{"id":21202,"date":"2025-06-28T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21202\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:16:10","slug":"phantom-of-the-opera-plans-new-york-return-in-immersive-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21202\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Phantom of the Opera&#8217; Plans New York Return in Immersive Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Phantom of the Opera is returning to New York in an immersive production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe show, entitled Masquerade, has been teasing its debut for weeks (including having The Phantom walk the red carpet at the Tony Awards) but has now confirmed the show will be led by Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus and released full casting, which includes former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway_1\" data-tag=\"broadway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadway<\/a> Phantom Hugh Panaro and Kaley Ann Voorhees, a former Christine. The show has set a six-week run of dates, which it calls its \u201cinitial celebration,\u201d starting July 31 at a commercial building in midtown Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe show is based on the original musical The Phantom of the Opera, which features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and book by Stilgoe and Webber.\u00a0The production is presented by arrangement with Webber\u2019s The Really Useful Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDetails about the exact nature of the show are sparse but the production describes the experience saying: \u201cFrom the highest rooftop to the subterranean lair deep below the Opera Populaire, guests will be invited to experience the music of the night more intimately than ever before.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAttendees are also required to wear a mask during the show and wear black, white or silver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe immersive production comes after the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera played its last performance at the Majestic Theatre in April 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/phantom-of-the-opera-to-close-on-broadway-in-february-1235222513\/#:~:text=More%20Stories%20by%20Caitlin&amp;text=The%20Phantom%20of%20the%20Opera,Majestic%20Theatre%20since%20January%201988.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after a 35-year<\/a> run on Broadway. At the time, Lloyd Webber hinted that Phantom would return to New York.\u00a0The London production is still running. Webber was also represented on Broadway this season with the revival of his musical Sunset Blvd., starring Nicole Scherzinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phantom of the Opera is returning to New York in an immersive production.\u00a0 The show, entitled Masquerade,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,19607,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1148,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-21202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-broadway","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-theater","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114759767525651187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}