![]() ![]() It is the longest-running musical in Broadway history, the second-longest-running West End musical, and arguably the world's most financially successful single entertainment project to date. The Phantom of the Opera opened in the West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. The central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator, but he withdrew after completing work on a single song, Masquerade, and died shortly thereafter. Additional lyrics were written by Richard Stilgoe. The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart. Each performance has 230 costumes, 14 dressers, 120 automated cues, 22 scene changes, 281 candles and uses 250 kg of dry ice and 10 fog and smoke machines.The Phantom of the Opera is a musical/opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.There are 130 cast, crew and orchestra members directly involved in each performance.Each one is handmade and combed through with an Afro comb. They are made up of 250 kilos of dyed wool interwoven with 5,000 wooden beads imported from India. The tasselled fringes measure 226 metres. 2,230 metres of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed.The face is moisturised, closely shaved and the prosthetics are fitted, setting immediately, before 2 wigs, 2 radio microphones and 2 contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed. The Phantom’s make-up takes 2 hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off. ![]() The original version was built by 5 people in 4 weeks. The touring version falls at 2.5 metres per second. The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string.Technical Facts about the Original Production On 9 January 2006 the New York production overtook Cats to become the longest-running show in Broadway history with its 7,486 th On 7 July 2014 it celebrated its 11,000 th performance on Broadway.The original cast recording was the first in British musical history to enter the charts at number one.Won over 70 major theatre awards including 3 Olivier Awards, an Evening Standard Award, 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical, 7 Drama Desk Awards and 5 Outer Critic Circle Awards.Played in 15 different languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Castilian, Hungarian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Estonian and Russian. ![]()
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