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The actor, Emilie Kouatchou, would make her Broadway debut as an alternate for Picerno.ДЇor the returning cast, there were tweaks to lyrics and staging to learn, making it more straightforward to cast non-white actors in principal roles. In August, вЂњPhantomвЂќ producers announced they had cast the first-ever Black actor to play Christine since the show opened on Broadway in 1988. streets last year in outrage at the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer, newly unemployed Broadway workers pushed the industry to make overdue changes to increase racial diversity in theater companies. Within a few weeks of the show going dark, COVID-19 had claimed the life of a beloved dresser, Jennifer Arnold, who had been with the show for more than three decades.ДЄfter protests filled U.S. Reuters watched as the вЂњPhantomвЂќ company prepared for its return. Their return this fall is viewed as a test of the cityвЂ™s efforts to restore some new sense of normalcy. Now, after an unprecedented shutdown, the theaters are among the last workplaces to reopen. Word of the abrupt shuttering came during a вЂњPhantomвЂќ matinee at the Majestic Theatre on March 12, 2020, as some cast and crew themselves were falling sick. The crowded Broadway theaters, vital to the cityвЂ™s tourism industry, were the first places closed by the New York government as the coronavirus began to ravage the state. вЂњHopefully, none of us have it, because if one of us have it, we all have it,вЂќ she said. Playing the showвЂ™s heroine Christine required Picerno to kiss two co-stars daily and to sing full-throated love songs with them unmasked and at close range. She knew her job came with risks of exposure. вЂњIвЂ™m a full-on monk now,вЂќ she said during a rushed lunch break between back-to-back run throughs. Outside long days in a chilly mirror-lined rehearsal studio near New York CityвЂ™s Times Square, Picerno had put herself back on what she called lockdown. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Meghan Picerno was back at work after 18 months of pandemic limbo, overjoyed to be singing and dancing again with her вЂњPhantom of the OperaвЂќ castmates as they rehearsed for the return of BroadwayвЂ™s longest-running show.ДЄs the musicalвЂ™s late October reopening neared, sometimes all Picerno could think about was making it to the first curtain call unscathed by the breakthrough COVID-19 cases that had sidelined vaccinated actors at other shows.

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Now in its 30th record-breaking year, The Phantom of the Opera continues to captivate audiences at Her MajestyвЂ™s Theatre in LondonвЂ™s West End, after more than 11,000 performances.ДЄndrew Lloyd WebberвЂ™s mesmerizing score along with jaw-dropping scenery and breathtaking special effects, magically combine to bring this tragic love story to life each night.Actors rehearse a scene on their first full day of rehearsals at the Majestic Theater during preparations to reopen 'Phantom of the Opera' in New York, U.S., October 13, 2021. The musical opened at Her MajestyвЂ™s Theatre on 9 October 1986 with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman in the leading roles, and there have been dozens of productions worldwide since then. Shamed by his physical appearance and feared by all, the love he holds for his beautiful protГ©gГ©e Christine DaaГ© is so strong that even her heart cannot resist. Presenting The Phantom of the Opera, the smash hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber!Д®xperience the power of the phantom with your nearest performance:ДЇar beneath the majesty and splendour of the Paris Opera House, hides the Phantom in a shadowy existence.

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