With any new musical the critics can ovbviously go either way (oooh er), but Phantom 2 is gonna get compared to the highest grossing musical ever, so it has a lot to live up to.
I don't think ALW gives a shit whether his career is 'revived' or not, he has nothing to prove and a ton of money, but I do think he cares about the creation.
In regards to a hit single, any show is gonna benefit, but I don't think he'll achieve that with David Zippel or Ben Elton. Tim Rice or Don Black maybe. Steinman of course.
Maybe he will use several lyricists (like Phantom 1), and I can see Jim writing one or two songs, as a remote possibility.
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> With "Woman In White" as Andrew's "Blind Before I Stop".
> Come on, the advance sales for this musical will keep it
> running a year alone. Every musical fan in the world is
> going to want to catch this for curiosity's sake alone.
> All Andrew has to do is write a big song like "I'd Do
> Anything For Love" and the rest is irrelevant. ONE big hit
> that can sum up the whole show. If he gets this right, his
> career is revived. If he screws it up, he might as well
> retire because no one's going to take him seriously again.
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> This, to me, is like the Evil Knievel of Musical Theatre.
> Will Andrew leap over the sharks on his motorcycle? Or
> will he crash into the pool and get devoured by the
> screaming hacks of Fleet Street?
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> It's all so exciting!!!
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