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