The 25th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera will be marked by special performances at the Royal Albert Hall this October.
The show’s original choreographer, Gillian Lyne, has been recruited to help stage the anniversary production and Really Useful Group and Cameron Mackintosh Ltd are to produce. Details of the new production remain scant, but sources speaking to The Stage have claimed that it’ll be a “completely new production”.
As suspected, Ramin Karimloo will play The Phantom and it is widely thought that the role of Christine Daae will be reprised by Sierra Boggess. Boggess first played Christine in the Las Vegas production in 2006 and also took on the role for Love Never Dies, in which she starred alongside Karimloo until March 2011.
Speaking to The Stage about the upcoming anniversary performances, Karimloo said: ?It?s going to be great and I will treat it like the Les Mis anniversary concerts, which I recently appeared in and where, because it was performing a part I had played before, I could tap into the work I had done prior. But I will also use it as a chance to try something new. More importantly, though, it?s a celebratory performance. We?re there not for us, but to celebrate the product and why we all love it.?
Also speaking to The Stage, Lighting Designer Patrick Woodroffe explained how much of a challenge the new production would be for the creative team, saying: “Our version will be a take on the old one, but designed specifically for the Albert Hall and created very much with that space in mind. There has been such a welcome from the Phantom camp, particularly from the original lighting designer, Andy Bridge, with whom I am collaborating on this project, that we all feel up to the huge challenge of putting on what is in effect a completely new production of this great musical with only three days? fit up in the Albert Hall.”
Further details are expected during June, keep an eye on Show-and-Stay.co.uk for ticket and hotel packages for the Phantom anniversary production.
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