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However, there are several theories about who or what inspired Leroux to create this enigmatic figure. But when I was a full-grown adult living in NYC and saw it on Broadway for the first time, the magic all came back. If you’re a fan of the Phantom of the Opera, you’ve probably wondered about the meaning of the monkey music box. It was choreographed by Gillian Lynne and the sets were designed by Maria Björnson, with lighting by Andrew Bridge. At the beginning of the story anyway, if the 25th anniversary edition would be based, some of the participants in the auction were shown shaking their heads suggesting that they are not willing to spend more on a music box like the one up for sale.

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A Hamburg revival production ran in reduced staging and orchestration from 28 November 2013 to 30 September 2015 at the Theater Neue Flora and was later transferred to the Metronom Theater in Oberhausen where it was performed from 17 November 2015 to 4 September 2016. And I’m seeing some of you already questioning…yes, I could get one at the office, but it wouldn’t have the special sticker on it!

Malta: The Maltese concert premiere was in October 2017 produced by Grapevine Music in English as a non-replica with special arrangement with Really Useful Group.

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Talaura: Mackintosh saluted all three during his curtain speech, with photos of them projected behind. Laird Mackintosh played the Phantom during the April 14 and 15 evening performances and for the final performance on April 16, becoming the last person to play the title role in the original Broadway production. The Canadian International Touring Company toured the musical in Canada, Hawaii, Alaska, Hong Kong, and Singapore from 11 March 1991 to October 1995. The fact that he is able to make her sing so beautifully with just this music box could be seen as a way of showing how complete his control over her is.The props team turns it on and off via remote control; that’s what starts the arms to open and close as if the monkey is clapping his cymbals. Read on, as our two Playbill staffers reflect on that final performance (total Phantomperformances:13,981). In July 2020, social media outlets posted photographs of the sets, props, and costumes being loaded out from Her Majesty's Theatre.

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citation needed] Performances of this latest 2020 tour were suspended from 16 March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 15 April 2021, Mackintosh confirmed that the original staging would not be reinstated at Her Majesty's Theatre and that the designs of Maria Björnson, direction of Hal Prince, and choreography of Gillian Lynne would be "reimagined by a new team". A US national tour commenced in 1992 in Seattle and closed on 31 October 2010 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, after nearly two decades.

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She reluctantly explains that the Phantom is a brilliant scholar, magician, architect, inventor, and composer, who was born with a deformed face. In the ensuing chaos, Christine escapes with Raoul to the rooftop and tells him about her subterranean encounter with the Phantom ("Why Have You Brought Me Here? In 2021, LloydWebber donated a monkey from the West End production to an auction benefitting the Actors Fund. He managed to dominate all of the crazy inner welds, work with the special mechanism in the neck that made it sway back and forth and get the new box (same music) installed.In March 2011 Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois, became the first school to perform The Phantom of the Opera under the new rights. It was during the construction of this building that workers found a strange music box in the foundation. American album certifications – Andrew Lloyd Webber – Highlights from Phantom of the Opera _Loncon Cast_".