'The Phantom of the Opera' ended its 35-year run on Sunday.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer behind Broadway’s longest-running show, told MarketWatch that he expects the musical will return at some point after it ends its 35-year run on Sunday.
Lloyd Webber has been in New York for the closing and received the key to the city on Friday from Mayor Eric Adams. Certainly, most popular Broadway shows — and there are few as popular as “Phantom” — are revived at some point. “Les Misérables,” for example, has come back twice since its 2003 closing.
Mike Rafael, a veteran theater ticket-sales professional, said that “Phantom” came back solidly after a pandemic shutdown — the show was closed for 19 months — and thinks producers could follow that playbook again.Since “Phantom” announced in September that it would be ending its record-breaking run, the show has seen its post-pandemic weekly grosses, which had been around $1 million, skyrocket to dizzying levels. For the week ending April 9, “Phantom” ran at full capacity and grossed $3.
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