

This isn't the only record for "Phantom" - cast member George Lee Andrews played a total of 9,382 performances in the Broadway production of "The Phantom of the Opera". The record previously belonged to the musical "Cats", also composed by the legendary Webber, which reached the 7,485th performance on 10 September 2000. Cast and crew of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "The Phantom of the Opera" made their way into the Guinness World Records 2013 Edition as the longest-running show in the history of Broadway -musical or play-having performed over 10,000 performances at the Majestic Theatre in New York City, New York, USA.
