The Broadway version of The Phantom of the Opera is ending after 35 years.
The longest-running production of the Great White Way, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, will make its farewell appearance at the Majestic Theatre on February 18, 2023. The New York Times reports that The Phantom of the Opera is the most recent COVID victim due to a drop in audience size.
“The Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group’s Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince — the longest-running show in Broadway history — is confirmed to play its final 5 months,” according to show officials.
When the lights went up on Broadway in September, the production made a comeback after the epidemic forced all performances to end on March 12, 2020. Ain’t Too Proud, Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, and Thoughts of a Colored Man are just a few of the series that have since ended their runs.
Tickets are presently on sale for performances through January 22, 2023, according to the official website for The Phantom of the Opera. We anticipate the last block of tickets to go on sale soon.
Fans who want to see the musical in person after February must fly to London, where it will continue to run next month when it marks its 36th anniversary. The program’s first season in Mandarin is expected to premiere in China in 2023.
The 2004 motion picture starring Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, Patrick Wilson, and Minnie Driver and directed by Joel Schumacher is another possibility. You can choose a video version of the stage production, such as the 25th Anniversary Celebration captured at Royal Albert Hall, if its 33% Rotten Tomatoes rating turns you off.
The well-known musical premiered in 1986 on London’s West End and was based on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 French novel. In 1988, when it made its New York debut, it was honored with seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Emilie Kouatchou, Ben Crawford, and John Riddle are the main actors in the current Broadway production, which Harold Prince directed.