Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of The Phantom of the Opera is one of the most successful pieces of entertainment of all time, produced in any media, and its success is continuing all over the world.
It was estimated that this masterpiece has been seen by more than 140 million people, and the total worldwide gross is now in excess of $6 billion. The show has won over 70 major theater awards including three Olivier Awards, the most recent being the 2002 Oliver Audience Award for Most Popular Show, an Evening Standard Award, seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards and three Outer Critic Circle Awards.
Some technical facts about the original production of The Phantom of the Opera...
The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string. It is three meters wide and weighs one ton. The touring version falls at two and a half meters per second. The original was built by five people in four weeks. Also, the phantom's make-up takes two hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off. The face is moisturized, closely shaved and the prosthetic are fitted, setting immediately, before two wigs, two radio mics and two contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed. Moreover, 2,350 meters of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed. The tasseled fringes measure 226 meters. They are made up of 250 kilos of dyed wool interwoven with 5,000 wooden beads imported from India. Each one is handmade and combed through with an Afro comb. On the other hand, there are 130 cats, crew and orchestra members directly involved in each performance and each performance has 230 costumes, 14 dressers, 120 automated cues, 22 scene changes, 281 candles and uses 25 kilograms of dry ice and 10 fog and smoke machines. All in all, the touring production takes 27 articulated lorries to transfer the set between theaters. (source: http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com/the-show/facts-figures#1dHX9E46tDaDGuDt.97
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