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  • "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux



    • Fast Facts

  • The Broadway production became the longest running show every on Broadway when it overtook Cats with its 7,486th performance on January 6th 2006.

  • Joel Schumacher directed a big screen version of the show which was released worldwide at the end of 2004. It starred Gerard Butler as The Phantom, Emmy Rossum as Christine, Patrick Wilson as Raoul and Minnie Driver as Carlotta.

  • It is estimated that Phantom has been seen by more than 80 million people worldwide, with total ticket sales of more than $3.2 billion.

  • The Phantom has been produced in hundreds of cities, in more than 20 countries around the world, including UK, US, New Zealand, Japan, Austria, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Korea, Denmark, Spain and Russia.

  • The Phantom opened at Her Majesty's Theatre, London on 27th September 1986 and at the Majestic Theatre in New York on 9th January 1988.

  • The show has won over 50 major theatre awards including 3 Olivier Awards, the most recent being the 2002 Oliver Audience Award for Most Popular Show, an Evening Standard Award, 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical, 7 Drama Desk Awards and 3 Outer Critic Circle Awards.

  • The original cast album of the Phantom of the Opera was the first in British musical history to enter the music charts at number 1. Album sales now exceed forty million worldwide and it is the biggest selling cast album of all time.

  • The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string. It is 3 metres wide and weighs one ton. The touring version falls at 2.5 metres per second. The original version was built by 5 people in 4 weeks.

  • The Phantom's make-up takes 2 hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off. The face is moisturized, closely shaved and the prosthetics are fitted, setting immediately, before 2 wigs, 2 radio mics and 2 contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed.

  • 2,230 metres of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed. The tasseled fringes measure 226 metres. They are made up of 250 kilos of dyed wool interwoven with 5,000 wooden beads imported from India. Each one is handmade and combed through with an Afro comb.

  • There are 130 cast, crew and orchestra members directly involved in each performance.

  • Each performance has 230 costumes, 14 dressers, 120 automated cues, 22 scene changes, 281 candles and uses 250 kg of dry ice and 10 fog and smoke machines.

  • The touring production takes 27 articulated lorries to transfer the set between theatres.

    Awards the production has accquired:

    1986 LONDON Olivier Awards
    Outstanding Performance in a Musical - Michael Crawford
    Musical of the Year

    London Evening Standard
    Best Musical

    2002 Olivier Awards
    Audience Award for Most Popular Show 1999/2001 UK Group Leisure Industry Award
    Best Theatre Production

    1988 NEW YORK Tony Awards
    Best Musical
    Leading Actor in a Musical - Michael Crawford
    Featured Actress in a Musical - Judy Kaye
    Director - Hal Prince
    Sets - Maria Bjornson
    Costumes - Maria Bjornson
    Lighting - Andrew Bridge

    1988 Drama Desk Awards
    Best Direction - Hal Prince
    Actor in a Musical - Michael Crawford
    Best Music - Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Best Orchestration - David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Best Scenery - Maria Bjornson
    Best Costumes - Maria Bjornson
    Best Lighting - Andrew Bridge

    1988 Outer Critics Circle Awards
    Best Musical
    Best Design - Maria Bjornson
    Best Actor - Michael Crawford

    1989/90 LOS ANGELES Drama Critics Awards
    Best Actor - Michael Crawford
    Best Sets - Maria Bjornson
    Best Costumes - Maria Bjornson
    Best Lighting

    1989/90 TORONTO Dora Mavor Moore Awards
    Outstanding Production
    Outstanding Male Performance - Colm Wilkinson
    Outstanding Direction
    Outstanding Costume Design
    Outstanding Lighting Design

    1989/90 STOCKHOLM Guldmasken Awards
    Best Set Design
    Best Leading Actor - Mikael Samuelson
    Best Supporting Actor - Bert-Ake Varg
    Producer - Goran Lindgren

    Svenska Dagbladets Operapris
    Mikael Samuelson

    1990 AUSTRALIA Mo Awards
    Musical Theatre Performer of the Year - Anthony Warlow
    Supporting Female Musical Theatre Performer - Christa Leahmann
    Male Musical Theatre Performer - Anthony Warlow
    Female Musical Theatre Performer - Marina Prior
    Musical Theatre Production - The Phantom of the Opera

    1991 Victorian Tourism and Australian Hotels Association Awards
    Best Tourist Attraction - The Phantom of the Opera/Melbourne

    1991 Womens Weekly Golden Gavel Awards
    Miscellaneous - The Phantom of the Opera/Melbourne

    1991 Australian Tourism Award
    Award of Distinction in Festivals and Special Events - The Phantom of the Opera/Melbourne

    1991 Victorian Green Room Awards
    Production - Cameron Mackintosh
    Direction - Harold Prince
    Set Design - Maria Bjornson
    Costume Design - Maria Bjornson
    Male Performer in a Leading Role - Anthony Warlow
    Female Performer in a Leading Role - Marina Prior

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