The Phantom of the Opera: Love Never Dies

[Vanyel]

I poster last year that Andrew Lloyd Webber was making a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera called Love Never Dies. I was, and still am, a bit skeptical about this. I mean how do you top a classic? Phantom is Broadway's longest running Musical, how can one hope to compare?

Well I just found this music video featuring a song from Love Never Dies. It's called 'Till I Hear You Sing. I don't know now. Maybe LVD will live up to expectations. I'm not sure it'll be a Godfather II, but it just might be an Empire Strikes Back.
Not quite as good as the first, but still good.

 

[Holdfast]

The syntactical similarity with Wall Street 2's subtitle of Money Never Sleeps makes me wonder about the possibilities of a crossover...

 

[Aragorn]

The Phantom gets into the world of hedge funds and insider trading?

 

[Samurai8472]

The Phantom- Love.....is good.

 

[selina]

The Phantom gets cosmetic surgery and does therapy to solve his aggression and Raoul's days are over .

Seriously, I am sceptical, too. I'm not sure how Webber is going to develop the story further in a way that the audience will still feel for the phantom. Everything that needed saying was said. The story had a good ending. Why mess with it?

 

[Aragorn]

He gets plastic surgery, changes his name, becomes the DA of Gotham City, gets half of his body burned and it starts all over again.

 

[Sakrysta]

Phantom's real strength is the spectacle. The story is weak, but the ostentation of the show itself coupled with its bombastic, melodramatic music is what turned it into a phenomenon during its heyday. I really don't think that the theatre climate would support a show like Phantom today. Lloyd-Webber's theater style doesn't really suit what today's audiences are drawn to.

 

[Greg Cox]

I believe the musical is based on a novel, THE PHANTOM IN MANHATTAN, that was published several years ago . . . .

 

[Joy]

The YouTube account that that video is on also has a good interview with ALW talking about the development of the show.