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rockfenris2005 09:54 am UTC 04/24/13 |
| In reply to: | re: DOTV Broadway Actually Had A Lot Going For It - steven_stuart 08:42 pm UTC 04/23/13 |
> > The story does destroy some of the Myth and magic of the > > Phantom himself. > > Why did ALW want to risk coming up with a sequel to the > most successful musical ever? I believe that he got quite > upset at a group of Phantom diehards who were organising a > boycott of Love Never Dies. I don't think we'll ever get a definitive answer, in my opinion, as to why he chose to write one, until after he's passed away. But I think it could have been for two reasons, the first being that the story was personal for him and he was interested to revisit it, and the second being that he wanted another hit like, well more or less the original "Phantom". > > > It makes him more human in a way.Which of course is all he > > is but when he was just a shade your imagination could > > fill in the blanks. > > Yes. Exactly. Well said. > > > The title track is nice.I was a bit put out when it turned > > up in "The beautiful game" > > I was like,hang on, this is for POTO 2. > > Can you explain in greater detail? Did ALW use the same > song in two different musicals? The music was used three times. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sang it at the Royal Albert Hall Andrew Lloyd Webber 50th Birthday Celebration. Andrew introduced the song and said that it had been written for what he would like to be a continuation of the story of "The Phantom of the Opera". The song was called "The heart is slow to learn" and it had lyrics by Don Black. This is my favourite version of the song. Well, it was Dame Kiri, for heaven's sake. But also, the lyric felt less "Hallmarky". Then Andrew reused the music in "The Beautiful Game" as "Our kind of love", which intriguingly enough was also sung by a character named Christine. But only the music from the choruses was reused. The verses weren't kept. (Although the tune was more or less "The heart is slow to learn" with different lyrics in the Hungarian production, or so I've read a few times now.) This time the lyrics were written by Ben Elton. Then finally, "Love never dies", with Glenn Slater's lyrics, which sounds more or less identical in arrangement and feel to "The heart is slow to learn", and because he used the piece in "Love never dies", the song from "The Beautiful Game" was then dropped from the score. Again, this is my least favourite version. | |
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