Played over 6,760 performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, London
Won over 50 major theatre awards including 3 Olivier Awards, the most recent being the 2002 Olivier Audience Award for Most Popular Show; an Evening Standard Award; 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical; 7 Drama Desk Awards and 3 Outer Critic Circle Awards.
Original cast recording was the first in British musical history to enter the charts at number one. Since then it has gone gold and platinum in the UK and US, selling over 2 million copies.
The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string. It is 3 metres wide and weighs one ton. The touring version falls at 2.5 metres per second. The original version was built by 5 people in 4 weeks.
The Phantom's make-up takes 2 hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off. The face is moisturised, closely shaved and the prosthetics are fitted, setting immediately, before 2 wigs, 2 radio mics and 2 contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed.
2,230 metres of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed. The tasselled fringes measure 226 metres. They are made up of 250 kilos of dyed wool interwoven with 5,000 wooden beads imported from India. Each one is handmade and combed through with an Afro comb.
There are 130 cast, crew and orchestra members directly involved in each performance.
Each performance has 230 costumes, 14 dressers, 120 automated cues, 22 scene changes, 281 candles and uses 250 kg of dry ice and 10 fog and smoke machines.
The current US National Tour requires 18 52-foot tractor-trailers to transfer the set between theatres.
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