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"Gaston Leroux's opera ghost may be disappearing for now, but there is no doubt that Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece will continue to enchant audiences in London and around the world - and one day will return to Broadway," Mackintosh said. The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway ’s longest running show, will close in February following its 35th anniversary in January, producers have announced. He praised everyone who has been involved with the show over the course of the three-plus decades. "Our gratitude to American audiences falling in love with 'The Phantom' is infinite." "That this legendary show has thrilled New York for nearly 35 phenomenal years is quite astounding to me," Mackintosh said in a statement. Once the curtain comes down on "Phantom" for the last time, the title of Broadway's longest-running show will shift to "Chicago," which started in 1996.Ĭameron Mackintosh, the show's producer, said that he, the theater owner The Shubert Organization, and Webber himself decided close the show after "considerable discussion." The Broadway production has played more than 13,500 performances to 19 million people at The Majestic Theatre. Since the mid-1980s, more than 145 million people in 183 cities have seen the show performed in 17 languages.

Other international productions are also expected to move forward. The flagship London production, which debuted in 1986, will keep going "with no end in sight," according to a spokesperson for the show.