Love Never Dies
Adelphi, booking to October
The Fever Chart
Trafalgar Studio 2, booking to 3 April
Love Never Dies has been bugging Andrew Lloyd Webber since 1990. He felt that the Phantom of the Opera needed a sequel and he’s been working on it for roughly three times as long as it took Tolstoy to write War and Peace. The script assumes no knowledge of the earlier show. Christine, an unhappily married French diva, is offered a singing contract by a mysterious maestro who runs a theatre in Coney Island. She arrives with her husband and son and discovers that the maestro is none other than the obsessed Phantom himself. The ensuing love triangle is marred by the bizarre psychological distortions of the characters.
Christine is a whirlwind of professional ambition and romantic frustration. Her husband is a bankrupt aristocratic drunk with beautiful suits and an ugly temper, and the Phantom is a transatlantic stalker with a half-formed cranium.
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