The world’s best loved and longest running musical hits Mullingar from 28 March to 3 April when the Mullingar Student Players will commence their latest exciting project. Nothing seems to fase this group as they have already tackled the giants of musical theatre already with their performances of Les Miserables (twice), Cats, West Side Story and Miss Saigon but now they’ve gone for the daddy of them all, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ the defining show in the revival of musical theatre.
Based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a beautiful soprano, Christine Daae, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius, the Phantom.