The Phantom Sequel, Love Never Dies opened at the Adelphi Theatre on the 9th March 2010 and now the reviews are in.
Love Never Dies follows Christine Daae 10 years after the original story when she accepts an invitation to perform at New Yorks fabulous playground of the world – Coney Island. Soon after she lands with her family she discovers who exactly the anonymous person who invited her over to sing is.
Guardian by Michael Billington
In short, the show has much to commend it and the staging is a constant source of iridescent pleasure. But, as one of the lyrics reminds us, “diamonds never sparkle bright unless they are set just right”. Although Lloyd Webber’s score is full of gems, in the end a musical is only as good as its book. With a libretto to match the melodies, this might have been a stunner rather than simply a good night out.
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The Times by Benedict Nightingale
Bob Crowley successfully evokes much of Phantasma, helped by projections of spooky horses on carousels. Yet that’s all rather cursory, as is the choreography, which doesn’t amount to a lot more than the inevitable bathing beauties bouncing about on the beach. Where’s the menace, the horror, the psychological darkness? For that I recommend a trip to Her Majesty’s, not the Adelphi.
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WhatsOnStage.com by Michael Coveney
Lloyd Webber has fashioned a deeply personal story once again of re-awakening his own talent, which in the Phantom’s case is an expression of sexual love, and meditating on the transmission of that talent from one generation to the next (from his own father, perhaps and onwards).
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