ALW @ LBC 1/29/05 Review: Sequel to Phantom??

This past Saturday night, my dad and I attended an Andrew Lloyd Webber tribute at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa. Valerie Perri (the first national tour Evita) was there---and fabulous. She made the evening worthwhile. It was four performers doing a musical review of ALW's life, alternating...kind of. Two of them were married, and stole the entire Phantom section---by stole, I mean they didn't let the other two sing the parts. Sad, because the others were my favorites. Whatever.

Anyway, the other woman (two guys, two girls) sang a song called "The Heart is Slow to Learn," and announced it was from the planned sequel to Phantom of the Opera. Am I just really out of it? Has anyone else heard of such a thing?





Edited because I can't type today

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Updated On: 1/31/05 at 02:57 PM

Well, if they're doing songs from it at a review, I'd say there's more than a grain...

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this was done on his 50th Birthday Celebration DVD as well. very old news. in fact they should not have announced the song from the phantom sequel. it's simply an unproduced song at this point. all plans for a sequel have been dropped. it was going to be based on Susan Kay's novel PHANTOM. Webber recycled the tune into THE BEAUTIFUL GAME and Don Black recycled the title into DRACULA but with completely revised lyrics.

Updated On: 1/31/05 at 03:13 PM

I believe that song in particular was put into "The Beautiful Game," rather than the sometimes mentioned sequel to "Phantom."

*sigh*

I never wanted to be one of those people who started unsubstantiated rumors. I was just saying what I heard...I THOUGHT it was from a somewhat reliable source. They should really update their information.

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The musical leaves a sequal wide open, and the movie leaves a sequal WIDE open. ((Beloved wife and mother... the red rose with the ring...))

The book doesn't really, unless the Persian lied. The only story left to be told is that of Christine and Raoul, which I could honestly care less to find out.

The HEart is slow to learn is a song from Dracula....good song too....like all the songs...well, almost all them, ::shudders at Modern World::

Despite the changed lyrics from the original version of the song ( The Heart is Slow to Learn), OUR KIND OF LOVE from THE BEAUTIFUL GAME turned out to be another very beautiful song. The background of the musical was also very different from the story of the Phantom, as THE BEAUTIFUL GAME weaves the story around the theme of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland about a group of friends who were first brought together by the beautiful game ( as Pele calls the game of soccer).

Yes, as CATS has said twice........the plans to make a phantom sequel is no more, THANK GOD!!! The melody of "The Heart is Slow To Learn" has been transformed into the BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING, HEARTFELT ballad called "Our Kind of Love." I have always loved the melody but the words to "The Heart is Slow to Learn," I hated with a passion.

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