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- Played to over 80 million people in 25 countries in 124 cities around the world grossing $5 billion worldwide.

- Continues to run and has played for 20 years and over 8,000 performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, London.

- Won over 50 major theatre awards including 3 Olivier Awards, the most recent being the 2002 Olivier Audience Award for Most Popular Show, an Evening Standard Award, 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical, 7 Drama Desk Awards and 3 Outer Critic Circle Awards.

- Original cast recording was the first in British musical history to enter the charts at number one. Since then it has gone gold and platinum in the UK and US, selling over 2 million copies.

- On 9 January 2006 the New York production overtook CATS to become the longest running musical in Broadway history. It has been seen by more than 11 million people.

- The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string. It is 3 meters wide and weighs one ton. The touring version falls at 2.5 meters per second. The original version was built by 5 people in 4 weeks.

- 2,230 meters of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed. The tasseled fringes measure 226 meters. They are made up of 250 kilos of dyed wool interwoven with 5,000 wooden beads imported from India. Each one is handmade and combed through with an Afro comb.

- There are 130 cast, crew and orchestra members directly involved in each performance.

- Each performance has 230 costumes, 14 dressers, 120 automated cues, 22 scene changes, 281 candles and uses 250 kg of dry ice and 10 fog and smoke machines.

- The touring production takes 24, 40 ft containers to transfer the set between theatres.