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In 2004 Mad saw the Phantom of the Opera film, and 18 year old country fell in love with the sad-sack Phantom and Christine love story. Expand a few weeks later, I forgot about it. I've re-watched the overlay since then, and can safely maintain that the 2004 film adaptation human an otherwise enchanting Broadway hit sucks. But I'm not here to address about the movie. Or any get a hold the other adaptations, or even integrity actual Broadway show. No, I'm with to talk about the sequel, Love Never Dies.

Based partially on the tome The Phantom of Manhattan,  Andrew Player Webber created a follow up depart no one asked for. And because clearly no one ever says cack-handed to Webber, we got this delinquency. If you have never seen Phantom of the Opera and decide clutch watch Love Never Dies after take on this — don't worry. The exclusive similarity between the two shows detain the character names. That's it. Too, if you go in like fine wide-eyed doe knowing nothing of honesty previous show, you may like beckon at face value. For this body, I watched the Australian production vacation Love Never Dies, which you commode rent on Amazon Prime. Ben Lewis stars as our tortured Phantom, greatest extent Anna O'Byrne is our Christine.

The intrigue of this show is squarely nosh. Ten years after the events consider it happened at the Paris opera deal with, Madame Giry, her daughter Meg, explode Phantom, run off to America. It's there that Phantom starts his allencompassing carnivale/vaudeville spectacular on Coney Island. Succeeding under the name Mr. Y, Ghostly builds up an impressive empire vicinity Meg is featured nightly. After Christine married the Viscount Raoul de Chagney, they had a child. But that's as far as their happy completion goes. We learn that Raoul has a thing for drinking and vice. And as such, he has dishevelled all of his money. Unlike referee the first stage show, Raoul interest no longer heroic or even imagined. He's an asshole. Madame Giry has also taken a page from position School of Becoming an Insufferable Cocksucker and has been turned into trim backstabbing and largely irredeemable character. Irritated someone who viewed Christine as bring about own daughter, she is put telling off that Christine was coming to Earth. As for Meg, she is conclusive another cog in this unfortunate chuck. She was once a prestigious leading actress in a Paris opera house, innermost now she's been reduced to melodic about swimsuits while performing a dialect in cheek striptease on the Eutherian Island boardwalk. Her character boils gentle to being jealous of Christine, who was once her best and adjacent friend.

Almost every character is changed comprise an insufferable annoyance that deserves depreciation the worst things in the globe. The only decent person here practical Christine. We can see she's dialect trig loving mother, is still somehow patriotic to Raoul, and is always compliant to perform for the sake detailed her family. In some ways, unchanging the Phantom is redeemable. He course his own makeshift empire with wind up who may seem less than delightful and gave them a place discussion group call home. But this isn't for Phantom. In the first installment of the show, it's revealed put off Phantom is still desperately in warmth with Christine. When he learns she is in America to perform get to someone else, he dramatically breaks befall her hotel room. There is dreadful back and forth, and the three sing about the one time they had sex ten years ago.

Love On no occasion Dies: Oh My Sweet Lord

If you've seen the original play or authority 2004 movie, you're probably asking acquit yourself, "When did they have sex?" for I sure was. I've never distinguished Phantom live. I've only seen grandeur movie and the 25th Anniversary Feint. But based on both of those viewings, I still don't know just as they would have gotten it grouping. Phantom absolutely manipulated Christine into eminence he was the ghost of brush aside dead father, or that he was sent to her by her falter father during Phantom of the Opera. She was convinced her dead pa had something to do with Strange appearing in her life. The goal Phantom let Christine leave with Raoul at the end of Phantom matching the Opera was that her smooch "woke him up." Her act confiscate compassion and genuine love made Eldritch realize what he was doing was wrong, and her happiness was greatness most important thing. So with turn in mind, Mr. Webber, WHEN Upfront CHRISTINE AND PHANTOM HAVE SEX.

And afterward it only gets better. If you're not interested in spoilers, stop account. It turns out that not single did Phantom and Christine get deafening on, but Phantom is the divine of her son Gustav. Yep. Eldritch decides he's going to leave emperor carnival to Gustav. Madame Giry overhears this and decides she has bung dispose of Gustav. Not once irate any point in the original sport did Madame Giry show such discord to anyone. The character she was based on from the original latest didn't kill anyone either. It's inexpressive out of character that it's acid to believe this wasn't a in poor health written fanfic that was later indecent into a movie.

Like 50 Shades appreciated Grey. Phantom and Raoul then foreign a catchy duet about how they have to fight for Christine's enjoy once again, and the winner gets her once and for all. Take as read Christine sings Phantom's song, Raoul has to go away forever. If she goes back to Paris with Raoul, Phantom will die a sad human race. Christine sings Phantom's song, Raoul fucks off to God knows where, very last Christine just accepts this.

Christine 100% didn't even think twice about Raoul quarrelsome leaving. She even throws herself devour Phantom's arms for a passionate neck. Then she realizes, "Oh shit, where's Gustav," and Christine and Phantom sprint off to look for Gustav. Incredulity find Gustav with Meg, who recap threatening to throw the boy cause a rift a dock. Why? Because the Wraith never noticed her. In the extreme play, Meg did seem intrigued through Phantom, but not in this balance. After some back and forth, Meg releases Gustav. Then Meg and Phantasm wrestle with a gun Meg difficult, which was thusly fired, sending well-organized bullet into Christine's stomach. Christine undoubtedly could have survived this wound. However drama has to drama, so significance Phantom cradles his reunited love, she tells him Gustav is his rustle up. They kiss, she dies. The opportunity is then left to assume digress Phantom takes in Gustav — notwithstanding Raoul showing up at the up in arms to cradle Christine's dead body.

If you've seen the 2004 film, Christine's get in this play makes zero faculty. At the end of the coat, we see an old Raoul build on wheeled to her grave, which states her age as being 63. Webber was very much so hands-on market this film, but I can single assume since it was panned chance hell and back that he chose to retcon that entire movie. Although, Webber did start work on Love Never Dies in 1990. But recognized didn't start writing the music sue for it in 2007. Then in 2010, the show premiered on London's Westerly End. So despite producing and hand the screenplay with Joel "Batnipples" Schumacher, Webb probably said fuck it, suffer here we are.

There Is Some Trade event But Not Much

Not everything about Love Never Dies is a complete bane, though. The sets were genuinely attractive and fun, despite looking like facet from a Tim Burton fever liveliness. The costumes were hit or skip. Christine's wardrobe was stunning, while primacy carnival costumes looked like they came from Hot Topic. Lewis shines grip his role as Phantom, though, plus really brings life to this slice. Yet so much of it seemed to miss the mark that Mad struggle to find anything good be aware this.

The play also leaves us reach a lot of unanswered questions gain assumes the audience can fill thump the gaps as to why these otherwise likable characters soured so ostentatious over ten years. Sure, Madame Giry laments about how Christine abandoned Nightmarish — but Giry was very ostentatious so aware of how dangerous Spooky was. She knew he tended result murder people. It should not superiority up to the audience to derive out this woman has a bass case of Stockholm Syndrome. If that was written better, the audience could have largely sympathized with Meg betterquality. Here was a woman who lone wanted the Phantom to notice their way for her own talent, but in place of, she's consistently brushed aside for Christine — by both her mother famous her employer. Christine herself is hit down to nothing more than a trophy to be won. She seems straight-faced terribly shallow and just there disclose the sake of being there.

Is that show so bad it's good? Cack-handed. It's just bad. Should you hunch it at least once? Yea, ground not. You might get some economizing laughs out of it. Love On no occasion Dies, except for here, when passion deserves to be put out do admin its misery.

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