Masquerade will once again host Le Bal Macabre in the Phantom’s lair following its October 31 performances. All patrons attending the show that evening are invited to attend the Halloween soirée in the Phantom’s lair, and the production will also sell soirée-only tickets.
The Halloween ball will offer music and live performances underneath the famed chandelier. The dress code remains the same for any performance date: guests are asked to wear black specifically (a slight change from the usual dress code, which allows white and silver) and are encouraged to dress extravagantly for the occasion.
The immersive Phantom of the Opera production officially opened September 29 at 218 W. 57th Street (formerly Lee’s Art Shop), and recently extended for the sixth time, now playing through January 31, 2027. Modeled after the seminal immersive production Sleep No More, Masquerade seeks to plant audiences right into the plot of Gaston Leroux‘s The Phantom of the Opera—of course, within the lens of Lloyd Webber’s long-running 1986 West End-Broadway musical. Once you have entered the Opera House, you trace the steps of the infamous Opera Ghost, who has been terrorizing the theatre’s performers and management. As the story unfolds, you learn of the Opera Ghost’s mentorship over Christine Daae—a young soprano who has become the object of his obsession.
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The inventive new staging plays to six audience groups of about 60 people every evening, meaning the complete cast features more leads than the show did on Broadway. Nick Cartell, Quentin Earl Darrington, Austin Colby, Derrick Davis, Nicholas Edwards, Ryan Vona, and Kyle Scatliffe share the role of the Phantom. The roster of Christines includes Claire Leyden, Haile Ferrier, Francesca Mehrotra, Riley Noland, Addie Morales, and Kaley Ann Voorhees. Current Raouls include Travis Keith Battle, Joe Caskey, and Dan Hoy.
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The current company also includes Lee H. Alexander, Sydney Alie, Laura Lee Anderson, Courtney Balan, Annelise Baker, Mark Banik, Baby Burns, Jacob Burns, Austin Colby, Milena Comeau, Matthew Curiano, Saman De Silva, Artie Dibble, Gabriella Enriquez, Nicole J. Ferguson, Nkrumah Gatling, Jordan Goodsell, Bryan Hernandez-Luch, Satomi Hofmann, Joshua Ike, Kody Jauron, Tia Karaplis, Nathan Keen, Alan Kelly, Joseph Kerr, Deven Kolluri, Michael Kuhn, Jacob Lacopo, Audrey Logan, Noah Lytle, Georgia Mendes, Sami Merdinian, Anna Monoxide, Betsy Morgan, Charles Osborne, Liz Pearce, Stephanie Reuning-Scherer, Chris Ryan, Paul Adam Schaefer, Hannah Shealy, Annie Sherman, Phumzile Sojola, Kita St. Cyr, Cooper Stanton, Jeremy Stolle, Jack Sullivan, Olivia Tarchick, Sean Seamus Thompson, Schyler Vargas, David Wright, Nikita Yermak, and Kevin Zambrano.
Tony winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, 1776) leads a creative team that includes Hunter Bird, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Kathy Fabian, James Fluhr, Jessie Flynn, Nicola Formichetti, Skylar Fox, Kate Lumpkin, J. J. Janas, Brett Jarvis, Marc Kimelman, Lee McCutcheon, Scott Pask, Emilio Sosa, Gypsy Snider, Ben Stanton, and William Waldrop.
Attendees of the production are given instructions from “their host,” which includes a dress code advising patrons dress “extravagantly” in black, white, or silver and to wear a masquerade mask (if you do not have one, one will be provided) and to avoid wearing high heels to facilitate safe walking in the building’s recreation of the Paris catacombs. The venue is described as fully ADA accessible, and guests with specific accessibility needs are encouraged to email [email protected].
The production team for the revival comprises Rosario Arcuri, Stephen Arnold, Sarah Battaglia, Sean Beach, Evan Bernardin, Will Blumberg, Antoine Boissereau, Carolyn Boyd, Simon Brouke, Kelbi Carrig, Ruth Carsch, Kerry Concannon, Brittany Coyne, Hailey Delaney, Eric Dente, Eli Diker, Elizabeth Emanuel, Randall Etheredge, Stephanie Leah Evans, Shoshana Fisher, Dawn-Elin Fraser, Megan Frazier, Misha Fristensky, Christina Grant, Chris Habana, Simon Hammerstein, Billie Harmon, Cesar Hawas, Isaac Hayward, Morgan Holbrook, Amelie Julicher, Andrew Katz, Viktoria-Isabella King, Jeffery Kurtz, McBee, Fiona McDougal, Brian Messina, Vittoria Orlando, Amanda Perry, Dotty Peterson, Cinder Petrichor, Diana Rebholz, Alicia Rodis, Sadie Schlesinger, Jake Scudder, Max Seelig, Giza Selimi, Ashley Setzler, James Sherwood, David Shocket, Naomi Symeou, Nakkia Smalls, Monet Thibou, Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, Madilyn Tramonte, Benjamin Weigel, Kat West, Nzinga Williams, Chelsea Wilson, David Andrew Wilson, Mike Wojchik, Alex Wolfe, Asher Young, and Alec Zbornak.
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