Phantom Of The Opera Tickets and Seating
The 1986 musical is not the first to use the story of the Phantom of the Opera. The story originated in 1910 from the pen of Gaston Leroux and Ken Hill attempted to bring that novel to life on stage to little avail. It took Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mind for big budget musicals to make this story rich with potential a bona fide theatrical hit.
Andrew Lloyd Webber took up this cause after Cameron Makintosh expressed an interest in working with him after co-producing two of Webber’s previous works, Cats and Song and Dance. Webber has decently picked up the original novel and watched the two early movies. He decided he wanted a shot to make Phantom of the Opera the hit he knew it could be.
He recruited a number of lyricists, but eventually completed the project with a young and unknown Charles Hart. Webber also reached out to Maria Bjornson to design the costumes and set and Hal Prince to lead as director. The result was a tremendous creative team to help an original cast featuring Michael Crawford as the Phantom; Sarah Brightman as Christine Daae, as the Swedish chorus girl who begins her ascent and is the object of the Phantom’s obsession; Steve Barton as Raoul, Daae’s childhood sweetheart,; and Rosemary Ashe as Carlotta Giudicelli, the prima donna who must fall from grace for Daae to ascend.
The West End production debuted at Her Majesty’s Theatre on October 9, 1986 and has been there ever since. The Broadway production debuted at the Majestic Theatre on January 26, 1988 and remains a constant at that location. Get your Phantom of the Opera tickets to see this show before it finally ends its runs, especially with the long-awaited sequel not too far in the future.