Steve Harley was originally asked to play the Phantom in London (they even recorded a music video!), but the creative team ultimately decided to eliminate the Phantom’s rock edge and cast Michael Crawford instead.Ĩ. It took four weeks and five people to build the original chandelier.ħ. He went on to win a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.Ħ. Director Hal Prince was briefly fired from the original London production, but was rehired again before rehearsals began. Early Phantom rehearsals in London included animatronic rats, a white horse and real doves flying through the theater-these ideas were scrapped before previews began.ĥ. Although the Phantom has no name in the musical, he’s called Erik in Gaston Leroux’s original novel.Ĥ. In early drafts of Phantom, the character of Christine was called “Kristin.”ģ. Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera was originally published as a poorly received serialized novel in 1909.Ģ. In honor of Phantom's Broadway birthday, here are 25 fascinating facts about the Tony-winning musical.ġ. He was inspired to write a Broadway musical about the haunting love story…and the rest is history! On January 26, The Phantom of the Opera is celebrating its 25th anniversary on Broadway, and the longest-running musical in history continues to be one of the most sought-after tickets in town. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was browsing a used bookstore in 1984 when he discovered a worn copy of The Phantom of the Opera, an out-of-print book by Gaston Leroux.
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