The tasselled fringes measure 226 metres.

2,230 metres of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed.The face is moisturised, closely shaved and the prosthetics are fitted, setting immediately, before 2 wigs, 2 radio microphones and 2 contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed. The Phantom’s make-up takes 2 hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off.The original version was built by 5 people in 4 weeks. The touring version falls at 2.5 metres per second. The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string.Technical Facts about the Original Production On 9 January 2006 the New York production overtook Cats to become the longest-running show in Broadway history with its 7,486 th On 7 July 2014 it celebrated its 11,000 th performance on Broadway.The original cast recording was the first in British musical history to enter the charts at number one.Won over 70 major theatre awards including 3 Olivier Awards, an Evening Standard Award, 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical, 7 Drama Desk Awards and 5 Outer Critic Circle Awards.Played in 15 different languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Castilian, Hungarian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Estonian and Russian.

Played for almost 30 years and over 12,000 performances at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London.The box office revenues are higher than any film or stage play in history, including Titanic, ET, Star Wars and Avatar.The countries are England, United States of America, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, Austria, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Wales, Estonia, Russia, Singapore, Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Philippines, China, Czech Republic, Thailand, Turkey and Finland.

Played to over 140 million people in 33 countries in 166 cities around the world with an estimated gross of $6 billion.

Phantom of the opera costume 3 yr old