Go behind the scenes of Broadway’s longest running show The Phantom of the Opera as Laird Mackintosh (who plays Opera manager “Monsieur Andre” and understudies “The Phantom”) shares with us 5 secrets about the show what most audience members do not even know.
FUN FACT: New York Broadway Tours’ creator and head tour guide Amada Anderson is friends with Lynne Abeles Darwish who currently appears in the Ensemble every night but also serves as the understudy for the show’s PRIMA DONNA herself “Carlotta”. Check out Amada interviewing her in the comment section below this post.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will be celebrating it’s history making 30th Anniversary of haunting audiences at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre this January. This is the only show ever in Broadway history to have made it to 30 years and still running to packed houses every night. It also continues to haunt audiences in London’s West End, on Tour across America, and around the world.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA’s Laird Mackintosh shares five secrets about the long-running Broadway fave!
DID YOU KNOW: The song THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s longest running acclaimed musical The Phantom of the Opera was originally entitled MARRIED MAN. Webber wrote it originally for Sarah Brightman when they first met and were married at the time. Most of Webber’s songs we all know today were all recycled from songs he just wrote for fun. When he started working on the score for PHANTOM, he used that one song that would be sung by the title character to the role of “Christine Daae” (which Brightman also originated).
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman were married in 1984 till they split in 1990. Today, they are still close friends. They first reunited in Public since their divorce in 1997 when Brightman filmed her first major PBS concert from the Royal Albert Hall on her Timeless Tour and then Webber 50th Birthday concert there. They also reunited numerous times at Phantom’s big birthday milestones.
Since it stupidly got deleted 😉 Enjoy this lovely performance of the original Music of the Night.
