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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Mark Kennedy | AP Entertainment Writer

‘Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway next year

A poster advertising “The Phantom of the Opera,” is displayed on the pandemic-shuttered Majestic Theatre in New York in 2020. Broadway’s longest-running show will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb. 18, 2023, less than a month after its 35th anniversary. (AP)

NEW YORK — “The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York.

The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb. 18, a spokesperson told The Associated Press on Friday. The closing will come less than a month after its 35th anniversary. It will conclude with an eye-popping 13,925 performances.

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