‘The Phantom of the Opera’ ends Broadway run after 35 years
By Alicia Powell via Reuters Laird Mackintosh, who substituted for Ben Crawford as the Phantom takes a bow after his final performance of the Phantom of the Opera, which closes after 35 years on Broadway, in New York City, U.S., April 16, 2023. (Reuters/Caitlin Ochs) NEW YORK— Musical “The Phantom of the Opera” ended a record-breaking 35-year Broadway run on Sunday when, amid predictions that the show would one day return, teary-eyed cast members took a final bow alongside its original stars. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber dedicated the final Broadway performance to his son Nicholas, who died of gastric cancer last month. “In the last few months I don’t think… any of us thought that ‘The Phantom’ would go out quite with the bang it has. And so maybe it may come back, you never know…,” Lloyd Webber told a packed audience from the stage after the show. “It couldn’t have gone out with a better performance.” His production, whose closure date was set last year following a sharp drop in ...
