This coming Sunday, The Phantom of the Opera celebrates the 25th birthday of its official opening in the West End at Her Majesty's on October 9, 1986, but over the weekend it jumped the gun by a week with a special, three-performance only new staging at the Royal Albert Hall. Last night's performance was also broadcast to cinemas around the UK and the world - a friend even texted from the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York…
SOURCE: The Stage at 02:31AM on October 3, 2011