was doing the fan club. I believe the only other musicals actor with an official web site at the time was Betty Buckley. Websites were