The longest-running Broadway show, The Phantom of the Opera, is set to come to a close after 35 years.
All good things end, and it’s no different for the longest-running theatrical show, The Phantom of the Opera. As part of celebrating its anniversary in January, it will also be having its final curtain fall on Feb. 18 at Majestic Theatre.
The broadway show has run for 35 years and has performed a whopping 13,925 shows. Since returning to the stage after the pandemic, sales have fluttered, sometimes pulling in between $867,997 and $1 million.
The show was created by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Hal Prince, and producer Cameron Mackintosh. Mackintosh shared that he hoped the show would go on “forever.”
“As a producer, you dream that a show will run forever. Indeed, my production of Andrew’s Cats proudly declared for decades ‘Now and Forever.’ Yet ‘Phantom’ has surpassed that show’s extraordinary Broadway run. But all shows do finally close,” said Mackintosh.
