'The Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway’s longest-running show, is scheduled to close next year.
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’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York. The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb. 18, a spokesperson toldon Friday . The closing will come less than a month after its 35th anniversary. It will conclude with an eye-popping 13,925 performances.It is a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra.
The first production opened in London in 1986 and since then the show has been seen by more than 145 million people in 183 cities and performed in 17 languages over 70,000 performances. On Broadway alone, the musical has played more than 13,500 performances to 19 million people at The Majestic Theatre.
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