Phantom of the Opera STILL RUNNING?

How on earth is this possible? After all these years?

How can a show stay open for that long?? Wouldn't people get tired of it?? Why can't they open something new?? They should make a policy to close old shows, like in supermarkets, where things pass their use-by-dates. Then again, if there was a lot more new talent in Broadway to replace (even though it's everywhere BUT Broadway, which has never concerned producers lol) it might be a good idea. Who else feels, like I do, that there will be a huge boom in the musical theatre in twenty years time? There will be a renaissance... Someone will rise up, like Lloyd Webber, and it'll start all over again

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Nah, the film will only make people want to see the show even more. Sales will boost. It will be #1.

I don't think "expiration dates" are a good idea. If a show is that good, let it stay open. All the designers of the show put good work into it, and they deserve what get.

"You put into it what you get out of it."

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The only reason expiration dates are a good idea is because a show is allowed to get tired and be performed in such a subpar way that it is no match on how it should be and the show should be put out of its misery (Rent, for example). If you keep a show running for x amount of years, it should be the same quality now as it was on opening night.

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But the longest performed show, non-consecutavely is PETER PAN.

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If Cats ran longer. POTO can at least equal that mark...

Yes, and AIDA.

Perhaps they should form a committee that would boot shows, IF AND ONLY IF:

1) The Theatre is desired for another show;

*AND*

2) The show lacks in performance since it's first casting change;

*AND*

3) The show has played at least one year;

4) The show receives less than 75% of its seating capacity.

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"If you add up all of the performances of the original Broadway production and the five Broadway revivals combined, you come up with 847 performances (the equivalent of about a two year run altogether). Are you somehow adding up every single bus-and-truck production, community theatre run and high school performance to come up with that statement? Even if you are, there are several shows that have more total performances (Broadway, road and amateur combined) than "Peter Pan.""

Actually, you get 1,768 for Broadway, but this includes the play as well, which I always include when referencing to PETER PAN in general (not the Leigh/Charlap musical version). But I didn't make this clear, and I only stated that as a joke.

Cheers to PETER PAN - 100 Years and counting...

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Mister Matt,

I wasn't going to say it.

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If people are still going and the show's still making money and people are still enjoying it why should it close?

I'm speechless.

I also say that if a show is doing well, let it stay open. And I have read that the Phantom production is still well worth seeing. I hope it stays open, I saw it a year after it opened on a bad day and really want to see it again.

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Everytime I go to that site, my jaw drops and I can spend hours just mesmerized by it. I can't believe he's 50 now.

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Not just good causes. Take a closer look at the captions for his fashion pictures. It quite obviously is also a fetish for him.

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"How can a show stay open for that long??"

Popularity, Box-Office sales, perhaps?

"Wouldn't people get tired of it??"

Apparently not. Good word of mouth goes along way. No matter what anyone else thinks of the show.

"Why can't they open something new??"

Hundreds of new shows have opened (and closed) since Phantom made it's debut. The producers aren't stupid. Why close something that's a consistent money maker and a crowd-pleaser.
No one's that stupid."