BREAKING: 'Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway's longest-running show, to close next year after 35-year run
"The year since Broadway returned from its damaging pandemic lockdown, the theatergoing audience has not fully rebounded, and “Phantom,” which Meanwhile, thethe show has been losing $1 million a month since its post-COVID reopening about a year ago.
The other international productions will continue, the representative for the Broadway show says. The flagship London production, which will celebrate its 36th anniversary on Oct. 9, continues to play with no plans to close it down. The Australian production which premiered at Sydney Opera House will move the the sold-out production to Arts Centre Melbourne this month, while the first Mandarin language version of Phantom is scheduled to debut in China next year.
"As a producer you dream that a show will run forever. Indeed, my production of [Andrew Lloyd Webber’s]"Cats" proudly declared for decades ‘Now and Forever.’ Yet PHANTOM has surpassed that show’s extraordinary Broadway run," Phantom's producer, Cameron Mackintosh, said in a statement Friday.
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