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Photo Coverage: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Celebrates 27 Years on Broadway!
By: Jennifer Broski Feb. 02, 2015
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Over the weekend, Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis, Julia Udine, Jeremy Hays and more celebrated an epic 27 of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. Having last year surpassed 11,000 performances - an unprecedented feat achieved by no other Broadway show - the New York production of PHANTOM has been running for an unheard-of 27 years at the Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street). Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the celebration!
Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince and produced by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc., is the longest-running show in Broadway history. The New York production has played an unheard-of 27 years and well over 11,000 performances to 16 million people - and continues to play with no end in sight. (By way of comparison, the second longest-running show, Chicago, remains a distant second at 18 years and 7,500 performances.) PHANTOM's astounding longevity is unprecedented.
Based on the classic novel Le Fantôme de L'Opéra by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all who inhabit it. He falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine, and devotes himself to creating a new star by nurturing her extraordinary talents and by employing all of the devious methods at his command.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
Jeremy Hays, Norm Lewis, Julia Udine
Jeremy Hays, Norm Lewis, Julia Udine, Laird Mackintosh
Kara Klein, Linda Balgord, Tim Jerome, Laird Mackintosh, Jeremy Hays, Norm Lewis, Julia Udine, Christian Sebek, Michele McConnell
Jeremy Hays, Norm Lewis, Julia Udine
Jeremy Hays, Norm Lewis, Julia Udine
Christian Sebek, Michele McConnell
Christian Sebek, Michele McConnell
Jeremy Hays, Julia Udine, Norm Lewis
Julia Udine, Norm Lewis, Kaley Ann Voorhees
Julia Udine, Norm Lewis, Kaley Ann Voorhees
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