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Phantom Heading On UK Tour?

The Phantom of the Opera could be set for a UK tour next year, according to reports from BroadwayWorld.com and Variety. The long-running show, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, opened in the West End in 1986 and is the second-longest running musical in London after Les Miserables. The show has a story based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart.
New Production to Follow Les Miz Model?
	Now producer Cameron Mackintosh is apparently keen to present a newly imagined production, which will premiere in the UK before touring internationally. The production could follow in the footsteps of the popular Les Miserables 25th anniversary tour, which began performances in December 2009 at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff with new designs to sets and costumes and revisions to the original orchestrations. Laurence Connor, the co-director of the Les Miserables tour, is reportedly in line to work on the new Phantom project. The creative team could also include set and costume designer Paul Brown and Olivier Award-winning War Horse lighting designer Paule Constable.
London’s Greatest Love Story Conquers the World Billed as London’s Greatest Love Story, The Phantom of the Opera tells the enduring tale of a beautiful Swedish singer named Christine Daaé who becomes tHe obsession of the secretive musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. The original London cast featured Michael Crawford as “The Phantom” and Sarah Brightman as “Christine”. There are currently ten global productions, from London to Osaka, with worldwide takings estimated at over $5 billion. Although the long-running North American tour closed in 2010, the Broadway production, which opened in 1988, is now the longest-running musical in the history of the Great White Way! The Phantom of the Opera Theatre Breaks

Posted by Ben on Thursday 7th April 2011 at 11:38AM

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