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After 35 years, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera took its final curtain call on Sunday night at the Majestic Theatre in New York. This was show No. 13,981 of the longest-running show in Broadway history and was dedicated by Lloyd Webber to his son Nicholas who died last month after a battle with gastric cancer.
Amid a standing ovation, Webber said, “I hope you won’t mind if I dedicate this performance to my son, Nick.” Turning to original Phantom star, Sarah Brightman, the composer recalled, “When Nick was a little boy, he heard some of this music.”
Said Brightman, “Yes, he did. When Andrew was writing it, he was right there. So his soul is with us. Nick, we love you very much.”
Also on Sunday night, Brightman performed the musical’s most famous song, “The Music of the Night,” along with current cast, previous actors and crew members, according to the Daily Mail.
After the show, Lloyd Webber commented, “Thank you to absolutely everyone who has made this extraordinary run possible… It is just amazing really what has happened, and in the last few months I don’t think any of us thought that Phantom would go out quite with the bang it has.”
That was likely a reference to the phenomenal sell-out business Phantom has done of late, topping the box office chart again in the week before Easter with over $3.6M.
Quipped Lloyd Webber, “So it may come back, you never know.” He added, “What I would like to say is if it was going to go out with a bang it couldn’t have gone out with a better performance.”
Producers announced last September that the show would be closing, originally in February, but then with a two-month extension to yesterday. The average ticket price back in September was about $83; in the run-up
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Andrew Lloyd Webber detailed the last moments he spent with his son who died on hospice late last month from stomach cancer. "An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away," the "Phantom of the Opera" composer recalled telling his late son Nicholas "Nick" Lloyd Webber while he was on hospice in March, quoting English humorist P.G. Wodehouse. "I was speaking in P.G.
said The Post; “Bring earplugs … Bring eye plugs,” echoed the Times. On March 25, the day after it opened, a source claimed the show did a paltry $80,000 in ticket sales. Another said the number was “significantly higher,” but box-office business has demonstrably not been brisk.For a more than $20 million musical, $750,000 would have been an ideal take after the enhanced visibility from reviews.
The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical that closed its Broadway run on Sunday after 35 years, went out on a very high note: Box office receipts for the show’s final week hit a best-ever $3,739,934.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber on Sunday, as the curtain came down one final time for Broadway's .After a 35-year run and almost 14,000 shows, Broadway's longest-running show had its final performance at the Majestic Theatre. The show also marked Webber's first appearance since the death of his 43-year-old son, Nicholas, who died in March following a battle with cancer.Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber dedicates the final «Phantom of the Opera» Broadway performance to his son, Nick, who passed away last month.
Broadway performance of “The Phantom of the Opera” was for phamily. The famous chandelier fell one last time over the heads of an invitation-only crowd at the Majestic Theatre, where the show’s composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and producer Cameron Mackintosh were joined not only by famous friends and well-wishers, including Glenn Close and Lin-Manuel Miranda, but also former Phantoms, like Hugh Panaro and Howard McGillin, and former Christines, including Sarah Brightman (the 1988 original) and Sierra Boggess. They were surrounded by a host of past cast, crew and industry workers who had been affiliated with the show and its creatives over the course of its record-breaking run, the longest in Broadway history. There were even a few attendees in full Phantom attire, both the elaborate, skeleton-faced masquerade outfit and the iconic half-mask-and-cape ensemble.
It’s the end of an era on Broadway as the long-running musical "The Phantom of the Opera" delivers its final performance. Sunday marked the show’s 13,981 performance, cementing its record as the longest running show in Broadway history.
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“Phantom” would finally end its storied run, ticket sales exploded. During the final two months, the musical has returned to being the highest-grossing production on Broadway, not to mention the hottest ticket in town — despite being more than three decades old.
“Phantom of the Opera” – Broadway’s longest-running show. “I grew up on his plays and the performances from ‘Phantom of the Opera.’ One of the longest-running performances is closing, but it gave us many years of just joy throughout the years,” gushed Adams outside the Majestic Theater on West 44th Street.“Phantom” will close this Sunday, April 16 after a 35-year-long run on Broadway. The show first appeared in London’s West End in 1986 before coming to New York in 1988.“But you have brought us so much joy, so much happiness.