Footage from all three performances were edited together to create this film record, which was later shown in cinemas. To mark the musical's 25th anniversary in 2011, Laurence Connor directed a deluxe new staging of the show at London's grand Royal Albert Hall, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, with some 200 performers in the cast and orchestra.
If you're like about 130 million other people on the planet, there's a good chance you have seen 'Phantom' already-it is by far the longest-running show in Broadway history, and has grossed more than $6 billion worldwide-but this performance differs from Harold Prince's classic original staging. The libretto, adapted from Gaston Leroux's novel, is by Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber.
This is Andrew Lloyd Webber's greatest hit of them all: a timeless tale of candlelit romance between a pretty young singer and the mask-wearing serial killer who has been stalking her from his subterranean lair beneath a 19th-century Parisian opera house. Here’s what to expect:įriday October 9: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Though The Shows Must Go On YouTube series continues with a weekly schedule of non-Lloyd Webber musicals, the Phantom is making a return this week.Īs before, the show goes live on the channel on Friday at 7pm BST (2pm EDT, 5am AEDT), and remains viewable for 48 hours afterward (24 hours in the UK and Ireland). Now there’s another chance to catch the biggest Lloyd Webber show of them all: ‘ The Phantom of the Opera’. Links to charitable organisations were provided. In addition to full-length videos, the channel streamed clips and behind-the-scenes footage. The composer’s Really Useful Group, in partnership with Universal, started offering free broadcasts of the greatest Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, including such megahits as ‘ Cats’ and ‘ Jesus Christ Superstar’.Ī different Lloyd Webber musical was streamed each week on The Shows Must Go On!, a YouTube channel devoted to this project. Back in April, as lockdowns kept theatres dark on Broadway and beyond, arts institutions like the National Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera helped keep the ghost light burning by providing filmed versions of stage shows to audiences at home. Soon composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, a veritable institution unto himself, was pitching in as well.
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