Yeston knew better than to compete with the guy who had given the world “Cats.” And then an article in Variety brought them to a screeching halt: Andrew Lloyd Webber was going to do his own adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s novel, “Phantom of the Opera.” By the mid-1980s, Tony Award-winning composer Maury Yeston had written the music for “Phantom.” He and his writing partner, Arthur Kopit, had secured Broadway investors. Which is why the other story about the Phantom, the one that digs deeper into the mysterious character’s past, didn’t stand a chance - at least on Broadway.īut that story had a head start.
SANDY - It was a race to Broadway, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” won.įor 31 years, Broadway’s longest-running show has had an uncontested run in the Majestic Theatre, winning seven Tony Awards, playing to 18.5 million people and grossing more than $1.1 billion.
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