‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Closing After 34 Years On Broadway

Say it ain’t so! Famed philharmonic The Phantom of the Opera volition beryllium closing its doors, according to a root with The New York Times. Despite Andrew LLoyd Webber’s incredibly fashionable accumulation being the longest-running amusement connected Broadway, plans are successful spot for the last bow astatine the Majestic Theatre to hap connected February 18, 2023, pursuing a 35th day celebratory bash.

‘The Phantom of the Opera’ volition beryllium closing successful 2023. (Shutterstock)

As for the crushed of the past curtain call, the sources said the amusement has been struggling to retrieve since reopening successful October 2021 pursuing a closure caused by the pandemic. Even with Webber himself DJing astatine the reopening, by winter, the Omicron variant of the coronavirus surged and caused the container bureau to driblet disconnected erstwhile again.

The philharmonic is wide considered 1 of the astir spectacular productions to ever deed the Great White Way. Based connected the classical caller Le Fantôme de L’Opéra by Gaston Leroux, the amusement features euphony by Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart with further lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and publication by Richard Stilgoe and Webber. The gathering of those ingenious minds came up with specified classics arsenic “The Music of the Night,” “All I Ask of You,” “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again,” “Masquerade” and the iconic rubric song.

The amusement follows the communicative of a disfigured philharmonic genius who haunts the The Paris Opera House and is known lone arsenic “The Phantom.” He soon falls for the ingenue soprano Christine, whom helium begins to tutor. Christine’s emotion for different causes mayhem — including the set’s chandelier to travel come crashing down — arsenic a climatic finale awaits the audience.

On Broadway alone, the philharmonic has played much than 13,000 performances to 19 cardinal radical astatine The Majestic Theatre. Altogether, The Phantom of the Opera has played to implicit 145 cardinal radical successful 41 countries and 183 cities successful 17 languages for much than 70,000 performances.

The Broadway mentation of the London-originated amusement won 7 Tony Awards aft opening successful 1988, including Best Musical. The archetypal Broadway formed featured Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Judy Kaye, and the late Steve Barton. The formed is presently led by Ben Crawford as The Phantom and Emilie Kouatchou arsenic Christine.