However, the production was nominated for two Olivier Awards (equivalent of the Broadway Tony Awards) for Best New Musical and Best Director of a Musical, the latter of which placed Ken Hill against Simon Callow and Judi Dench. It opened at The Shaftsbury Theatre on December 18, 1991, with a similar cast to the 1984 production – Peter Straker was The Phantom and Christina Collier as Christine.īut despite positive reviews, the West End production did poorly at the box office and was forced to close earlier than expected, on April 11, 1992. In 1991, Phantom of the Opera returned to the United Kingdom where it embarked on a national tour and then transferred to London West End. who acted as the producers for the tour, along with Electric Factory Concerts. Jonathan Reinis (who later produced Ken Hill The Invisible Man in London) formed Phantom Touring Company Inc. Louis and San Francisco were so successful that Hill was asked to mount a national tour of the United States. The productions of Phantom of the Opera in St. A second US production was mounted in 1988 in San Francisco at the Theatre in the Square, produced by Jonathan Reinis. This production starred Sal Mistretta as The Phantom – his performance won him the St. Phantom of the Opera then emerged on the other side of the Atlantic in 1987 for its American premiere in St. Hill wrote the original English lyrics to the music of Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Mozart, Weber, Donizetti, and Boito. It is the first musical adaptation of the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, about the hideously disfigured Phantom’s amorous obsession with the magnificent, naive singer, Christine.
Phantom of the Opera is a 1976 musical with book and lyrics by Ken Hill.
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