 The Phantom of the Opera first started as a novel written in 1911 by a
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Finally, in 2004,
the famous Broadway musical was made into a motion picture starring
Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. It had 3.2 billion box office sales to
date. And finally, on January 9th, 2006, The Phantom of the Opera was
proven to be the longest running Broadway musical ever! |
 And even today, it is celebrated for it's 20th Anniversary
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Years later, Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write it as a score for a
play. It was originally based as a horror film, but Webber wrote it as a
romance play that was set in Paris. He set the lead role, Christine, as
his wife, Sarah Brightman.
When the chandelier was first introduced to the play, it consisted of
6,000 beads. It took five people to make this masterpiece, and after it
was built, it weighed a total of one ton.
Two years after the play’s London Premier, the show opened for Broadway.
It preformed in a total of 119 cities and 24 countries worldwide. The
production won 50 major theater awards in that time. 