Report: The Phantom of the Opera May Be Readying an Off-Broadway Return — Page 5

“Why do people like you basically get to tell other people to shut up, while simultaneously shoving your personal opinions down those same people's throats? Simple. You don't, so just let it go.“

You clearly love Phantom in a certain way. Others don’t. I’m saying this with actual love as a theater fan, but it will never come back in the way you have it in your head. Let other people find it in a new way. Include them in your fandom.

TheatreMonkey said: "martinsmithfan said: "HogansHero said: "I also have heard (third hand, so take it as you will) that there is at least one major piece of information about this undertaking that has not been announced and, if true, will eclipse all of the gripes that have been voiced by some in this thread."

I know you probably can’t but I’m insanely curious if there’s any insight you can give about what this may be. With the rumored price tag I wouldn’t mind hearing a reason that’ll turn me off to spending $200 on this lol."

The "Chandelier Drop" will actually be a drop-tower ride, in the area where it's open to the floors below on the plans. You'll actuallyridethe chandelier down. You heard it here first!"

You joke, but imagine how camp it would be if this Phantom was an indoor theme park ala Area 15 in Vegas. Get a birds eye view of the catwalk before crashing down on the performance on the Chandelier Drop Tower. Feel the flames in your face as you ride the Grotesque Gondola to the Phantom's Layer. Dance to the music of the night playing from the world largest pipe organ. Explore the blacklight maze of backstage spaces to find your guiding ghost light in this never-before-seen Phantom of the Opera.

Anything new to report on this project?
Will it still be opening in the coming weeks

This is probably old news, but I was searching for Phantom tours and found a page on the official site that says there will be a new North American touring production starting in November 2025 in Baltimore. It will be based on the "Brilliant Original" as stated on the site. It says the production will be like the one that reopened in London in 2021. I've seen videos of the reopened London production and was expecting for the show to be very scaled down and nothing like the original but I was pleasantly surprised at just how faithful it is to the original. It hardly looks too scaled down to me. I don't quite like the new chandelier though, it's taller and round and it isn't flexible like the oval-shaped original which I think made the large lamp look more "alive." The new London chandelier looks like a gaudy broach your grandma would wear and it goes straight up and nothing on it moves giving it a sense of blah. Just swoooosh up ya go, you flat affect, no-personality overgrown lighting fixture.

But the current London version is pretty nifty. If this is what we're getting with the new 2025 North American tour then that will be awesome. Nothing beats the original production. Every other attempt at staging feels forced or just BLAH and they are almost always cheesy af. Not that the original production wasn't cheesy but it did tone down the cheese factor as much as humanly possible, keeping focus on the story. I've always hated the ending. I have never felt anything for most of the characters. OK, who am I kidding? Nobody goes to Phantom for the story. It's all about those sets!

That chandelier rising to the auditorium ceiling brought many thrills and was worth the price of admission alone!

Updated On: 2/2/25 at 04:44 AM

Rickr3 said: "Not that the original production wasn't cheesy but it did tone down the cheese factor as much as humanly possible, keeping focus on the story....Nobody goes to Phantom for the story. It's all about those sets!"

Why do people like you feel compelled to make ludicrous, sweeping generalization like this, as if you've spent decades performing scientific research on the subject?

Rickr3 said: "This is probably old news,



Yes it is; the new North American tour was announced months ago, and the new London production that it's based on has been running since 2021, and we have debated, discussed, clarified, and argued over the changes made to the London show endlessly, repeatedly, and ad nauseum on this board in multiple threads multiple times.

And there is nothing remotely cheesy about the Harold Prince/Maria Bjornson original masterpiece at the Majestic Theater.

Slightly off topic but one thing I noticed seeing Gypsy yesterday is the new Majestic has much better legroom than the Phantom era

Any update on this? I feel like we're getting little teases but no closer to a real announcement.

New email teaser

It also appears to be officially titled Masquerade, not just a pseudonym, based on the latest update to their website.

aces25 said: "Do we have a timeline of when this will be officially announced??"

Not that I've seen. There has been very little official communication about this production.

I know of four people who went in for Raoul about two weeks ago. So not to repeat the obvious - an announcement is nearing as they wrap up the casting process