"As a producer you dream that a show will run forever. Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish songs include "Masquerade," ΓÇ│Angel of Music," ΓÇ│All I Ask of You" and "The Music of the Night." Last week, it hit US$867,997 and producers may have seen the writing on the wall.īased on a novel by Gaston Leroux, "Phantom" tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine. Box office grosses have fluctuated since the show reopened after the pandemic - going as high as over US$1 million a week but also dropping to around US$850,000. It is a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra. It will conclude with an eye-popping 13,925 performances. The closing will come less than a month after its 35th anniversary. 18, a spokesperson told The Associated Press on Friday. The musical - a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts - will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb. Other well-known musical by Webber include "Cats," "Evita," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," and most-recently "Cinderella."The Phantom of the Opera" - Broadway's longest-running show - is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theatre attendance in New York. "The Phantom of the Opera" debuted on Broadyway's Majestic Theatre in January 1988 and has drawn audiences of all ages to watch the story of Christine, Raoul, and the titular phantom.Īt the 1988 Tonys the production won seven awards including Best Musical, Best Direction for the late Hal Prince, and Best Performance by a Leading Actor (Musical) for Michael Crawford. "There is no doubt that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece will continue to enchant audiences in London (West End) and around the world – and one day will return to Broadway,” said Mackintosh. The show's producer Cameron Mackintosh, a frequent collaborator of Webber, vowed in a statement that "The Phantom of the Opera" would stage a Broadway comeback sometime in the future. The production was shut down at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, reopening in October 2021 but ticket sales wavered at the turn of the year coupled by the spread of the Omicron variant. MANILA, Philippines - Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit sensation "The Phantom of the Opera," the longest-running musical on Broadway, will be ending its run in February 2023.
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