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Opening Nights

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Russell Davies continues a new series looking at the stories behind the opening nights of well-known musicals 2: The Phantom of the Opera. The long-running musical premiered in London in 1986 with Michael Crawford as the phantom and Sarah Brightman as Christine. It is still in production today and gave Andrew Lloyd Webberthe distinction of being the first composerto have three musicals running simultaneously in London and New York. Producer Neil George

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