The run closed April 16, 2023
- Opened
- 1988
- Closed
- April 16, 2023
- Performances
- 13,981
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Phantom of the Opera 4 more that season
| 1986 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1987 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2020 | His Majesty's Theatre Transfer | |
| 2025 | Her Majesty's Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it306 named
William Scott Brown
Irene Cho
Nicole Fosse
Peter Kevoian
Lisa Lockwood
Lori Macpherson
Barry Mcnabb
Beth Mcvey
Dodie Pettit
Richard Warren Pugh
Candace Rogers Adler
Charles Rule
Mary Leigh Stahl
Philip Steele
Olga Talyn
Catherine Ulissey
Kenneth H Waller
Kyle Barisich
Kanisha Marie Feliciano
Jeremy Hays
Rodney Ingram
Peter Joback
Sandra Joseph
Ted Keegan
Dale Kirstein
Laird Mackintosh
Adrienne Mcewan
Thomas James O Leary
Meghan Picerno
Rebecca Pitcher
John Riddle
James Romick
Paul Adam Schaefer
Ciaran Sheehan
Jeremy Stolle
Julia Udine
Jim Weitzer
Elizabeth Welch
Craig Bennett
Bradley Dean
Geralyn del Corso
John Easterlin
Rebecca Eichenberger
Sara Esty
Jason Forbach
David Huneryager
Nehal Joshi
Amy Justman
Kara Klein
Michele Mcconnell
Leigh Munro
Nicolas F Saverine
Laurie Gayle Stephenson
Sally Williams
Lynne Abeles
Emily Addona
Dara Adler
Deanne Albert
Giselle O Alvarez
D C Anderson
Lawrence Anderson
Luann Aronson
Peter Atherton
Michael Babin
Sarah Bakker
Linda Balgord
Katie Banks
Gary Barker
Elena Jeanne Batman
Harlan Bengel
Craig A Benham
Teri Bibb
Jessica Bishop
Torrance Blaisdell
Sierra Boggess
Chris Bohannon
Victoria Born
Deborah Bradshaw
Tener Brown
Kimilee Bryant
Erick Buckley
Katharine Buffaloe
Stephen R. Buntrock
Janinah Burnett
Erin Brooke Burton
Keith Buterbaugh
Marilyn Caskey
Marisa Cerveris
David Cleveland
Courtney Combs
Maurizio Corbino
Cornel Crabtree
Darius Crenshaw
Virginia Croskery
David Cryer
John Cudia
Karen Culliver
Nicholas Cunningham
Marie Danvers
Mary D Arcy
Marcy de Gonge Manfredi
Teresa Derose
Rhonda Dillon
Deanna Doyle
Andrew Drost
Teresa Eldh
Kelly Ellenwood
Susan Facer
Melanie Field
Sara Jean Ford
Davis Gaines
Aaron Galligan Stierle
Paloma Garcia Lee
David Michael Garry
David Gaschen
Charlene Gehm
Chris Georgetti
Leslie Giammanco
Gary Giffune
Susan Gladstone
Tim Martin Gleason
Patty Goble
Nina Goldman
Rayanne Gonzales
Diana Gonzalez
Kelly Jeanne Grant
Kevin Gray
Kristina Marie Guiguet
Joe Gustern
Julie Hanson
Paul Harman
Evan Harrington
Wren Marie Harrington
Anton Harrison Lamon
Ellen Harvey
Emily Harvey
Jack Hayes
Katharine Heaton
Jessy Hendrickson
Frederic Heringes
Alina Hernandez
Nancy Hess
Arlo Hill
Heather Hill
Samantha Hill
Careen Hobart
Wayne Hobbs
Satomi Hofmann
Todd A Horman
Cristin J Hubbard
Chris Huddleston
Patricia Hurd
Mary Illes
Anita Intrieri
Susannah Israel
Mark Jacoby
Jolina Javier
Geena Jeffries
John Jellison
Diane Jennings
Tim Jerome
Timothy Jerome
Melody Johnson
Cherylyn Jones
Patrick Jones
Rebecca Judd
Leslie Judge
Kenneth Kantor
Raissa Katona
Diane Ketchie
Kfir
Kris Koop
Dale Kristien
John Kuether
Michael Lackey
Gina Lamparella
Paul Laureano
Mykal D Laury Ii
Dustin Layton
Aaron Lazar
Laurie Leblanc
Wendi Lees Smart
Michael Shawn Lewis
Norm Lewis
Sabra Lewis
Kevin Ligon
Gary Lindemann
Brad Little
Jennifer Little
Courtney Kristen Liu
Peter Lockyer
Eric Anthony Lopez
David Loring
Gianna Loungway
Marcus Lovett
Elizabeth Loyacano
Annemarie Lucania
Natasha Macaller
Sean MacLaughlin
John Macmaster
Laura Martin
Liz Mccartney
Howard McGillin
Scott Mikita
Justin Lee Miller
Greg Mills
Jason Mills
Mabel Modrono
Trista Moldovan
Rachel Anne Moore
Larry Wayne Morbitt
Aubrey Morgan
Nathan Patrick Morgan
John Horton Murray
Elizabeth Nackley
Timothy Nolen
Bronson Norris Murphy
Eric Otte
Eric Otto
Susan Owen
Geoff Packard
Hugh Panaro
Shaun R Parry
Mary Michael Patterson
Sarah Pfisterer
Maria Phegan
Tania Philip
Patricia Phillips
Patrice Pickering
Richard Poole
Matthew Prescott
Marni Raab
Jessica Radetsky
Gregory Emanuel Rahming
Erin Brooke Reiter
Gary Rideout
Rebecca Robbins
Stacey Robinson
Wesley Robinson
Sean Rollofson
Fred Rose
Melody Rubie
Anne Runolfsson
Roland Rusinek
Susan Russell
Daniel Rychlec
Paul B Sadler Jr
Janet Saia
Kristie Dale Sanders
Thomas Sandri
David Scamardo
Paul A Schaefer
Julie Schmidt
John Schroeder
Christian Sebek
Carly Blake Sebouhian
Tracy Shayne
Jeff Siebert
Ryan Silverman
Kitty Skillman Hilsabeck
Jimmy Smagula
Kate Solmssen
Elizabeth Southard
Christine Spizzo
Dana Stackpole
Megan Starr Levitt
Lorian Stein
Dawn Leigh Stone
Thomas Terry
Stephen Tewksbury
Richard Toda
John J Todd
Katie Travis
Joan Tsao
Lisa Vroman
Dianna Warren
John Wasiniak
Scott Watanabe
Jacob Keith Watson
Tug Watson
Sharon Wheatley
Jennifer Hope Wills
Bruce Winant
Johanna Wiseman
Erica Wong
Wysandria Woolsey
Kate Wray
James Zander
44 of these 306 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 262 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Anthony Warlow The Phantom of the Opera
Rebecca Caine Christine Daaé
Dale Burridge Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny
Norman Large Monsieur Gilles André
Calvin Remsberg Monsieur Richard Firmin
Leigh Munro Carlotta Guidicelli
Barbara Lang Madame Giry
Elisabeth Stringer Meg Giry
Gualtiero Negrini Ubaldo Piangi
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Harold Prince
- Choreographer
- Gillian Lynne
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 7 from 10 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Recordings 6 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Phantom of the Opera, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
The famous chandelier weighs one ton and travels at 6.5 feet per second when it "crashes." Over the Broadway run, it made that journey more than 13,000 times.
- The Phantom of the Opera is the most financially successful musical to date. At this writing there are 13 companies playing the show around the world, including productions in Toronto, San Francisco, Hamburg, Sydney, and two American touring companies. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 272
- The Phantom of the Opera and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway both cost over $8.5 million. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 22
- Andrew Lloyd Webber first mounted a “cabaret” production of Aspects of Love in 1983 at the annual music festival on his Sydmonton estate. The musical again involved him with his The Phantom of the Opera colleagues Charles Hart, Gillian Lynne, Maria Bjornson, and Andrew Bridges, and reunited him with director Trevor Nun… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 307
- Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Direction (Harold Prince), Best Actor in a Musical (Crawford), Best Featured Actress Qudy Kaye), Best Scenic and Costume Designer (Maria Bjornson), and Best Lighting Designer (Andrew Bridges). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 274
- The Phantom of the Opera was an enormous hit in London, and prior to opening on Broadway it had almost $20 million in advance sales. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 352
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 6 recordings of The Phantom of the Opera document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.