The Phantom of the Opera…2
Yes, that is correct. That is not a typo in the title. Andrew Lloyd Webber is current in development of a sequal to his smash hit musical “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Webber plans to open “Phantom: Love Never Dies” at the end of 2009, with an historic simultaneous opening in three cities - New York, London and Shanghai. “I don’t think you could do this if it wasn’t the sequel to Phantom,” he told the paper. “We’ve been into the feasibility of rehearsing three companies at once and opening very fast in the three territories. The one which really interests me [in the Far East] would be China…I think to open ‘Love Never Dies’ in Shanghai would be an enormous thing.”
The new musical will reunite the Phantom with his lost love Christine. Though the roles have yet to be cast, Webber states that “We are pretty clear who our Phantom is going to be - I can’t say who.”
Given that this is my absolute favorite musical of all time, I am ridiculously excited at seeing this. In fact, it very well be the push I need to get to New York for the first time. I can kill two birds with one stone then. Let the countdown begin.