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 (play) moon will never bring him back to life. The Phantom is published under Samuel French's Standard Drama, No. 165 (New York, 1856.) This play moved Boucicault into writing plays that were technically demanding. "The Phantom" is an adaption of "Le Vampire", by Pierre Carmouche, Achile de Jouffroy, and Charles Nodier, which was published in Paris in 1820. Boucicault first titled the play "The Vampire: a Phantasm Related in Three Dramas", then shortened and renamed. The role of the Alan Raby/Phantom was written for Charles Kean, but he declined so it was played by Boucucault himself. After it was published in