<P> Former Pink Floyd vocalist Roger Waters has repeatedly claimed in interviews that the signature descending / ascending half - tone chord progression from Phantom's title song was plagiarised from the bass line of a track on the 1971 Pink Floyd album Meddle called "Echoes". He has never taken any legal action . "Life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber," he said . "I think that might make me really gloomy ." </P> <P> Phantom has been translated into several languages and produced in over 28 countries on 6 continents . With only the exception of Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Romania, and the 25th Anniversary UK and US Tours, these productions have all been "clones", using the original staging, direction, sets, and costume concepts . Notable international productions include the following: </P> <Ul> <Li> Australia: 1990--1998: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth; 2007--2009: Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Perth and Adelaide, both starring Anthony Warlow . Marina Prior starred as Christine in the original production . In the original Australian production, Rob Guest later took over the title role . The final leg of the recent tour was staged in Adelaide in an arena format featuring giant screens on either side of the stage that presented footage shot simultaneously with the performance . 2013: Canberra starring Michael Cormick as The Phantom and with Julie Lea Goodwin starring as Christine from 9 to 23 August 2013 . Goodwin had previously played the role, as the "Alternate Christine", in the 2007 to 2009 national tour . </Li> <Li> Austria: The German language production premiered at the Theater an der Wien in December 1988 . </Li> <Li> Canada: The Canadian production of Phantom ran from 20 September 1989 to 31 October 1999 in Toronto at the Pantages Theatre, with Colm Wilkinson originating the role of Phantom . The Canadian International Touring Company toured the musical in Canada, Hawaii, Alaska, Hong Kong, and Singapore from 11 March 1991 to October 1995 . The Music Box Tour (Third US National Tour) played dates across Canada in 2006--2007 including Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Saskatoon and Ottawa . </Li> <Li> China: The Shanghai production played 97 performances at the Shanghai Grand Theatre . The World Tour had their sixth season at the Culture Plaza Theatre at Shanghai Culture Square from 3 December 2013 to 26 January 2014 . The World Tour returned to China at the Guangzhou Opera House in Guangzhou from 26 September to 10 October 2015 and performed its final season at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing from 17 November 2015 to 10 January 2016 . </Li> <Li> Estonia: Production in Estonian language (but with English and Finnish subtitles) featuring original sets, costumes, and direction premiered on 4 October 2014 at Theatre Vanemuine in Tartu . In first season 2014 / 2015 there were 24 performances in total, eight of which took place in capital Tallinn at Nordea Concert Hall (premiered there on 30 October 2014). In spring 2017 there will be further 12 performances (two of which in Tallinn). </Li> <Li> Finland: A Finnish production premiered in Helsinki in 2015 at the Finnish National Opera in English . </Li> <Li> Germany: "Das Phantom der Oper" opened at the Stage Neue Flora Theatre, Hamburg from 1990 to 2001, the Palladium Theatre in Stuttgart from 2002 to 2004, and at the Colosseum Theatre in Essen from 2005 to 2007 . A second Hamburg production ran from December 2013 until September 2015 at the Stage Theatre Neue Flora . A production in Oberhausen is currently running at the Metronom Theater from 17 November 2015 . </Li> <Li> Hungary: Madách Theatre, Budapest . This production, which began in 2003, was the first to modify the original staging with new sets, costumes and direction . The five hundredth performance on 20 September 2007 featured four successive sets of casts . </Li> <Li> New Zealand: Opened at the Aotea Centre in Auckland in 1997 and at The Civic, The Edge - Auckland in 2008 . A local production (with new designs) opened on 13 June at the St. James Theatre in Wellington and closed on 16 July 2013 . </Li> <Li> Panama: For the first time in Central America, "El Fantasma de la Opera" played in Spanish at the Teatro Anayansi of the Atlapa Convention Center from 23 to 25 September 2016, directed by Aaron Zebede . Randy Dominguez starred in the role of The Phantom, with Maria Fernanda Achurra as Christine and Leo Almengor as Raoul . </Li> <Li> Romania: The Romanian premiere was in January 2015 produced by the Romanian National Opereta . This new non-replica production was performed in Romanian with a local cast led by a British creative team . </Li> <Li> Russia: Moscow production cooproduced by Stage Entertainment and Really Useful Group premiered on 4 October 2014 in the MDM theatre starring Ivan Ozhogin and Dmitry Yermak as The Phantom . The stalls and the stage were modernised specially for the production . The premiere was attended by Richard Stilgoe and Charles Hart . </Li> <Li> Serbia: The Serbian premiere was in October 2017 produced by Belgrade - based Terazije Theatre. Production is performed in Serbian with a local cast . </Li> <Li> Singapore: First tour at the Kallang Theatre from 26 February 1995 to 20 May 1995, second tour at the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay from 23 March 2007 to 20 May 2007 . </Li> <Li> Turkey: The World Tour played in Istanbul at the Zorlu Center PSM from 7 April to 17 May 2015 . </Li> <Li> United States: Los Angeles (1989--1993), San Francisco (1993--1999). A US National tour commenced in 1991 in Los Angeles, and closed on 31 October 2010 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, after nearly two decades . The closing night performance was attended by many former cast and crew members, including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Australia: 1990--1998: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth; 2007--2009: Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Perth and Adelaide, both starring Anthony Warlow . Marina Prior starred as Christine in the original production . In the original Australian production, Rob Guest later took over the title role . The final leg of the recent tour was staged in Adelaide in an arena format featuring giant screens on either side of the stage that presented footage shot simultaneously with the performance . 2013: Canberra starring Michael Cormick as The Phantom and with Julie Lea Goodwin starring as Christine from 9 to 23 August 2013 . Goodwin had previously played the role, as the "Alternate Christine", in the 2007 to 2009 national tour . </Li>

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