‘Phantom of the Opera’ Closes in West End After 34 Years Due to Coronavirus Impact
Naman Ramachandran “The Phantom of the Opera” is the latest victim of the coronavirus pandemic. After a 34-year run at Her Majesty’s Theater in London’s West End theater district, Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical won’t be raising its curtains again.In a column in the U.K.’s Evening Standard newspaper, leading theater producer Cameron Mackintosh wrote: “Andrew and I have had to sadly permanently shut down our London and U.K.