Yahoo! News: Despite some savage reviews when Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to "Phantom of the Opera" opened in London, the British composer believes that "Love Never Dies" will still one day likely make it to The Great White Way. After a planned Broadway showing was scuttled after the London production closed prematurely, the fate of the musical has taken an upswing since a reworked version of the show opened last year in Melbourne, Australia, to acclaim. Now, a filmed version of that production is debuting in the United States next week.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Lloyd Webber says "Phantom" sequel likely to hit Broadway
Yahoo! News: Despite some savage reviews when Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to "Phantom of the Opera" opened in London, the British composer believes that "Love Never Dies" will still one day likely make it to The Great White Way. After a planned Broadway showing was scuttled after the London production closed prematurely, the fate of the musical has taken an upswing since a reworked version of the show opened last year in Melbourne, Australia, to acclaim. Now, a filmed version of that production is debuting in the United States next week.
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I think that it is a wise business endeavor to release these on DVD, who knows how many Phantom lovers will go out to buy/ order the rest of the Christine/ Phantom story! However, I do not think that it is wise to make this a Broadway production. I think that by doing so, the entire purpose of keeping the original Phantom productions would crumble, with a sequel, more people would be hooked on seeing the more recent production, less people would see the original, and once the craze of the second show simmered out, so would the purpose of going to see the first Phantom time after time. At least with the DVD, there is a nice distance from the Phantom's broadway production, it could even encourage more people to see the actual Broadway show, hand in hand with watching the DVD, maybe just like the Wizard of Oz/ Wicked.
I personally feel that a Phantom sequel should have never been written. The original was such a timeless tale and so beautifully enclosed in a single story with no questions left to be answered. By adding this sequel, it honestly creates more questions in my mind. But despite that fact, the way the producers are handling it is a fantastic business move. Even though it flopped in London, the fact that they revamped in in Austrailia and now are giving a wider audience more accessibility to the show shows the intelligence of the business side of theater. By doing this, it will drive up the desire to see this on a Broadway stage, thus fulfilling Weber's view.
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