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The music of the evening will proceed for eight weeks longer than anticipated.
The Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera” introduced in September that it will 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 exceptional response there was to the present ending,” Waterproof coat advised the Instances. “We’ve bought out nearly the whole lot that we’ve got on sale.”
The musical will have a good time its thirty fifth anniversary in January.
With music by famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Phantom” contains a masked music lover who haunts the Paris Opera Home.
The Broadway present is directed by Hal Prince. In 1988, the present gained seven Tony Awards.