THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Andrew Lloyd Webber Charles Hart

The novel by Gaston Leroux

Oct 9, 1986

Michael Crawford Sarah Brightman 1986 Olivier Award and 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical. Michael Crawford won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical.

It is the longest running show in Broadway history.

It celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on Feb 11, 2012, the first production to do so.

It is the second longest-running West End musical, after

It achieved worldwide gross receipts of over $5.6 billion (RM23 billion) and total Broadway gross of $845 million (RM3.5 billion).

It had been seen by over 130 million people in 145 cities across 27 countries, and continues to play in London and New York.