Well firstly, I'd like to say that I watched the Australian Cast Recording (not being lucky enough to see it in life) and the staging/costumes/set were superb! Really, in some scenes I felt as if I were looking at a real bar/circus/etc that one might go into on a weekend quite casually.
The 노래 was equally wonderful from most parties - I particularly enjoyed Ben Lewis as the Phantom, the 연기 mostly on the same level. However, I much prefer the songs of the original Phantom of the Opera.
And now for the plot. Christine, now married to the suddenly 쓴, 쓰라린 Raoul, and with a musically talented son Gustave, is a famous opera singer, called to Coney Island to sing for the first time in years. But what she doesn't know is that the phantom lured her there.
Because, Madame Giry (who had gone from a mentor to Christine, to possibly the worst mother EVER. And I mean EVER. ) and Meg (I really liked and emphathised with her character) had escaped with the Phantom from the angry mob at the opera house ten years ago, to Coney Island where Meg became the supposed 'Ooh la la girl' and Madame Giry the dance mistress.
Madame Giry is mad with jealousy when she hears that Christine will be singing, as she knows the Phantom will come to hear her, when what she wants is for Erik to hear Meg sing and fall as in 사랑 with her voice as he was with Christine's. This I do not get. Wasn't Meg a dancer? When did her 노래 become so brilliant?
So anyway, the Phantom comes to Christine's room in the night and begs her to sing once 더 많이 for him and reminds her of a night they spent together different to the others, when Gustave comes in. Erik promises to show him all around Coney Island.
When fulfilling his promise, Erik sees how musically talented Gustave is, and starts to wonder if he is his own son. After all, no one could say Raoul was such a master of 음악 as himself!
At this point I was just like hang on a minute. Because the phantom was like a fifty something 년 old, right? And Christine loved him only like a father, 또는 mentor? So what, what on earth would compel her to have a child with him? To even sleep with him? No. Just no.
So the Phantom shows Gustave his face, thinking Gustave will understand... But no. The boy runs away, screaming.
Even a child would understand how rude something like that is! At least, I did when I was nine. One of the family 프렌즈 has a deformity, but even my six 년 old brother does not point, scream and run away! But still, the phantom states he will give everything he owns to Gustave.
Madame Giry overhears, and inspires hatred and jealousy of the boy in poor Meg. Meanwhile, Raoul meets the Phantom, and they have a bet whether Christine will sing as she'd been lured here for, 또는 not.
So after Christine DOES sing, Raoul fulfills his side of the bet and leaves her with her 앤젤 of music.
But (and this was to no surprise) Meg has run off with Gustave to kill him. The phantom and Christine reach her just in time. She gives Gustave back to Christine then decides she will shoot herself. Erik slowly talks her out of it when he stops reasurring Meg and starts going on about Christine's brilliance.
Meg's anger flares up again, and in her anger she shoots the gun, accidentally hitting Christine.
No matter what I'd thought of other scenes in the movie, this really made me cry. Poor Christine! Meg and Madame Giry make a getaway instead of getting help, and Christine finally tells Gustave with her last breaths that the Phantom is his daddy. And to the phantom she whispers softly that "love never dies". Now this really made me tear up. But then, what does Gustave do? He screams, and runs away crying.
Just then Raoul arrives, and Gustave comes back. He shows the phantom that he accepts him, as Raoul sobs over Christine's dead body.
Curtain falls.
Overall, I did enjoy 사랑 never dies, and again must stress that the set really was amazing, as was the dancing, 연기 and 노래 quality, just not as much as "The Phantom of the Opera." The songs are just so much prettier and 더 많이 interesting in Phantom. Other than details which destroyed characters and were really very unlikely if 당신 take Phantom into account, 사랑 never dies pulled on my 심장 strings, and gave me an interesting possible turn out after The Phantom of the Opera. I'll still be 읽기 더 많이 Phanfics for alternate endings though! ;D
The 노래 was equally wonderful from most parties - I particularly enjoyed Ben Lewis as the Phantom, the 연기 mostly on the same level. However, I much prefer the songs of the original Phantom of the Opera.
And now for the plot. Christine, now married to the suddenly 쓴, 쓰라린 Raoul, and with a musically talented son Gustave, is a famous opera singer, called to Coney Island to sing for the first time in years. But what she doesn't know is that the phantom lured her there.
Because, Madame Giry (who had gone from a mentor to Christine, to possibly the worst mother EVER. And I mean EVER. ) and Meg (I really liked and emphathised with her character) had escaped with the Phantom from the angry mob at the opera house ten years ago, to Coney Island where Meg became the supposed 'Ooh la la girl' and Madame Giry the dance mistress.
Madame Giry is mad with jealousy when she hears that Christine will be singing, as she knows the Phantom will come to hear her, when what she wants is for Erik to hear Meg sing and fall as in 사랑 with her voice as he was with Christine's. This I do not get. Wasn't Meg a dancer? When did her 노래 become so brilliant?
So anyway, the Phantom comes to Christine's room in the night and begs her to sing once 더 많이 for him and reminds her of a night they spent together different to the others, when Gustave comes in. Erik promises to show him all around Coney Island.
When fulfilling his promise, Erik sees how musically talented Gustave is, and starts to wonder if he is his own son. After all, no one could say Raoul was such a master of 음악 as himself!
At this point I was just like hang on a minute. Because the phantom was like a fifty something 년 old, right? And Christine loved him only like a father, 또는 mentor? So what, what on earth would compel her to have a child with him? To even sleep with him? No. Just no.
So the Phantom shows Gustave his face, thinking Gustave will understand... But no. The boy runs away, screaming.
Even a child would understand how rude something like that is! At least, I did when I was nine. One of the family 프렌즈 has a deformity, but even my six 년 old brother does not point, scream and run away! But still, the phantom states he will give everything he owns to Gustave.
Madame Giry overhears, and inspires hatred and jealousy of the boy in poor Meg. Meanwhile, Raoul meets the Phantom, and they have a bet whether Christine will sing as she'd been lured here for, 또는 not.
So after Christine DOES sing, Raoul fulfills his side of the bet and leaves her with her 앤젤 of music.
But (and this was to no surprise) Meg has run off with Gustave to kill him. The phantom and Christine reach her just in time. She gives Gustave back to Christine then decides she will shoot herself. Erik slowly talks her out of it when he stops reasurring Meg and starts going on about Christine's brilliance.
Meg's anger flares up again, and in her anger she shoots the gun, accidentally hitting Christine.
No matter what I'd thought of other scenes in the movie, this really made me cry. Poor Christine! Meg and Madame Giry make a getaway instead of getting help, and Christine finally tells Gustave with her last breaths that the Phantom is his daddy. And to the phantom she whispers softly that "love never dies". Now this really made me tear up. But then, what does Gustave do? He screams, and runs away crying.
Just then Raoul arrives, and Gustave comes back. He shows the phantom that he accepts him, as Raoul sobs over Christine's dead body.
Curtain falls.
Overall, I did enjoy 사랑 never dies, and again must stress that the set really was amazing, as was the dancing, 연기 and 노래 quality, just not as much as "The Phantom of the Opera." The songs are just so much prettier and 더 많이 interesting in Phantom. Other than details which destroyed characters and were really very unlikely if 당신 take Phantom into account, 사랑 never dies pulled on my 심장 strings, and gave me an interesting possible turn out after The Phantom of the Opera. I'll still be 읽기 더 많이 Phanfics for alternate endings though! ;D
