The story is based on a horror novel by Gaston Leroux, which has been adapted into numerous films. By April 2019, the Phantom of the Opera has been staged over 13,000 times.Īs of March 12, 2020, the show suspended its production due to the pandemic and will be postponed until September 2020 at its earliest.
The production continued throughout the years, where it became the first Broadway musical ever to surpass 10,000 performances in February 2012. In Broadway, Phantom opened in January 1988 at the Majestic Theatre in Manhattan. In June 2020, it was announced that the musical is permanently shut down, but the producers are determined to bring it back to London in the future.
The production was forced to go on a hiatus since March 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During its 30th anniversary in October 2016, the original cast appeared during the curtain call. In 2011, its 25th anniversary held in London was screened live in cinemas around the world. John Savident as Monsieur Richard Firmin.Michael Crawford as The Phantom of the Opera.Phantom of the Opera previewed at Her Majesty’s Theater in London’s West End on September 27, 1986, and officially opened by October 9. With a total Broadway gross of more than $1 billion and total worldwide gross receipts of over $6 billion, Phantom was the most financially successful theater event until The Lion King surpassed it in 2014. The Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway in 1986, and celebrated its 10,000th performance in 2012 – the first production to ever do so. It’s the third longest-running West End show overall, after The Mousetrap.īased on the 1910 novel of the same title by Gaston Leroux, this musical tells the story of a beautiful soprano who becomes obsessed with a disfigured musical genius who lives in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opera House. With music and book by Andrew Lloyd Webber, direction from Harold Prince, and gorgeous costume and production designs from Maria Björnson, the Phantom of the Opera became one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals.
The Phantom of the Opera is a New York City landmark, but it first premiered at Her Majesty’s Theater in London.
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