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PHOTO SPECIAL: Behind the Curtain! Broadway's Phantom of the Opera Releases Gorgeous Never-Before-Seen Backstage Portraits
PHOTO SPECIAL: Behind the Curtain! Broadway's Phantom of the Opera Releases Gorgeous Never-Before-Seen Backstage Portraits
The record-breaking Broadway staging of The Phantom of the Opera continues at the Majestic Theatre. Over the past month, photographer Matthew Murphy has been taking some stunning backstage photos for the show's Tumblr page . Check them out!
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Mary Michael Patterson signs in for a performance as Christine Daae.
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The iconic chandelier in all its majesty during its pre-show check, now ready to be covered up for the Auction.
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A close up view of Christine’s vanity in the Dressing Room.
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Mary Michael Patterson uses the stage for a rigorous pre-performance warm up.
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Jeremy Hays gets settled in his dressing room in the stage right tower, two flights up.
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House Props stagehand Bill Kazdan rigs The PHANTOM’s organ before the show.
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Before each performance, Production Props stagehand Joe Caruso places The Monkey in the basket for the Auction.
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Carpenter Zack Arkin offstage left, beside the Christine Dressing Room set.
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A look inside the offstage right quick-change room, featuring many of Christine’s elaborate dresses.
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Mary Michael Patterson and Kaley Ann Voorhees share a laugh in the Christine dressing room.
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The entrance door to Jeremy Hays’ Raoul dressing room.
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Christine alternate Kaley Ann Voorhees signs in at the Majestic Theatre call board.
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Jeremy Hays and Kaley Ann Voorhees chat in the stairwell backstage prior to a performance.
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Mary Michael Patterson and Kaley Ann Voorhees check-in with one another in the Christine dressing room as Mary Michael does her make-up for the performance.
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Leone Gagliardi pin curls Mary Michael Patterson’s hair as part of her prep before they can put her wig on.
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Phantom Broadway’s Andre and Firmin, Laird Mackintosh and Tim Jerome, sign Playbills for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and stay up on the news of the day online in their dressing room.
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A quiet moment for ballerina Jessica Radetsky backstage at the Majestic Theatre.
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Our orchestra of 27 musicians warms up before the performance.
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Phantom Broadway’s Christian Sebek has his sideburns applied as he turns into Ubaldo Piangi.
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Ellen Harvey waits in the wings before her entrance as Madame Giry into the first Managers scene in Act One.
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Prop man Bill Kazdan takes a moment to catch up on emails before the show in the stage left stairwell at the Majestic Theatre. Some members of our crew who appear in view of the audience wear stagehand costumes like this.
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Paul A. Schaefer in his dressing room upstairs on stage left has time for a few laughs while getting into costume.
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Music Supervisor and conductor David Caddick takes the podium to lead our Phantom Broadway orchestra.
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Jessy Hendrickson and Aubrey Morgan, members of the Ballet Chorus, warm up directly under the stage in the trap room.
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Mary Michael Patterson as Christine waits stage right at the Majestic Theatre next to Production Stage Manager Greg Livoti before her first entrance of the night.
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Michele McConnell is all smiles before taking the Majestic stage as diva Carlotta Giudicelli.
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A full house marvels at the world-famous chandelier as it ascends over the Majestic Theatre during the overture.
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Mary Michael Patterson (as Christine) waits in the stage right hallway at the Majestic before making her entrance into Hannibal.
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Production Stage Manager for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, Greg Livoti, calls the show, making sure it plays without a hitch.
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A view of the Hannibal rehearsal from stage right at the Majestic just as the elephant arrives onstage.
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Broadway’s Phantom, Norm Lewis, talks with one of the production’s carpenters, Zach Arkin, in the stage right stairwell before heading to the stage for his first entrance of the night.
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It takes an entire crew to make an opera run in Broadway’s PHANTOM. Our Carlotta Giudicelli, Michele McConnell, cracks a smile from behind the Il Muto bed after a very fast onstage costume change.
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Ensemble members Andrew Drost and Jessy Hendrickson stand off-stage right with the company to sing during Il Muto’s choral sections.
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A photograph of PHANTOM Broadway’s Raoul and Christine - played by Jeremy Hays and Mary Michael Patterson. This shot was taken from the trap room under the Majestic stage.
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Ensemble members Kelly Jeanne Grant, Elizabeth Welch, and Nathan Morgan enjoy a round of Heads Up during some down time during Act One in the basement under the Majestic Stage.
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Mary Michael Patterson in the midst of a wig change in the Majestic Theatre trap room after singing “All I Ask of You.”
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Leone Gagliardi always comes prepared to make sure Christine looks perfect at all times. Here he is unpinning Mary Michael Patterson’s wig so that they can put her Il Muto look on for the end of Act One.
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During the intermission changeover at the Majestic, the Broadway props crew flies in and places party guests for Masquerade at the top of Act Two.
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Have you noticed this guest on the grand staircase?
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A close-up on some of our Masquerade guests in their elaborate costumes. In the background the Dressing Room is stored in the air on stage left while our prop men set up elements for Act Two.
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Annual holiday drawings fill a wall backstage at the Majestic Theatre.
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Carly Blake Sebouhian and Kfir relax for a moment on the Masquerade stairs before the second act at Broadway’s PHANTOM.
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Karen Dickenson applies Justin Lee Miller’s wig in the PHANTOM Broadway wig room.
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A glimpse of a few of PHANTOM Broadway’s 111 wigs.
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Raoul dresser Terence Doherty makes sure Jeremy Hays is always impeccably dressed as the Vicomte de Chagny. Here they are in the stage left quick change area at the Majestic.
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Laird Mackintosh lingers backstage in the stage left stairwell at the Majestic towards the end of Act Two.
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Tyrel Limb removes Gina Lamparella’s wig in the stage left stairwell as she changes between the Sitz-Probe and Don Juan.
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Kyle Barisich prepares to protect the opera house as the Fire Chief.
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A collection of shoes on a stairwell backstage.
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Broadway’s Monsieur Firmin, Tim Jerome, makes a call and tends to life outside the theatre.
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A ballerina lost in time, Jessica Bishop takes a moment for a laugh and modern day luxuries before traveling back to the late nineteenth century world of PHANTOM.
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Monsieur Andre, Laird Mackintosh, shares a moment backstage at the Majestic with Jessy Hendrickson.
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Aubrey Morgan lounges in the stage right quick-change room before returning to the Majestic stage for the curtain call.
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Some of the elaborate wax detail in The Phantom’s lair.
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A close-up of one of the iconic chandelier’s lights and beads.
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All are in attendance backstage at the Majestic for another performance of Phantom on Broadway.
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One of Phantom Broadway’s make-up artists, Pearleta N. Price, applies Norm Lewis’ bald cap as the first step in his transformation into the Phantom.
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As he gets Phantom-ready, Norm Lewis uses his time in the make-up chair to catch up on some news.
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Phantom Broadway’s Christine alternate Kaley Ann Voorhees hangs out backstage at the Majestic in the Christine dressing room (as Mary Michael Patterson prepares for her performance).
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Phantom Broadway’s Monsieur Firmin, Tim Jerome, takes time to relax as he prepares for his performance.
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The cast of Phantom stars Norm Lewis as the Phantom and Julia Udine as Christine with Jeremy Hays (Raoul), Laird Mackintosh (Monsieur André), Tim Jerome (Monsieur Firmin), Linda Balgord (Madame Giry), Michele McConnell (Carlotta), Christian Šebek (Piangi), Kara Klein (Meg Giry) and Kaley Ann Voorhees (Christine alternate).
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.
For more information visit phantombroadway.com .