![]() ![]() After winning four Olivier Awards including Best New Musical there, the show transferred to Broadway in 1988 and won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Webber, along with Richard Stilgoe (co-bookwriter and co-lyricist) and Charles Hart (co-lyricist) adapted Phantom into a musical in 1986, when the show premiered in London's West End. A moment when he drops a chandelier from the rafters has become one of the most iconic scenes in musical theatre history. When she falls for another man, he threatens the opera house and all its performers. At the time of closing, Phantom will have played nearly 14,000 performances the 1996 revival of Chicago, which is in second place, has run for 26 years and counting and just surpassed 10,000 performances.īased on Gaston Leroux's 1910 thriller novel, The Phantom of the Opera follows the dark, obsessive relationship between an opera ingenue and the mysterious Phantom who lives in the opera house's underbelly. ![]() The Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running show in Broadway history, but even after closing, it will maintain its record for a while. The musical's final performance is set for February 18, 2023, shortly after its 35th anniversary on Broadway on January 26. Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is set to end its Broadway run at the Majestic Theatre. The music of the night will no longer play. ![]() UPDATE: The Phantom of the Opera has extended by eight weeks and will now close on April 16. ![]()
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