CMU School of Drama


Monday, April 06, 2026

The Phantom of the Opera and the Legacy of Its Iconic Wardrobe

Vogue Australia: The year was 1986. Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End was buzzing with anticipation as audiences gathered beneath its ornate nearly 100-year-old ceilings, unaware they were about to bear witness to the beginnings of a cultural phenomenon. For composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was about to debut his newest musical to the world—an adaptation of a modestly successful novel by French author Gaston Leroux about an outcast living beneath the bowels of the Palais Garnier in the 1880s.

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