As the masked Phantom wordlessly led an audience member out of the room, a woman broke the silence to ask in a slightly panicked voice, “Where’s he taken my daughter?”

Harmless, temporary abductions included, Masquerade (through Nov. 30) is a meticulously organized piece of theater. Within an atmospherically dark and bizarro immersive environment in a midtown building, there are six performances every night of this adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.

Every evening, six different audiences (known as “pulses” by theater staff) are moving through the same, evocatively designed space meant to replicate the musical’s chief setting of the Opera Populaire. Somehow they never intrude upon each other. The soundproofing means that they should never hear each other’s perf

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