Acclaimed Musical Shows Around the Globe
Posted in Entertainment Events on April 30th, 2010Musical shows have been the backbone of entertainment in the worlds biggest cities for ages. Infact, some musical shows have been running for over 15 years and still going strong. With the popularity of this sort of entertainment, we will chat about the biggest earning and longest running theatre productions in the globe.
The heavy weight musical that has to be discussed is Phantom, one of the most fantastic shows to ever be launched. This fantastic show is the longest running theatre show in theatre history and the most earning of all time. The musical production was created for the theatre stage by Andrew Lloyd Webber and tells the tale of a scarred male who falls in love with a chorus singer. The outstanding songs of the musical show are now famous and the mask worn by the Phantom of the Opera is so unmistakable that it’s evident in various fancy dress parties around the world. Find Dirty Dancing Tickets online and love hearing “nobody puts Baby in the corner”.
Up next is the phenomenal musical known as Cats. Again another well known theatre show and one that ran roughly 18 years until its last curtain call in late 2000. Cats won both the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony award for greatest musical production and was performed in both London’s glittering West End and Broadway New York. The theatre show was so successful that it was translated into 18 separate languages and eventually shown all over the world. Cats the musical show was a real groundbreaker.
Now it is time for the most well known play with a French show name of all time, Les Miserables or changed into English as The Miserables or The Terribles. The theatre musical has been showing in London’s glittering West End for more than 16 years now and is the second longest ever running theatre production in London’s entertainment history. One of the most recognized songs from the musical production is I Dreamed a Dream, which was also sung by Britains Got Talent runner up Susan Boyle. The musical Cats was up for 12 Tony awards and won eight of them, including best musical show.