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Long-time veterans of Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables headlined a star-studded Benefit Evening, MASQUERADE: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S GREATEST HITS, on Saturday, April 18, at the Bickford Theatre, 6 Normandy Heights Road, in Morristown, NJ.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's international award-winning musical, The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, returns to Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre May 13-June 7, 2009. Winner of seven 1988 Tony Awards including Best Musical, this captivating production is the longest-running show in Broadway history. Hennepin Theatre Trust welcomes the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of The Phantom of the Opera as a special addition to its 2008/09 M&I Bank Broadway Across America-Minneapolis season

Tony Award-nominated actor and theatre veteran, Colm Wilkinson stars on the SHOWTIME mini-series 'The Tudors' as Lord Thomas Darcy on April 12th at 9PM (EST).

The sorry story of Livent came to a close in a Toronto courtroom today as Ontario Superior Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto delivered her judgment. 'The creative success that you achieved due to your company was spectacular,' said Benotto. But her tone quickly changed as she cited a 'deliberate misrepresentation' in Livent's public offering and 'widespread and long-standing' fraud thereafter. 'I have been satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that you knew what was happening . . . That's a guilty verdict.'

Ryan Silverman, who previously starred as 'Raoul' in the Las Vegas production, will take over the role on Broadway starting Friday evening, April 24. He succeeds current and long-time star Tim Martin Gleason, whose final performance will be Thursday evening, April 23.

The most successful stage musical of all time, the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince, reached an unprecedented milestone on Monday, January 26, 2009 when it celebrated its Twenty-First Anniversary on Broadway. On that date, playing its 8,732nd performance at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street), it became the first Broadway production ever to have run 21 years. The cast and crew celebrated with a custom-designed cake from Cupcake Cafe in honor of finally being of 'legal' age on Broadway!

The most successful stage musical of all time, the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber?s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince, will reach an unprecedented milestone when it celebrates its Twenty-First Anniversary on Broadway on Monday, January 26, 2009. On that date, playing its 8,732nd performance at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street), it will become the first Broadway production ever to have run 21 years. The longest-running show in Broadway history (a feat it achieved in January 2006 when it surpassed the run of Cats), the musical is the winner of 7 1988 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Since its Broadway debut on January 26, 1988, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has grossed $715 million, making it the highest-grossing show in Broadway history. Total New York attendance is at 13 million. Having since surpassed Cats? record by a phenomenal 3 years and 1,200 performances, it has now played over 8,700 performances ? the only show in Broadway history to do so ? and all with no end in sight. As a major vote of confidence in the future of the Broadway production, last August the producers took the extraordinary step of installing a brand-new Digital Sound System (at an investment of $750,000) to bring the production?s sound design technology into the 21s Century. The move followed last May?s successful installation of the same new Digital Sound System into the London production.

The Tony Award-winning psychological thriller, Sleuth, starring Mark Jacoby from the originals; The Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel and Ragtime as well as revivals of Sweet Charity, Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd, will be onstage December 2 - 14, 2008 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Director, Peter Flynn, returns to the Theatre where he won the prestigious 2008 Carbonell Award for 'Best Director' of Man of La Mancha.

The Tony Award-winning psychological thriller, Sleuth, starring Mark Jacoby from the originals; The Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel and Ragtime as well as revivals of Sweet Charity, Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd, will be onstage December 2 - 14, 2008 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Director, Peter Flynn, returns to the Theatre where he won the prestigious 2008 Carbonell Award for 'Best Director' of Man of La Mancha.

This August, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh will take the extraordinary step of closing down THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the longest-running show in Broadway history, for four performances to install a brand-new Digital Sound System to bring the production's sound design technology into the 21st Century. The producers are investing an estimated $750,000 into installing the state-of-the-art system. Now in its phenomenal 21st Year at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street), the record-breaking production, directed by Harold Prince, continues to play with no end in sight.

A new leading lady has been announced for the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the longest-running show in Broadway history. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc. and directed by Harold Prince, the musical is in its phenomenal 21st year in New York, playing at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street).

A new leading lady has been announced for the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the longest-running show in Broadway history. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc. and directed by Harold Prince, the musical is in its phenomenal 21st year in New York, playing at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street).

The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is set to reach another unprecedented milestone.

The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is set to reach another unprecedented milestone.

Friday, August 10th, The After Party at the Laurie Beechman Theatre welcomed Anne Runolfsson.

Broadway In Chicago has announced the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, will return to Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre this fall for a limited ten-week holiday engagement running Wednesday, October 31 through Saturday, January 5, 2008

The casts of dozens of Broadway shows took part in the annual concert 'Stars in the Alley,' which was held in Shubert Alley on June 6th, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the event!

Andrew Lloyd Webber will once again collaborate with David Zippel on his follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera

Andrew Lloyd Webber is interested in Sarah Brightman's possibly reprising her role as Christine in his previously announced follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera

Beginning Monday, April 30, Gary Mauer will step into the title role of The Phantom of the Opera- the longest-running show in Broadway history - for three weeks at The Majestic Theatre

This week's Time Out Magazine features dual-covers to celebrate the mag's Spring Theater Preview Issue.

New York City Center Encores! continues its 2007 season with the first full-scale restoration of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's 1932 musical, Face the Music.

Lee Wilkof, Judy Kaye, Jeffry Denman, Walter Bobbie and Meredith Patterson recently took part in a press rehearsal for the upcoming Encores! presentation of Irving Berlin's Face the Music

New York City Center Encores! will continue its 2007 season with the first full-scale restoration of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's 1932 musical, Face the Music, starring Judy Kaye, Walter Bobbie and Lee Wilkof

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Tony Award-winning composer and impresario, has confirmed that he will indeed be going ahead with a previously announced sequel to his blockbuster hit The Phantom of the Opera.