"Tony Award-winning director Jack O'Brien — whose most recent Tony was for his direction of the Tom Stoppard trilogy, The Coast of Utopia — has found his latest stage project.
London's Daily Mail reports that O'Brien will direct the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. According to previous reports, the sequel is titled Phantom in Manhattan and is based on Frederick Forsyth's novel "The Phantom of Manhattan."
The London paper says much of the music for the sequel has been written, although the book and the lyrics are proving more difficult. Ben Elton, who collaborated with Lloyd Webber on The Beautiful Game, had worked on the show, but the results were less than satisfying. Now, novelist Forsyth is back working on the book.
The creative team will also include Tony-winning designer Bob Crowley, who worked with O'Brien on Coast of Utopia. The show will most likely be mounted in 2009..."
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
I thought the cat ate the music to this. I just do not see this going well at all.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
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This excites me in a big way. Jack O'Brien is pretty much the new Hal Prince, and if anyone can make gold out of Lloyd Webber starch, he can.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
I can't believe this is real. But if Jack is into it, I have to think it might be OK. . However, if the book and lyrics aren't even close to being finished, how could he know? They have to know that this is going to be underestimated before it even starts.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
"I thought the cat ate the music to this. I just do not see this going well at all. "
Hahahahaha, that's actually wrong..."Lloyd Webber's cat deleted the music to The Phantom of Manhattan, when it jumped onto a new, high-tech keyboard that Lloyd Webber had had trouble with."
hahahahhahahah I actually think it's rather comical.
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