Refuse me, and you send your lover to hisĬHRISTINE (looking at the PHANTOM but to herself) Raise up your hand to the level of your eyes! The end of the rope, of which the PHANTOM has let go, remains magically suspended in mid-air) (So saying, he takes the Punjab lasso and, before RAOUL has a chance to move, catches him by the neck. RAOUL (pleading, grasping the bars of the gate) Behind the portcullis, RAOUL climbs out of the water) (The PHANTOM suddenly senses RAOUL'S presence. She looks calmly and coldly into his face) (He lakes the bridal veil front the dummy, and moves slowIy towards her) Braving her terror, she addresses him fiercely). She frees herself and backs away as he stares blackly out front. The PHANTOM drags CHRISTINE roughly out of the boat. “It’s the end of an era, really.” Productions of “Phantom” have sold 145 million tickets in 183 cities around the world, for a worldwide gross of nearly $7 billion.(The dummy of CHRlSTlNE sits crumpled on a large throne. “What is sad to me is that, with the escalating costs-we have the largest orchestra on Broadway, 40 people in the cast-it’s becoming almost impossible to do a show like ‘Phantom’ anymore,” said the show’s composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, in an interview. Ticket sales have gone up since the closing announcement, but January, February and March can be bleak months on Broadway. Weekly grosses in August and September hovered around the break-even point, according to figures published by. Tourism has not returned as fast as theater producers had hoped, and “Phantom,” as much of a tourist attraction as the Empire State Building, has taken a hit. It’s a victim of Broadway’s rising costs and soft market as New York City struggles to recover from Covid-19. Last month, the producers of “The Phantom of the Opera” announced that after 35 years on Broadway, the show will play its final performance on Feb.
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