The accent was tough, but i thought it cute how they had a section in the program explaining what certain words meant and how they are pronounced, that kind of helped a little. but i found the accent thicker in the show than the movie, but that may be due to it being live, and sitting in the back of the top balcony, so sometimes it was hard to even understand the regular english
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre