The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: Byron Nease, Broadway star with 1,700 performances in Phantom of the Opera, has written a revealing memoir in BEHIND THE MASK...No More

Nease began on Broadway with Angela Lansbury in MAME, but long before he donned the mask to play the Phantom, he learned to show the world one face while concealing another. Byron suffered enormous physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother when he was a young boy. A musical theater star is expected to bare his soul on stage, but keep his private life cloaked, and he learned this lesson while still a small boy.