Phantom is currently the longest running show in Broadway history, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February 2012, the number one production ever to make-up so. A film adaptation directed by Joel Schumacher was released in 2004. It won the 1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, with Crawford winning the Olivier and Tony for Best Actor in a Musical. The musical opened in London's West End in 1986 and on Broadway in New York in 1988, in a production directed by Harold Prince and starring English classical soprano Sarah Brightman Lloyd Webber's then-wife as Christine Daaé, and Michael Crawford as the Phantom. Based on the 1910 French novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux, it tells the story of a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, masked musical genius well in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House. The Phantom of a Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, & a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe.

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