After a spectacular run of 35 years, the longest-running show in Broadway history ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ is going to come to a end. The show will end in February next year after celebrating a major milestone.
Today’s announcement confirmed by New York Post stated that the legendary show will celebrate its 35th anniversary in January and bid farewell to the audience on February 18 at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre.
The show first premiered on London’s West End in October 1986 before making its Broadway debut on January 26, 1988. The production was created by three musical theatre greats: composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Hal Prince, and producer Cameron Mackintosh.
The Broadway production, which is based on Gaston Leroux‘s 1910 French novel of the same name, tells the tale of a mysterious opera lover who haunts the Paris Opera House after developing an obsession with a stunning soprano.
Because “Phantom” had begun to seem like a permanent part of the Broadway landscape, a period piece and a tourist attraction that stood apart from the vicissitudes of the commercial theatre marketplace, the closing is both long-expected and startling. It was the most recent program to suffer from the audience decline that has occurred since the outbreak. ()
