Details Revealed for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 25th Anniversary Box Set

25 years after Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman opened the show in London, a box set celebrating the show's anniversary is being prepped for an October 3 UK release. No US release date has yet been set.

According to the Universal Music store, the box set includes an Original Cast Recording, Love Never Dies cast recording, DVD, Hardback Book, Replica First Night Programme and an exclusive medallion.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the London opening of the world's greatest entertainment phenomenon, The Phantom Of The Opera 25th Anniversary Celebration box set is a sumptuous 4-CD and 1 DVD set that tells its story. This collection, overseen by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, contains the original recording of The Phantom Of The Opera. Listen again to timeless standards such as All I Ask Of You, The Music Of The Night and Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, and you realise how much they have become part of the very fabric of musical theatre. Included also is its 2009 sequel, Love Never Dies, packaged in a collectors once-only design.

The audio and visual of the set is completed by The Phantom Phenomenon, an hour-long DVD that gathers together footage, some rare and unseen since broadcast that celebrates the show's history. But that is only half the story. The set is strictly limited and comes numbered with an exclusive POTO medallion; made in Great Britain. A 160-page hardback book written by acclaimed author Michael Heatley tells the story from page to stage and is exclusive to this set for a period of six months. To finish the package off, there is a facsimile of the 60-page opening night programme from Her Majesty's Theatre in 1986. This is a beautiful, limited edition souvenir.

TRACK LISTING:

Disc 1 - Original London Cast: Phantom Of The Opera

01. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Prologue (The Stage Of Paris Opera House, 1905)
02. Original London Cast - Overture
03. Sarah Brightman, Steve Barton - Think Of Me (Album Version)
04. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Angel Of Music (Album Version)
05. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Little Lotte.../ The Mirror... (Angel Music) (Album Version)
06. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - The Phantom Of The Opera (Album Version)
07. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - The Music Of The Night (Album Version)
08. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - I Remember.../Stranger Than You Dream It... (Album Version)
09. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Magical Lasso... (Album Version)
10. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Notes/Prima Donna (Album Version)
11. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh (Album Version)
12. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Why Have You Brought Me Here (Album Version)
13. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - All I Ask Of You (Album Version)
14. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - All I Ask Of You (Reprise)

Disc 2 - Original London Cast: Phantom Of The Opera

01. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Entr'acte (Act Two - Six Months Later) (Album Version)
02. Original London Cast - Masquerade / Why So Silent
03. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Notes.../Twisted Every Way (Album Version)
04. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Album Version)
05. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Wandering Child../Bravo, Monsieur (Album Version)
06. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - The Point Of No Return (Album Version)
07. Michael Reed, Original London Cast - Down Once More.../Track Down This Murderer... (Album Version)

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