The show’s flagship London production will celebrate its 36th year on October 9 and the recently premiered Melbourne version will likewise continue. International productions of the show will continue, Borowski added. Ticket sales had slowed for Broadway shows during the pandemic and “Phantom” was no exception, recently dropping from 255,000 weekly attendees in May to about 180,000 attendees in September, according to The Broadway League. Prior to the Broadway show’s conclusion, “Phantom” will celebrate its 35th anniversary on January 26 with director Seth Sklar-Heyn at the helm, Borowski said. The final performance will take place on Saturday, February, 18, 2023, at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre, Michael Borowski of The Publicity Office said in an email. Our gratitude to American audiences falling in love with The Phantom is infinite.Broadway’s longest-running show, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” will play its final five months before closing its doors for good, a spokesperson for the show told CNN Friday. He added, “Gaston Leroux’s opera ghost may be disappearing for now, but there is no doubt that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece will continue to enchant audiences in London and around the world - and one day will return to Broadway. “As a British producer who has been lucky enough to have been producing in New York for over 40 consecutive years, it has been an unparalleled honor to have presented the longest-running musical in Broadway’s history, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera,’” said Mackintosh. “The Phantom of the Opera” is produced on Broadway by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group. The current cast is led by Ben Crawford as The Phantom, Emilie Kouatchou as Christine and John Riddle as Raoul. 22, 2021.īased on the novel “Le Fantôme de L’Opéra” by Gaston Leroux, “The Phantom of the Opera” features a book by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber, music by Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart. The show shut down temporarily along with all other Broadway shows on Mar.
Under the direction of Harold Prince and featuring choreography by Gillian Lynne, the musical began previews on Jan. 26, 2023, just weeks before ending its run. The musical will celebrate its 35th anniversary on Broadway on Jan. By closing, the musical will have played a total of 13,925 performances. “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in Broadway history, will end its run on Feb.
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