The musical “The Phantom of the Opera” is canceled – Muricas News

The musical “Phantom of the Opera” in New York shall be discontinued in February – after 35 years. No play will be seen on Broadway longer. Will probably be carried out for the final time on February 18, 2023, the business web site broadway.com stated. Consultants blamed the lack of viewers attributable to the corona pandemic for the choice.

The musical with the music of the British Andrew Lloyd Webber premiered on January 26, 1988. As a rule, eight performances per week have been proven on Broadway, and nearly 20 million folks visited the musical in New York alone. Additionally the New York Occasions studies the tip. Accordingly, the field workplace outcomes of the present had lately decreased. After the tip of the pandemic restrictions, “The Phantom” initially received off to a robust begin in autumn final yr, however the excessive working prices couldn't have been lined.

Within the week that ended on September eleventh, about 867,000 euros have been recorded. This earnings isn't excessive sufficient to maintain a musical with a big forged and elaborate stage design going. Based on the Broadway League, the Broadway musical grossed a complete of 1.3 billion dollars, it's a vacationer magnet and an integral a part of the stage panorama on New York’s Broadway.

sea New York Occasions the musical can proceed to be seen elsewhere: the London manufacturing was closed in 2020 on the top of the pandemic, however resumed a yr later with a smaller orchestra. The primary manufacturing in Mandarin is scheduled to be staged in China subsequent yr. Antonio Banderas can be engaged on a Spanish language manufacturing.

Because it premiered in London in 1986, the play has reportedly been seen by greater than 145 million folks in 183 cities world wide. It has been carried out in 17 languages. The mannequin for the “Phantom of the Opera” is the novel by the French Gaston Leroux from 1911 a few musical genius with a disfigured face who lives within the catacombs of the Paris Opera round 1870 and falls in love with a younger singer. The murderous phantom hides his face behind a masks.