The Phantom of the Opera

Original London production press quotes...

..."soaring ballads and sensational stage effects."

A team of supreme theatre craftsmen have seized avidly on its lush romantic agony to produce a musical as sumptuous and unashamedly stagey as a Victorian pantomime - a blessedly trad antidote to the current craze for shows chockablock with laser beams, video streams and fake holographs.

Michael Crawford is superb...

Sarah Brightman makes a remarkable West End debut...

...this is as spectacular a piece of true theatre as London has seen in years.

John Barber, Daily Telegraph, 11th October 1986