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The music of the night time will proceed for eight weeks longer than anticipated.
The Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera” introduced in September that it could be closing in February due to declining ticket gross sales, however plans have modified.
On Tuesday, the present’s producer, Cameron Waterproof coat, introduced the present will now run till April 16.
An surprising bolster in gross sales, in addition to a busy Thanksgiving week, helped the longest-running present in Broadway historical past earn $2.2 million in gross sales final week, in keeping with The New York Instances.
“What an outstanding response there was to the present ending,” Waterproof coat advised the Instances. “We’ve offered out nearly all the pieces that we’ve got on sale.”
The musical will have fun its 35th anniversary in January.
With music by famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Phantom” incorporates a masked music lover who haunts the Paris Opera Home.
The Broadway present is directed by Hal Prince. In 1988, the present received seven Tony Awards.