Hit the jump to enter the Phantom's lair and find out what’s included on the 25 th Anniversary Celebration box, with a full track listing!Ĭameron Mackintosh had already produced Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals Cats and Song and Dance when the composer approached him about a musical version of Gaston Leroux’s novel, originally serialized in 19. The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Celebration, due on October 3 in the United Kingdom from Really Useful Records, Polydor and Universal U.K., is a 4-CD/1-DVD set chronicling the musical from its conception to its 2010 sequel, Love Never Dies. 4, with A Chorus Line rounding out the Top 5.) So while Phantom has the lead over Chicago on that list, it’s following in the footsteps of that musical as only the second musical to have a comprehensive box set (shall we call it a Super Deluxe Edition, in recent parlance?) dedicated to it. The still-running 1998 revival of Chicago holds No. (The top three spots on that list all belong to British imports of that era, with Cats and Les Miserables still No. Earlier this year, it became the longest-running production in Broadway history. The Phantom of the Opera opened in the West End of London on Octoand on Broadway on January 26, 1988. But despite record-breaking runs, only one still lights The Great White Way today. Well, of course, those musicals haven’t endured solely on the strength of special effects or eye-popping ad campaigns alone. The British Invasion of the 1980s saw the work of American musical theatre legends like Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Cy Coleman and John Kander and Fred Ebb take a seeming back seat to lavish spectaculars imported from London, often with iconic logos and some kind of special effect sure to keep the tourists talking: Cats (a flying tire!), Les Miserables (a turntable!), Miss Saigon (a helicopter!) and of course, The Phantom of the Opera (a crashing chandelier!). This time, they had their sights set on Broadway, traditionally home to one of America’s great indigenous art forms, the musical. Two decades after The Beatles ushered in the first British Invasion, the Brits were back.
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