Their return this fall is viewed as a test of the city's efforts to restore some new sense of normalcy. Now, after an unprecedented shutdown, the theaters are among the last workplaces to reopen. Word of the abrupt shuttering came during a 'Phantom' matinee at the Majestic Theatre on March 12, 2020, as some cast and crew themselves were falling sick. The crowded Broadway theaters, vital to the city's tourism industry, were the first places closed by the New York government as the coronavirus began to ravage the state. 'Hopefully, none of us have it, because if one of us have it, we all have it,' she said. Playing the show's heroine Christine required Picerno to kiss two co-stars daily and to sing full-throated love songs with them unmasked and at close range. She knew her job came with risks of exposure. 'I'm a full-on monk now,' she said during a rushed lunch break between back-to-back run throughs. Outside long days in a chilly mirror-lined rehearsal studio near New York City's Times Square, Picerno had put herself back on what she called lockdown. The Phantom releases the couple and vanishes.NEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Meghan Picerno was back at work after 18 months of pandemic limbo, overjoyed to be singing and dancing again with her 'Phantom of the Opera' castmates as they rehearsed for the return of Broadway's longest-running show.ДЄs the musical's late October reopening neared, sometimes all Picerno could think about was making it to the first curtain call unscathed by the breakthrough COVID-19 cases that had sidelined vaccinated actors at other shows. Christine explains that people do not fear the PhantomвЂ™s face, but rather his soul. The Phantom catches Raoul with his lasso and tells Christine he will let Raoul live if she stays with him. When the tenor is found strangled backstage, the Phantom disappears with Christine. While singing a duet with the OperaвЂ™s principal tenor, Christine realizes she is actually singing with the Phantom. Raoul rescues Christine while the angry Phantom sets the cemetery on fire. The phantom appears and begins to put her under his spell. Christine visits her fatherвЂ™s grave for guidance. Raoul plans to capture the Phantom at the operaвЂ™s premiere. She explains he is a brilliant musician and magician with a deformed face who disappeared. Raoul asks Madame Giry about the Phantom. He proclaims to the surprised guests that he has written an opera and Christine must star in it immediately. Months later the Phantom appears at a gala masquerade ball. The Phantom is angered and a chandelier falls. But during her performance, her voice is reduced to a croak and the stage handвЂ™s body falls hanging from a noose.Д¬hristine and Raul escape to the roof where he swears his love for her. The operaвЂ™s owners assure the enraged Carlotta that she will remain the star. A note arrives from the Phantom insisting that Christine be the new star. Upstairs Joseph the stage hand tells scary tales about the Phantom and his deadly вЂњPunjab lassoвЂќ (rope noose). Upon awakening, Christine lifts the PhantomвЂ™s mask and sees his ugly face. The jealous Phantom appears and leads Christine into his secret lair beneath the opera house. She believes she was taught to sing by an вЂњAngel of Music.вЂќ Backstage the operaвЂ™s patron, Raoul comes to see Christine who was a childhood friend. When the singer refuses to continue, the ballet mistress Madame Giry suggests that a young woman, Christine, replace her. During a performance, Carlotta, the prima donna singer suddenly loses her voice and a chandelier falls. Rumours swirl around the 1880s Paris Opera House about a ghost living at the opera who plays dark tricks. That makes it a bit like a soap opera or telenovela of today. Gaston Leroux wrote the French novel вЂњLe FantГґme de lвЂ™OpГ©ra.вЂќ It was originally serialized in the French newspaper вЂњLe GauloisвЂќ from 1909-1910. The original Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Phantom opened on LondonвЂ™s West End in 1986. Since then Phantom has become the longest-running show in Broadway history. The show opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in 1988. Phantom of the Opera reopens at the Majestic Theatre in ManhattanвЂ™s Theatre District on Friday, October 22, 2021. The Phantom of the Opera is back in the Paris Opera House at the Majestic Theatre

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