Indeed, my production of Andrew's `Cats' proudly declared for decades `Now and Forever.' Yet `Phantom' has surpassed that show's extraordinary Broadway run. "As a producer you dream that a show will run forever. Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish songs include "Masquerade," ΓÇ│Angel of Music," ΓÇ│All I Ask of You" and "The Music of the Night." Last week, it hit US$867,997 and producers may have seen the writing on the wall.īased on a novel by Gaston Leroux, "Phantom" tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine. Box office grosses have fluctuated since the show reopened after the pandemic - going as high as over US$1 million a week but also dropping to around US$850,000. It is a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra. It will conclude with an eye-popping 13,925 performances. The closing will come less than a month after its 35th anniversary. 18, a spokesperson told The Associated Press on Friday. The musical - a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts - will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb.
It's prog rock with a sense of humor as well as dynamics, and Queen never bettered their approach anywhere else."The Phantom of the Opera" - Broadway's longest-running show - is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theatre attendance in New York.
But the appeal - and the influence - of A Night at the Opera is in its detailed, meticulous productions. No one in the band takes anything too seriously, otherwise the arrangements wouldn't be as ludicrously exaggerated as they are. Using the multi-layered guitars of its predecessor as a foundation, A Night at the Opera encompasses metal ("Death on Two Legs," "Sweet Lady"), pop (the lovely, shimmering "You're My Best Friend"), campy British music hall ("Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon," "Seaside Rendezvous"), and mystical prog rock ("'39," "The Prophet's Song"), eventually bringing it all together on the pseudo-operatic "Bohemian Rhapsody." In short, it's a lot like Queen's own version of Led Zeppelin IV, but where Zep find dark menace in bombast, Queen celebrate their own pomposity. Queen were straining at the boundaries of hard rock and heavy metal on Sheer Heart Attack, but they broke down all the barricades on A Night at the Opera, a self-consciously ridiculous and overblown hard rock masterpiece.
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