Offered under the theme of “The Shows Must Go On!” (also name of the YouTube channel), the initiative aims to bring culture to audiences confined to their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic, and posts a number of hours of music every Friday
The performance which was recorded in 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall was posted on YouTube as a collaboration between the composer’s Really Useful Group and Universal aiming to offer free broadcasts of Lloyd Webber’s musicals. For the audience, seeing The Phantom of the Opera is a unique experience, especially when the performance brings together remarkable artists.Īnd so, on 15 April, the news that Andrew Lloyd Webber would release a complete recorded performance for free online spread like wildfire. Those and many other factors make this an extremely important show, and make staging it a huge responsibility. It premiered in London’d West End in 1986, and with its captivating story and the abilities that enabled the composer to give us such works as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Cats, it won seven Tony awards among many others, and became the longest running show in Broadway history, reaching 10,000 Broadway performances in February 2012.
Among world musical’s gems is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, the musical with lyrics by Charles Hart.
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