| re: Yay! Something that I can comment on with knowledge! (Spoilers for Love Never Dies) | |
| Posted by: mikem 02:06 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: Yay! Something that I can comment on with knowledge! - LynnO 06:48 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| (spoilers for Love Never Dies) LynnO, thank you for all the detail! It's been a while since I've seen the show, which I've seen twice - once on Broadway, and once in the Vegas version. Ramin kisses and clutches Sierra back in the filmed version. It's interesting that the US Tour version makes the Phantom more like a stalker and seems to remove any attraction Christine might have to him. That's a contradiction to Love Never Dies. LynnO, I assume you've seen Love Never Dies. I'm curious what your opinion of it is. I saw the US Tour. I enjoyed the music, and I think the title song is beautiful. But, as I think is often true in sequels, the writers feel like they have to create conflict by creating problems where none seemed to exist in the original material. I didn't like the way that Raoul was made out to be kind of a mess and a bad father. And when exactly during the course of events of POTO did Christine and The Phantom make a child? I also don't think the Christine of POTO would have left Raoul for The Phantom in the way that it happens. But the worst part was the end. The show was already making me lose my fondness for the characters, and then when Christine gets shot by Meg Giry and dies, I was sitting there thinking, "How could Andrew Lloyd Webber think that audiences will like this ending?" I guessing he was going for Tragic, but it was just a major downer to me and really left a bad taste in my mouth when exiting the show. I think the score of Love Never Dies is worthy of another attempt at the libretto, but a lot of the current plot needs to be thrown out for the show to be successful IMO. |
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