It took almost four decades Andrew Lloyd Weber's most iconic and popular musical upon arriving in Barcelona. And it has done so with a co-production by the production companies Letsgo and Amigos para Siempre (founded by Antonio Banderas and Andrew Lloyd Webber) based on the Italian production directed by Federico Bellone. It's a somewhat different production from the original that premiered in 1986 at His Majesty's Theatre in London under the direction of Harold Prince, where it is still shown, and even from the Lope de Vega Theatre in Madrid in 2002, which replicated it very exactly. One of the reasons why the new production is less faithful to the original is that it was originally intended to tour, and consequently had to be adapted to theaters of different sizes.