PhotosSee Phantom of the Opera Celebrate 12,000th PerformanceBroadway’s longest-running musical hit a majestic new milestone November 28.
November 29, 2016
Broadway’s longest-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera marked a special milestone November 28: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, which opened January 26, 1988, played its 12,000th performance—an achievement that would have been unthinkable to the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Rodgers & Hammerstein, who worked at a time when shows rarely exceeded 1,000 performances.
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See Phantom of the Opera Hit a Majestic New Milestone
Set in 1928, the play centers on five fabulous drag queens who were about to become dolls of Broadway in a Mae West play, until the New York vice police took them in.