But based on both of those viewings, I still don't know when they would have gotten it on.
I've only seen the movie and the 25th Anniversary Show. If you've seen the original play or the 2004 movie, you're probably asking yourself, "When did they have sex?" because I sure was. There is some back and forth, and the two sing about the one time they had sex ten years ago. When he learns she is in America to perform for someone else, he dramatically breaks into her hotel room.
In the first number of the show, it's revealed that Phantom is still desperately in love with Christine. He built his own makeshift empire with people who may seem less than desirable and gave them a place to call home. In some ways, even the Phantom is redeemable. We can see she's a loving mother, is still somehow attached to Raoul, and is always willing to perform for the sake of her family. The only decent person here is Christine. Her character boils down to being jealous of Christine, who was once her best and closest friend.Īlmost every character is changed into an insufferable annoyance that deserves all the worst things in the world. She was once a prestigious ballerina in a Paris opera house, and now she's been reduced to singing about swimsuits while performing a tongue in cheek striptease on the Coney Island boardwalk. As for Meg, she is just another cog in this unfortunate play. For someone who viewed Christine as her own daughter, she is put off that Christine was coming to America. Madame Giry has also taken a page from the School of Becoming an Insufferable Asshole and has been turned into a backstabbing and largely irredeemable character. Unlike in the first stage show, Raoul is no longer heroic or even romantic.
And as such, he has blown all of his money. We learn that Raoul has a thing for drinking and gambling. But that's as far as their happy ending goes. After Christine married the Viscount Raoul de Chagney, they had a child. Y, Phantom builds up an impressive empire where Meg is featured nightly. It's there that Phantom starts his own carnivale/vaudeville spectacular on Coney Island. Ten years after the events that happened at the Paris opera house, Madame Giry, her daughter Meg, and Phantom, run off to America. The official poster for Love Never Dies the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Ben Lewis stars as our tortured Phantom, while Anna O'Byrne is our Christine. For this article, I watched the Australian production of Love Never Dies, which you can rent on Amazon Prime. Likewise, if you go in like a wide-eyed doe knowing nothing of the previous show, you may like it at face value. The only similarity between the two shows are the character names. If you have never seen Phantom of the Opera and decide to watch Love Never Dies after reading this - don't worry. And since clearly no one ever says no to Webber, we got this atrocity. Based partially on the book The Phantom of Manhattan, Andrew Lloyd Webber created a follow up that no one asked for.