“Phantom of the Opera,” a Broadway fixture for so long that it feels like element of the fabric of New York Town, will shut just after a 35-year operate.
The beloved musical will get its closing bow at the Majestic Theatre on Feb.18, 2023, shortly after celebrating its 35th anniversary, a representative for the exhibit verified to NBC Information Friday.
The longest-functioning show in Broadway record, “Phantom” opened at the Majestic Theatre on 44th Avenue in January 1988 and has performed a lot more than 13,000 performances to day.
The New York Situations studies that the production under no circumstances really recovered from the economic fallout brought on by the pandemic — a reality that shut numerous Broadway displays.
“The yr because Broadway returned from its detrimental pandemic lockdown, the theatergoing audience has not fully rebounded, and “Phantom,” which came back again solid last drop, has not been promoting perfectly enough to defray its significant weekly managing costs,” The New Periods reports.
Meanwhile, the New York Submit reported the present has been dropping $1 million a month due to the fact its submit-COVID reopening about a year in the past.
The other global productions will continue, the agent for the Broadway show states. The flagship London output, which will celebrate its 36th anniversary on Oct. 9, proceeds to participate in with no designs to close it down. The Australian manufacturing which premiered at Sydney Opera Household will transfer the bought-out production to Arts Centre Melbourne this thirty day period, while the first Mandarin language edition of Phantom is scheduled to debut in China following yr.
“As a producer you dream that a display will operate permanently. In fact, my manufacturing of [Andrew Lloyd Webber’s] ‘Cats’ proudly declared for decades ‘Now and Eternally.’ However PHANTOM has surpassed that show’s incredible Broadway operate,” Phantom’s producer, Cameron Mackintosh, said in a statement Friday. “But all displays do lastly near, and right after substantial dialogue amongst The Shuberts, The Actually Valuable Team, Andrew and myself, we concluded that the suitable time for PHANTOM was just after the show’s 35th birthday on February 18 – a double celebration of PHANTOM’s phenomenal success.”
