'The Phantom of the Opera,' the longest-running musical in Broadway’s history, will close in 2023 after 35 years and nearly 14,000 performances
Producers announced Friday that themusical, which opened on Broadway in Jan. 1988 and won the Tony Award for Best Musical that year, would end its 35-year run at the Majestic Theater in on Feb. 18, 2023.
“As a producer you dream that a show will run forever,” producer Cameron Mackintosh said in a statement “Indeed, my production of Andrew’shas surpassed that show’s extraordinary Broadway run. But all shows do finally close.”initially rebounded out of its Covid-19 hiatus with weekly $1 million grosses, ticket sales had softened in recent months, and the musical brought in $867,997 during the week ending Sept.
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