![]() So in 1986, The Phantom of the Opera opened in London, starring Michael Crawford - known only for musical comedy at the time - and Sarah Brightman, who was then Lloyd Webber's wife. "Having done Evita and having done Cats and various things which didn't let me kind of go in that direction at all." "I was very keen to write something that was a high romance," says Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber says he didn't think much of the novel - but he thought it might make a good show. That's a far cry from the early 1980s, when the idea for the show came to composer Andrew Lloyd Webber when he picked up a copy of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel about a disfigured man in a mask who haunts the Paris Opera and falls in love with a beautiful young singer. Lines of ticket holders snake around the block before each performance at the Majestic Theatre. And, almost 18 years since it opened, it's still playing at near capacity. Since 1988, 11 million people have seen The Phantom on Broadway, where the show has netted more than half a billion dollars in tickets. ![]() ![]() The streak of 7,486 shows over nearly 18 years breaks the uber-composer's own record, which he set with Cats. From the original cast recording, The Phantom of the Opera.Īndrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera became the longest-running show in Broadway history Monday.
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