Productions5 on Broadway
| 1986 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show | |
| 1987 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show | |
| 1988 | Majestic Theatre Original. · Harold Prince | 13,981 performances · 7 Tony wins |
| 2020 | His Majesty's Theatre Transfer. January 23, 2019 | |
| 2025 | Her Majesty's Theatre Transfer. April 3, 2011 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 6 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals ALW Collection | available |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
In the literature58 passages
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p272
The Phantom of the Opera and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway both cost over $8.5 million. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p22
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… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p307
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). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p274
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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p352
Harold Prince is the most successful producer/ director of the second half of the 20th century. He expanded the art form of musical theater first as a producer with his collaborations with Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. He continued to refine and improve the art form through highly successful collaborations with John… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p446
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