Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera premiered at Her Majesty’s Theatre on October 9, 1986, and nothing in musical theatre has ever been quite the same since.

For most people, it is simply the greatest musical ever written. 

For me, it is the story of my life.

Twenty-five years ago, at just five years old, my mother took me to Broadway. 

I still remember the way the darkness of the Majestic Theatre swallowed us whole, the low rumble of the orchestra, and then that first, impossible crash of the........

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