The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) the screen. In the "Behind the Mask" documentary, Richard Stilgoe described the video as "wonderful, as over-the-top as you can get". Cameron Mackinstosh said: "Ken Russell came up with the most brilliant, outrageous video. It's fantastic fun, and completely over-the-top, which of course Andrew and I loved." The British guitarist Hank Marvin did an instrumental version of the song on his 1997 album "Hank Plays the Music of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber". The song "The Phantom of the Opera" was covered in 1998 by Charlotte Church and Peter Karrie. It was covered in 2002 by the Finnish symphonic
Andrew Lloyd Webber opened at the Palace Theatre in London. It ran for 19 months and 500 performances. A revised production opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on 17 November 2005. Garnering mixed reviews from critics, due in part to the frequent absences of the show's star Maria Friedman due to breast cancer treatment, it closed only a brief three months later on 19 February 2006. Lloyd Webber produced a staging of "The Sound of Music", which débuted November 2006. He made the controversial decision to choose an unknown to play leading lady Maria, who was found through the BBC's reality television