Basic Facts

Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Basics

full length play in English with a prologue and two acts, ten scenes in the first act and nine in the second

15-17 M (not including extras), 15-18 F (including Christine alternate, not including extras)

based off of the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera

setting: prologue 1905, acts one and two 1881
location: The Paris Opera, Paris, France

running time: 2 hours 30 minutes with one intermission
http://broadwayworld.com/shows/index.php?showid=6624
2 hours 40 minutes
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showevent&event=thtsh


Genre

musical/drama/romance
http://www.rumela.com/movie/hollywood/hw04_thphanofthopra.htm

Playwright's BIO

"Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre, the elder son of organist William Lloyd Webber and brother of the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.
Lord Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. Several of his songs, notably "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from Evita, and "Memory" from Cats have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London.
Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of Lloyd Webber's musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. According to britishhitsongwriters.com he is the ninety-eighth most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history based on weeks that his compositions have spent on the chart."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber

Rights
rights are not available at this time because it's still being performed in New York