Musical Today The London run, and what a ticket actually buys
The Phantom of the Opera
The building is the joke nobody planned. His Majesty's Theatre opened as an opera house in 1705, spent a century staging actual opera, and has spent the last forty years staging a musical about a man who lives underneath one. The chandelier that falls every night falls in a room built for exactly this and never expecting it.
- Cities
- 1
- Home theatre
- His Majesty's Theatre
- Open run
- London, since 9 October 1986
- On sale
- 0 of 1 runs
- Last checked
- 8 September 2026
Previews began on 27 September 1986, the production opened on 9 October, and it has not moved since. It is the second-longest-running show in West End history, it has played to 160 million people across 217 cities in 23 languages, and it is now in its fortieth year at the same address.
Below is the London run as it stands: the theatre, the performance schedule, what a seat costs, how long the evening is, and where each of those came from.
Where it plays
Soonest first. Every city has its own page, with the theatre, the dates and the seller.
