NewsPHOTO CALL: There's No Stopping the Music of the Night! Phantom Celebrates 27 Years on BroadwayThe Phantom of the Opera celebrated an unprecedented 27 years on Broadway the evening of Jan. 31. The actual anniversary was Jan. 26 but the performance was canceled due to last week's snow storm.
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February 02, 2015
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There's No Stopping the Music of the Night! Phantom Celebrates 27 Years on Broadway
The Phantom of the Opera is produced by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group, has music by Lloyd Webber and is directed by Harold Prince. Lyrics are by Charles Hart (with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe), and the book is by Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber.
It has production design by the late Maria Björnson, lighting by Andrew Bridge and sound design by Mick Potter with original sound by Martin Levan. Musical staging and choreography are by Gillian Lynne. Orchestrations are by David Cullen and Lloyd Webber.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.