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re: Why is THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA B'ways longest-running musical?

Posted by:	keikekaze 03:38 pm EDT 10/30/15
In reply to:	Why is THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA B'ways longest-running musical? - GrumpyMorningBoy 02:32 pm EDT 10/30/15

I don't think it's anything to do with the show itself. It's just another one of the end-of-the-20th-century musicals that lasted long enough to become a self-sustaining tourist attraction--it's there because visitors go to it and visitors go to it because it's there--like Oh, Calcutta! or Cats. It will be superseded in its turn as longest-running show by something else someday--perhaps Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, or The Book of Mormon.

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