When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” opened in Greece this year, it marked the country’s most ambitious theater production to date, with an all-star cast plucked from London’s West End and a local production company that had dreamed of one day staging the hit musical.
Following runs in Thessaloniki and Athens in January and February, however, all momentum collapsed when the show was called off March 10, three weeks ahead of schedule — marking one of Europe’s first major theater disruptions stemming from the continent’s paralyzing coronavirus outbreak.
West End star Ben Forster, who played “Phantom” in London’s long-running production, and in the Greek show (pictured), had boarded an Athens-bound flight from London, where he’d
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