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View all search results‘Phantom of the Opera’ ends record Broadway run with final curtain call
Producers decided it was time to end the record-breaking run after the show struggled to rebound from Broadway’s 18-month closure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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fter 35 years and almost 14,000 performances, the curtain fell on Sunday for the final time on the longest-running show in Broadway history, The Phantom of the Opera.
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.
The melodrama about a masked musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House and whose heart aches for the young soprano Christine has been seen by 20 million people and grossed over US$1.4 billion in ticket sales.
But producers decided it was time to end the record-breaking run after the show struggled to rebound from Broadway’s 18-month closure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spectator Daniel Wright said that while he’d seen the show multiple times, the final night was “extraordinary”.
“There were so many moments when I teared up, goose bumps, it was just a well-crafted show,” the 56-year-old told AFP. “There are reasons why it has been around for 35 years. It’s a timeless classic, it has touched so many people’s lives.”
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 Jan. 9, 2006.
