'Gaston Leroux's opera ghost may be disappearing for now, but there is no doubt that Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece will continue to enchant audiences in London and around the world - and one day will return to Broadway,' Mackintosh said. He praised everyone who has been involved with the show over the course of the three-plus decades. Double Olivier Award nominee Killian Donnelly stars as The Phantom, alongside Lucy St Louis as Christine Daa and Matt Blaker as Raoul. 'Our gratitude to American audiences falling in love with 'The Phantom' is infinite.' 'That this legendary show has thrilled New York for nearly 35 phenomenal years is quite astounding to me,' Mackintosh said in a statement.

Once the curtain comes down on 'Phantom' for the last time, the title of Broadway's longest-running show will shift to 'Chicago,' which started in 1996.Ĭameron Mackintosh, the show's producer, said that he, the theater owner The Shubert Organization, and Webber himself decided close the show after 'considerable discussion.' The Broadway production has played more than 13,500 performances to 19 million people at The Majestic Theatre. Since the mid-1980s, more than 145 million people in 183 cities have seen the show performed in 17 languages. Other international productions are also expected to move forward. The flagship London production, which debuted in 1986, will keep going 'with no end in sight,' according to a spokesperson for the show. Common to make his Broadway debut in 'Between Riverside and Crazy'.Its lavish songs include 'Masquerade,' 'Angel of Music,' 'All I Ask of You' and 'The Music of the Night.' 'Phantom' tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine.

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