NEW YORK - Musical The Phantom of the Opera ended a record-breaking 35-year Broadway run on Sunday (April 16) when, amid predictions that the show would one day return, teary-eyed cast members took a final bow alongside its original stars. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber dedicated the final Broadway performance to his son Nicholas, who died of gastric cancer last month....
Cast and crew members take a moment to applause after their final performance of the Phantom of the Opera.NEW YORK - Musical The Phantom of the Opera ended a record-breaking 35-year Broadway run on Sunday when, amid predictions that the show would one day return, teary-eyed cast members took a final bow alongside its original stars.
"In the last few months I don't think... any of us thought that 'The Phantom' would go out quite with the bang it has. And so maybe it may come back, you never know...," Lloyd Webber told a packed audience from the stage after the show.His production, whose closure date was set last year following a sharp drop in ticket sales, is based on a novel by Gaston Leroux.
A staple of the Broadway world with nearly 14,000 performances since it debuted there in 1988, the show has won over 70 major awards.
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