Love Never Dies
Mar. 1st, 2010 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
odette_riverFor those of you who don't follow musical theatre very closely (which I assume is most or all of you), Andrew Lloyd Webber recently came out with a new musical. It's a sequel to Phantom of the Opera, set ten years in the future, although apparently the timeline is a bit messed up.
It gets better.
I'm currently listening to it. I'm halfway through right now. At first, I tried to take it seriously. Then I thought maybe I could think of it as a parody of itself and I'd enjoy it. Now I am listening to it for the lulz. And there are a lot.
So here's what's happened since Phantom of the Opera:
1. Mme. Giry, Meg Giry, and Erik (the Phantom; he's not actually named in the musical, but whatever) have gone to New York City and Meg is singing in a carnival show type thing. Mme. Giry is completely obsessed with Erik and getting Meg further into his good graces. Now, I don't know where this obsession came from, possibly the movie? Because in the original stage play, I always thought it was pretty clear that she wasn't on Erik's side. She knew a lot about him, but she didn't exactly trust him or anything. Now she thinks he's the best thing ever.
2. Raoul is a drunk. Also, Raoul and Christine have serious marital problems. While I always thought Raoul was sort of (okay, completely) an idiot, I also thought that Christine was good for him. She wasn't completely together either, and they had the whole love thing going on, as opposed to her weird thing with Erik that was more like Stockholm Syndrome. And while it's plausible that Raoul would become the crazy gambling drunkard of this musical, I also think that getting married and especially having a kid would make him grow up at least a little bit. Possibly I'm distracted by how Gaston Leroux says it all turns out.
3. Apparently Christine and Erik were actually in love at one point. This could, I suppose, be interpreted as just them looking nostalgically at the past. Well, Christine looking nostalgically at the past. I don't deny that Erik was in love with her, and now she's got Raoul who's even more of a wreck than normal hanging about.
4. When they confess that they were in love with each other, they also sing this thing that I thought sounded like they slept together. I figured I was crazy, because I don't remember that happening in the first musical.
5. BUT THEY DID. BECAUSE THE KID THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS RAOUL'S IS ACTUALLY ERIK'S. It was at this point that I stopped taking this seriously. I mean, really? Really? I can't... There's nothing I can even say about this.
6. And then, hilariously, the kid screams just like his mother when he unmasks the Phantom.
7. Also, now everyone sings like they're in The Woman in White. Well, possibly not everyone, but Meg really sounds like she's singing something out of there with different words.
There will be updates when I'm done listening...
It gets better.
I'm currently listening to it. I'm halfway through right now. At first, I tried to take it seriously. Then I thought maybe I could think of it as a parody of itself and I'd enjoy it. Now I am listening to it for the lulz. And there are a lot.
So here's what's happened since Phantom of the Opera:
1. Mme. Giry, Meg Giry, and Erik (the Phantom; he's not actually named in the musical, but whatever) have gone to New York City and Meg is singing in a carnival show type thing. Mme. Giry is completely obsessed with Erik and getting Meg further into his good graces. Now, I don't know where this obsession came from, possibly the movie? Because in the original stage play, I always thought it was pretty clear that she wasn't on Erik's side. She knew a lot about him, but she didn't exactly trust him or anything. Now she thinks he's the best thing ever.
2. Raoul is a drunk. Also, Raoul and Christine have serious marital problems. While I always thought Raoul was sort of (okay, completely) an idiot, I also thought that Christine was good for him. She wasn't completely together either, and they had the whole love thing going on, as opposed to her weird thing with Erik that was more like Stockholm Syndrome. And while it's plausible that Raoul would become the crazy gambling drunkard of this musical, I also think that getting married and especially having a kid would make him grow up at least a little bit. Possibly I'm distracted by how Gaston Leroux says it all turns out.
3. Apparently Christine and Erik were actually in love at one point. This could, I suppose, be interpreted as just them looking nostalgically at the past. Well, Christine looking nostalgically at the past. I don't deny that Erik was in love with her, and now she's got Raoul who's even more of a wreck than normal hanging about.
4. When they confess that they were in love with each other, they also sing this thing that I thought sounded like they slept together. I figured I was crazy, because I don't remember that happening in the first musical.
5. BUT THEY DID. BECAUSE THE KID THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS RAOUL'S IS ACTUALLY ERIK'S. It was at this point that I stopped taking this seriously. I mean, really? Really? I can't... There's nothing I can even say about this.
6. And then, hilariously, the kid screams just like his mother when he unmasks the Phantom.
7. Also, now everyone sings like they're in The Woman in White. Well, possibly not everyone, but Meg really sounds like she's singing something out of there with different words.
There will be updates when I'm done listening...
