The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. It is the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February 2012, the first production ever to do so. It is the second longest-running West End musical, after "Les Misérables", and the third longest-running West End show overall, after "The Mousetrap". With total estimated worldwide gross receipts of over $5.6 billion and total Broadway gross of $845 million, "Phantom" was the most
The Phantom Express (1925) which may also have been influenced although uncredited by the original play. The Phantom Express The Phantom Express is a 1932 American mystery crime-thriller film directed by Emory Johnson. When a phantom train starts derailing rolling stock and threatens a railway company's value, the playboy son of the owner must find out what is happening before the company is sold. The main theme of the plot bears close similarity to "The Ghost Train (play)", a movie version of which was produced in England in the previous year, viz. "The Ghost Train", but that source is not acknowledged in the