I saw the original London production - which was as bad as they say. For a start, all these years later, neither ARould our Christine had aged a day. Beyond that - we arent meant to believe that after the action of PHANTOM, Christine had sex with the Phantom. No thanks. If she sought him out for a fling, bad bad bad. If he found her and rpoed her, even worse.
The Australian reworking gave me great hope. In Act One they seemed to have fixed every unfortunate plot point from the original London production. But after intermission - nothing changed. Ran out of time? They did prove that the show could be fixed - they just stopped too soon. ANd the title song, repurposed from THE BEAUTIFUL GAME, is a non starter, |
