Where Were you in January 1988? — Page 4

The record-making performance of Phantom is in progress as I write this entry. I would love to be on Manhattan tonight.

I was 26 in January, 1988 and in my second year of teaching public school music.

Congratulations to everyone involved in Phantom on Broadway.

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A Tribute To Phantom of the Opera: The Longest Running Musical In Broadway History

In January 1988, I had just turned 8 and still living in an orphanage. Incidentally, that same month my siblings and I were told that we were going to be adopted.

The first time I saw PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, was fairly recently. In 2001, I took my younger brother to see it in Boston. Needless to say, we both enjoyed it very much. Last year, POTO was here again playing at the newly-restored Boston Opera House, but I missed it. I was in California at the time. Don't think I wasn't peeved!

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I had just closed a production of LION IN WINTER (playing Richard) and was preparing my audition for the National Shakespeare Company. I didn't see Phantom until a couple of years later on tour.

9 years old... think i was in the 4th grade or something...