The curtain of the world’s longest theater was pulled down/ 35 years of performance, 145 million viewers, 13 thousand times the one-ton chandelier fell!

According to Fars news agency’s theater correspondent, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” theater staged its last performance yesterday after 35 years of continuous performance in the Broadway theater to set the record for the longest performance of a play.

Andrew Lloyd Webber dedicated the final performance of Broadway’s “Phantom of the Opera” to his late son. The composer’s eldest son, Nicholas Lloyd Webber, died in March following an 18-month battle with stomach cancer.

After 35 years, the longest-running Broadway show in New York closed on Sunday. In a video shared by the Associated Press, the audience, actors and crew of the “Phantom of the Opera” can be seen, the official end of the performance was announced.

* 13,000 one-ton chandelier falls / one fall per performance

“Phantom of the Opera” wrapped up the longest run in Broadway history with a spectacular finale on Sunday night, in which even the stage’s one-ton chandelier, which had just fallen for the 13,981th time on the stage of the Majestic Theatre, found its own expression.

“It’s really amazing, what’s happened,” said composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who wrote the show’s soaring theme song, as he dedicated the performance to his son Nicholas, who died three weeks ago.

*145 million viewers

“The Phantom of the Opera” was a hit on Broadway, seeing a total of 145 million people and grossing $1.36 billion since opening in January 1988. This is despite the fact that the said show experienced a drop for about two years due to the Corona epidemic conditions.

Interestingly, this theater was originally supposed to be closed last September. This news caused many enthusiasts to flock to see it and it also set a record of sales of three million dollars in one week.

wait! The show still goes on!

Interestingly, this show with Lloyd Webber’s music and Charles Hart’s lyrics is still performed in London. Of course, the amount of agents and actors and orchestra and some other facilities of this show have been reduced to be able to manage the costs of this big performance in London, while “The Phantom of the Opera” is also currently performed in Japan, South Korea, Sweden and the Czech Republic. will be And it is scheduled to open in China next month, in Italy in July and in Spain in October.

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