We went to see the West End musical, Love Never Dies, on Monday night. I thought Monday nights were dark too, but it was showing and as far as we could see and hear the cast performed to a packed house. The reviewers aren’t raving about it though but the ticket prices don’t know this.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s attempt at a sequel to Phantom of The Opera has failed according to box office sales and publicity. What publicity?
Who knew in America there was even a sequel? Not my son a real Phantom buff! Malia wanted to see it but wanted a programme to give her a clue about the story, she didn’t get one. She said,
“I have no idea what it’s about, I am worried.” I said,
“That’s the job of the writer and director, to tell you the story,” and it did, brilliantly. The money we saved on not buying programmes bought us a beer on the way home.
My brother joined us up in the gods. We made a picnic of it in the third balcony of the Adelphi Theatre on The Strand.
We were allowed to move forward, well, nobody was buying the $60.00 seats so we were upgraded four rows.
We loved the drama, the projections and who can resist a Webber melody? Afterwards we discussed some tweaks we, in our amateur capacity, would have made. Nothing drastic. I still came out thinking,
“If that is a box office flop then how good do you have to be to be a hit?”
It really was a fabulous way to spend an evening. The voices were incredible, the effects were wow and the staging was truly brilliant. We were on a level with the spot operators, just to give you an idea of how high we were, and I was impressed by how they handled their instruments. Each time they hit they were spot on (pun intended I suppose, somewhat unavoidable), no Community Theatre flooding of the backdrop before finding the singing star!
Love Never Dies was dark, but then so was Phantom, the ending was a throw away but then Shrek is corny. I think Andrew waited too long to do this, twenty five years is pushing it a bit even in the world of suspended disbelief!
I bought the soundtrack, what more can I say!
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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