Richard Stilgoe News

Clocking in over 1400 performances in the longest running musical in Broadway history, Phantom, Howard McGillin talks candidly about his career, performing in the record breaking performance and more while getting made up - plus catch brand new footage of the current cast of The Phantom of the Opera!

A nation-wide search has delivered a cast handpicked by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hal Prince and rich in Broadway experience for Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular, which begins preview performances in June at The Venetian Resort • Hotel • Casino in Las Vegas.

A new staging of Carnival, as well as touring productions of The Light in the Piazza, The Phantom of the Opera, Carnival and Twelve Angry Men will be among the highlights of the Kennedy Center's 2006-2007 season

The Phantom of the Opera will celebrate another record when it turns eighteen on January 26th

The Phantom of the Opera will be profiled on the January 29th edition of A&E's 'Breakfast with the Arts'

A 90-minute production of The Phantom of the Opera will open in Las Vegas this spring

On January 9th, The Phantom of the Opera will break the record and become Broadway's longest-running show

Plans are still under wraps for just how the show will celebrate it's longevity, but original star Michael Crawford's web site reports that he will take part in the celebration.

The soundtrack of the film version of The Phantom of the Opera has ranked as #2 on Billboard's Year End Chart for soundtracks

Tickets to the record-breaking performance on January 9th will be given away to 100 of the Phantom of the Opera fans who can correctly answer five trivia questions about the show.

Readers of the December 2nd edition of The New York Times can enter for a chance to win tickets to the record-breaking January 9th performance of The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera will become the longest-running Broadway musical in history on January 9th, 2006

Beginning Monday, October 3, Howard McGillin, Broadway's longest-running Phantom, will return to the title role in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at The Majestic Theatre.

The musical - now in its 18th year on Broadway at The Majestic Theatre, having given an astonishing 7,325 performances (as of 8/21/2005) - has played to 99.2% capacity audiences this summer and has consistently been among Broadway's highest-grossing shows.

An eBay auction will celebrate the DVD release of the Phantom of the Opera film by the selling of over a hundred items