Phantom Of The Opera Tickets : It Is Also The Second-longest-running West End Musical

The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

, based on the French novel Le Fantome de l'Opera by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator, but withdrew due to illness after some initial work on a single song, "Masquerade".

The central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daae, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius.The Phantom of the Opera opened in the West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. It became the longest-running musical in Broadway history after overtaking Cats in 2006. It is also the second-longest-running West End musical.

Cast recordings have been made of the London, German, Austrian, Japanese, Mexican, Korean, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian and Canadian productions.The recording of the 1986 original London cast, released by Polydor Records in 1987, became the first album in British musical history to enter the UK albums chart at #1.It was released in both a single CD Highlights From The Phantom of the Opera and a two CD Phantom of the Opera, both of which have been certified 4 Platinum in the US.

Phantom was also certified 3 Platinum in the UK and 2 Platinum in Canada.In Switzerland, Phantom was certified 3 Platinum and Highlights was certified 2 Platinum.Recordings of the Vienna cast and the Hamburg cast were certified Gold and triple Platinum, respectively, in Germany.A live recording of the October 2011 25th anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London (see above) is scheduled to be released,along with Blu-Ray and DVD videos and a collectors' box set of the Royal Albert concert, the original cast recording, and the sequel, Love Never Dies.

In 1987, the heirs of Giacomo Puccini charged in a lawsuit that the climactic phrase in "Music of the Night" closely resembled a similar phrase in the sequence "Quello che tacete" from Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West.The litigation was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.In 1990, a Baltimore songwriter named Ray Repp filed a lawsuit alleging that the title song from Phantom was based on a song that he wrote in 1978 called "Till You."

After eight years of litigation including an unsuccessful countersuit by Lloyd Webber claiming that "Till You" was itself a plagiarism of "Close Every Door" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat the jury found in Lloyd Webber's favor.

Roger Waters has repeatedly claimed in interviews that the signature descending/ascending half-tone chord progression from Phantom's title song was plagiarised from the bass line of a track on the Pink Floyd album Meddle called Echoes.

An edited production renamed Phantom The Las Vegas Spectacular opened 24 June 2006 at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in a theatre built specifically for the show to resemble the Opera Garnier in Paris.The production runs 95 minutes with no intermission, and was created by the original director and choreographer, Harold Prince and Gillian Lynne, with scenic designs by David Rockwell.

The show features updated technology and effects, including advanced pyrotechnics and strobe lighting, and a much-heralded, re-engineered chandelier capable of reassembling in midair during the overture while the entire interior of the venue (not merely the stage) magically returns to its 1880s halcyon days.

by: Amanda Harrison

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