The bad guy must suffer horrifically for his actions, killed by either angry mob or falling rocks, it was just how things were. While people were certainly confused by this dramatic change in tone at first, they came to love it as its own musical drama with an incredible score.īoth of these films have the same distributor in Universal Pictures, but their differences are like night and day, both showing that they understand the deep melodrama and intrigue of the story while missing the nuance of the tragic villain. As horror films mostly remained in black and white throughout most of the 1940s, this film is in glorious technicolor, with sweeping sets, a diminished disfigurement on Rains, and a generally more romantic feel than many horror films at the time. Public acclaim was now with films such as Gone With The Wind, and that's the style it emulates. The final Broadway performance, will be its 13,925th show.This film, starring Claude Rains, has less in common with the other Universal horror films and more with the glamorous period spectacles of the 1940s and 50s. “Yet “Phanton” has surpassed that show’s extraordinary Broadway run.”Īfter “considerable discussion” that involved Mackintosh, Lloyd Webber, the Shubert Organization, and producers The Really Useful Group, “we concluded that the right time for “Phantom” was after the show’s 35th birthday.” “Indeed, my production of Andrew ‘Cats’ proudly declared for decades ‘Now and Forever,’” he added. “As a producer, you dream that a show will run forever,” Mackintosh said Friday. Shortly before the COVID-induced lockdown, the show was averaging about $1 million per week.
Last week, the show’s box office hit just over $865,000, filling 81% of its seats. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, which was devastating for the entire theater industry, proved to be too much for the dramatic love story. As of September, it had been seen by 19.5 million people in nearly 14,000 performances, grossing $1.3 billion since it opened, according to numbers compiled by The Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway industry.
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