The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, and a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe. Inspired by the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux, it tells the tragic story of beautiful soprano Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious and disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opera…
Opened
1988
Performances
13,981
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics: Charles Hart & Richard StilgoeBook: Richard Stilgoe & Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The Phantom of the Opera is the most financially successful musical to date. At this writing there are 13 companies playing the show around the world, including productions in Toronto, San Francisco, Hamburg, Sydney, and two American touring companies.
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The Phantom of the Opera and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway both cost over $8.5 million.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber first mounted a “cabaret” production of Aspects of Love in 1983 at the annual music festival on his Sydmonton estate. The musical again involved him with his The Phantom of the Opera colleagues Charles Hart, Gillian Lynne, Maria Bjornson, and Andrew Bridges, and reunited him with director Trevor Nun…
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Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Direction (Harold Prince), Best Actor in a Musical (Crawford), Best Featured Actress Qudy Kaye), Best Scenic and Costume Designer (Maria Bjornson), and Best Lighting Designer (Andrew Bridges).
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The Phantom of the Opera was an enormous hit in London, and prior to opening on Broadway it had almost $20 million in advance sales.
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Harold Prince is the most successful producer/ director of the second half of the 20th century. He expanded the art form of musical theater first as a producer with his collaborations with Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. He continued to refine and improve the art form through highly successful collaborations with John…
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