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2024 gave us musicals, but they were foreign

Timeless Arts premiered a musical, The Phantom of the Opera in May 2024. PHOTO | ANDREW KAGGWA

It’s a new year and as we look forward to a prosperous 2024, we can’t help but look at what theatre offered us in the previous year.

2024 could be the year theatre was impressive and disappointing in equal measures, for instance one side of the city had Philip Luswata and Wava Theatre delivering a new production every weekend while at Bat Valley Theatre, Mariam Ndagire kept the light on with the Friday Night Lights where she celebrated a new thespian almost every month.

However, it’s the musicals that have been the highlight of the theatre scene; at the beginning of the second half of the year, the space was awakened with musicals.

Timeless Arts premiered a musical following up their two previous productions Merchant of Venice and My Fair Lady in May. For 2024, they opted for The Phantom of the Opera, one of the most successful musicals that have been staged around the world.

The Phantom of the Opera is the longest running show in Broadway history and celebrated 10,000 performances in February 2012, the first show to get to that milestone. It has a worldwide estimated gross of $6billion.

The Phantom of the Opera tells the tragic story of a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, masked musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House.

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