Cameron Mackintosh's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running West End musical, celebrating its 40th anniversary.
The Phantom of the Opera is playing at His Majesty's Theatre on Friday 11 December, part of a run that's been going since the show first opened there in October 1986. That makes it the longest-running musical in West End history, and it's still playing to a London audience nearly forty years on.
It's Cameron Mackintosh's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, and since those first performances in the mid-eighties it's become a global thing: 160 million people across 219 cities, 54 territories and 23 languages. The score is the part most people recognise, with The Music of the Night, All I Ask of You, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Masquerade and the title song all in there. If you've only ever heard the songs on a record, this is them on stage.
The show is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and there's a new book to mark it: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera: A Behind-the-Mask Look at the Global Phenomenon, published on 27 October 2026 with a foreword by Lloyd Webber himself. It takes you behind the scenes of the production. It's also worth remembering that this version is its own thing, distinct from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel and from the 2004 film starring Gerard Butler.
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Tickets start from £25, with no booking fees, and all prices include a £1.70 restoration levy. That's for the performance on Friday 11 December at His Majesty's Theatre.
