Musical Today Musicals for the last week of October
Halloween musicals: what is on, and what a seat costs
Four musicals playing on Halloween night itself: vampires at the Palace, a witch at the Gershwin, another witch in the woods at the Noël Coward, and forty years of a masked man under an opera house in the Haymarket.
- Musicals
- Four
- Cheapest seat
- £25, LW Theatres
- Last checked
- 13 September 2026
The cheapest seat The Lost Boys sells is on the night the show is about. Broadway Direct lists the Palace Theatre run from $55; most October performances are priced above that, and both Halloween performances are not. Halloween 2026 falls on a Saturday, so the show plays it twice — 2pm and 8pm, each from $55.
Wicked has the better anniversary. It opened at the Gershwin Theatre on 30 October 2003, which makes the last night of this October its twenty-third birthday, and it plays Halloween as a Saturday two-show day as well — a 2pm and an 8pm, four blocks north of the vampires. It is the least frightening thing on this page and the only one with a green witch in it.
In London, The Phantom of the Opera has been the answer to this question since 1986. It plays His Majesty's Theatre, which opened as an opera house in 1705 and has spent the last forty years staging a musical about a man living underneath one, and the chandelier still comes down every night in a room that was built for opera and never expected this.
The West End has a witch of its own this year. Into the Woods, the Olivier-winning revival that began at the Bridge, sends a baker and his wife into a forest full of fairy-tale characters, and the witch who cursed them is played by Kate Fleetwood. It plays the Noël Coward Theatre twice on 31 October, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm, and its second act is about what the woods do to people after the happy ending.
What is not here is as deliberate as what is. Other musicals on this site also play on 31 October 2026 — Les Misérables in London, Chicago and Maybe Happy Ending in New York, Cats at the Birmingham Hippodrome and The Fantasticks, in previews at the Hayes, among them — and none of them has anything to do with the season. Listing them would make this a page about the last week of October rather than a page about Halloween.
Halloween musicals on sale
The Lost Boys
Previews began on 27 March 2026 and the production opened on 26 April, in a theatre that had reopened two years earlier a storey higher than it was built.
Playing since 26 April 2026 · Palace Theatre
Wicked
Previews began at the Gershwin Theatre on 8 October 2003, the production opened on the 30th, and it has never played another New York address.
Playing since 30 October 2003 · Gershwin Theatre
The Phantom of the Opera
Previews began on 27 September 1986 and the production opened on 9 October, in the theatre it has never left.
Playing since 9 October 1986 · His Majesty's Theatre
Into the Woods
Previews began on 22 September 2026 and the production opened on 7 October; it plays until Saturday 9 January 2027.
22 September 2026 – 9 January 2027 · Noël Coward Theatre
Every button here lands on the seller's own calendar. The Lost Boys and Wicked are sold by Broadway Direct, the Nederlander Organization's own box office; The Phantom of the Opera by LW Theatres, which owns His Majesty's and sells its dates direct with no booking fee; and Into the Woods by Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, which owns the Noël Coward. None of the four is a resale site, and nothing is sold here.