Since opening in January 1988, Andrew Lloyd Webber's megahit musical has wowed New Yorkers and tourists alike, becoming a symbol of the famous theater district.
NEW YORK - After 35 years and almost 14,000 performances, the curtain fell for the final time Sunday on the longest-running show in Broadway history - The Phantom of the Opera.
Spectator Daniel Wright said that while he'd seen the show multiple times, the final night was "extraordinary." The show, adapted from Gaston Leroux's French novel of the same name, won seven 1988 Tony Awards, including best musical, and became the longest-running show in Broadway history on 9 January 2006.Sunday's show in front of a sold-out crowd at the Majestic Theatre off Times Square was performance number 13,981.
"Thank you all, thank you everybody and thank you New York for being such a wonderful home for us," he said.British producer Cameron Mackintosh told the New York Times in September last year that the production began incurring losses due to the slow return of international visitors to the Big Apple after the pandemic.It takes about 125 actors, musicians and technicians to put on the musical, which sees a chandelier crash to the stage during one of its most memorable acts.
In the run-up to the final performance this week, the last tickets were selling for more than $500 on booking sites.The accolade for longest-running musical on Broadway now belongs to Chicago, which premiered in 1996, ahead of The Lion King, which opened the following year.
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