The prosthetics are then covered by a mask, and actor who plays the role has his own custom-molded mask. It takes two hours to apply the Phantom’s makeup (and 30 minutes to take it off).The original version was built by five people in four weeks. The enormous replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier in The Phantom of the Opera has 6,000 beads and weighs one ton.As Frank Rich wrote in his review of the musical: “It may be possible to have a terrible time at ‘The Phantom of the Opera,’ but you'll have to work at it.” So why work? Relish the production’s lush and lavish sets and costumes (230, to be exact), and allow yourself to be swept away and enchanted by the music of the night at The Phantom of the Opera in New York. (Just try not to leave the theatre singing “Beware, the Phantom of the Opera” or “Think of me, think of me fondly…”)īased on the French novel by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway won seven Tony Awards in 1988, including Best Musical and Best Director for Harold Prince. The show features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and a book by Webber and Stilgoe. The The Phantom of the Opera musical is the longest running show on Broadway and the most successful production, both in terms of generating profit and creating jobs, in U.S. Get The Phantom of the Opera tickets on TodayTix.

What’s not to love? Nothing, obviously, as more than 140 million people have seen Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece in 45 countries.

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