Theater review

MASQUERADE

Two hours with no intermission. Through Feb. 1 at Lee's Art Shop, 218 W. 57th Street.

When “The Phantom of the Opera” closed on Broadway in 2023 after a mirror-shattering 35-year run, everybody figured it would eventually come back.

Nobody, however, foresaw that the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical to New York would take up an entire department store and require comfortable shoes.

But, as soprano Christine Daae says, “Things have changed, Raoul.”

That’s “Masquerade,” the hot-ticket, magical, immersive spin on the show that opened Monday night off-Broadway at that old hallowed hall of theater, Lee’s Art Shop on 57th Street.

Directed by Diane Paulus, it’s “Sleep No More” meets “The Music of the Night.” You journey from the basement to an open-air rooft

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