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The musical opened in London's West End in 1986 and on Broadway in New York in 1988, in a production directed by Harold Prince and starring English classical soprano Sarah Brightman (Lloyd Webber's then-wife) as Christine Daaé, screen and stage star Michael Crawford as the Phantom, and international stage performer Steve Barton as Raoul.
- Gaston Leroux
- 1986
May 25, 2024 · The Phantom of the Opera, award-winning stage musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricists Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, adapted from Gaston Leroux ’s 1910 novel of the same name. A romantic melodrama, The Phantom of the Opera premiered in London’s West End on October 9, 1986, and began its Broadway run on January 26, 1988.
- Meg Matthias
The Phantom of the Opera is Michael Crawford’s fourth major West End musical, after Barnum, Billyand Flowers for Algernon. Michael Crawford was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and began his professional career as a boy soprano in Benjamin Britten’s Let’s Make An Opera .
- Michael Crawford
- Ben Forster
- Ramin Karimloo
- Peter Polycarpou
- John Owen-Jones
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Michael Crawford and Cameron Mackintosh. Photo by Dan Wooller Michael Crawford was the original phantom back in 1986. Anecdotally, Michael was offered the part after Andrew Lloyd Webber and his then wife Sarah Brightman arrived early for her singing lesson and happened to overhear the end of the previous students lesson. Intrig...
Ben Forster with his make-up artist Tanya After winning ITV’s reality TV competition Superstar in 2012, Ben Forster stepped up to don the infamous mask in 2016. His next turn in musical theatre wasn’t so lucky as in 2018, he came off a ladder during a performance of Elf The Musical, breaking his ankle, and was unable to finish the run. All healed u...
Ramin Karimloo at West End LIVE 2016. Photo by Pamela Raith At only 28, Ramin was the youngest ever Phantom on the West End. In another piece of Phantom history, in 2010 he originated the role of the Phantom in Love Never Dies – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s official sequel to The Phantom Of The Opera. Since then, Ramin has popped up in musicals both sides...
Tom Brooke as Alexander Litvinenko & Peter Polycarpou as Boris Bereszovsky in A Very Expensive Poison. Photo by Marc Brenner Peter Polycarpou has had a long and varied career. He played the Phantom back in 1991, while he was also starring in BBC sitcom Birds Of A Feather. Since then, he’s been belting out showtunes all over the place, including Okl...
John Owen-Jones and Lucie Jones at West End LIVE 2019. Photo by Pamela Raith Playing the masked anti-hero for 3 and a half years and nearly 1,400 performances, John Owen-Jones was the longest running West End Phantom, and one of the most prolific Phantom Of The Opera actors of all time. A Les Mis and Phantom veteran, John has been appearing in prod...
Apr 14, 2023 · Michael Crawford originated the role of the Phantom in 1988, winning the Tony Award for his performance. Sarah Brightman first portrayed Christine. The celebrated soprano was married to Andrew...
- colin.mcevoy@hearst.com
- Senior News Editor, Biography.Com
Jan 21, 2005 · The Phantom of the Opera: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
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