![]() ![]() Breaking even usually requires a steady stream of tourists, but visitors to the city have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. Some of the most popular shows – Hamilton, The Lion King and Wicked – have rebounded well, but other shows have struggled. The pandemic took its toll on Broadway with theatres closed for more than 18 months. The Lion King is next, having begun performances in 1997. The closing of Phantom would mean the longest running show crown would go to Chicago, which started in 1996. ![]() On Broadway alone, the musical has played more than 13,500 performances to 19 million people at the Majestic theatre. The first production opened in London in 1986 and since then the show has been seen by more than 145 million people in 183 cities and performed in 17 languages over 70,000 performances. (3 minutes) Last month, the producers of The Phantom of the Opera announced that after 35 years on Broadway, the show will play its final. But all shows do finally close,” producer Cameron Mackintosh said in a statement. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from. Based on Gaston Leroux’s horror novel, it tells the enticing story of The Phantom, who haunts the stage of the Paris Opera and subsequently falls in love with a beautiful young soprano. Indeed, my production of Andrew’s Cats proudly declared for decades ‘Now and Forever.’ Yet ‘Phantom’ has surpassed that show’s extraordinary Broadway run. The Phantom of the Opera (in French, Le Fantme de lOpra) is a French novel by Gaston Leroux. The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera debuted in 1988, winning seven Tony Awards including Best Musical. ![]() “As a producer you dream that a show will run for ever.
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