


Les Misérables recently made a virtue of necessity with a summer concert version while their usual home was redecorated, and now, for just 24 hours (UK), Andrew Lloyd Webber has made the fully-staged 25 th Anniversary version of Phantom of the Opera available on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel.īased on Gaston Leroux’s novel, this is the story of Christine Daaé, a chorus girl in the Paris Opera and her relationship with the mysterious Phantom of the Opera whose mysterious – and slightly suspect – gaslighting methodology encourages her voice as well as a devotion to him. Book: Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd WebberĬelebratory, anniversary and concert versions of long-running shows are as much a part of musical theatre history as the West End-based productions they honour, bringing together a fantasy cast of the greatest performers from the past with the fans who adore it.
