Mariah Celebrates Mom's Birthday in NY

It's only fitting that Mariah Carey and her mother, Patricia Hickey Carey, celebrated the weekend in song.

The 42-year-old five-time Grammy winner and her mom, a former opera singer, celebrated Patricia's 76th birthday this weekend by taking in a Friday night performance of "Phantom of the Opera" at Broadway's Majestic Theatre. Afterward, a waiting Rolls-Royce took them to Lincoln Center, where they walked around the courtyard fountain while a performance of "Rigoletto" was letting out at the Metropolitan Opera.

"Both looked gorgeous," a source on the scene told Confideni@l. "Mariah Carey was in a black dress with hair pulled into a cascading fall. Mom was in a pantsuit."

When the ladies arrived at the Majestic, the "crowd went nuts!"

An insider said it was a sentimental journey for Patricia, a big "Phantom" fan who's seen the long-running musical several times. Early in her singing career, she performed Verdi’s "Rigoletto."

After a stroll around the performance center's grounds, the two songbirds said they were going to get dessert before calling it a night.