LND Back to London Next Year

#1

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 1:49pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-LOVE-NEVER-DIES-Aims-to-Return-to-London-Later-This-Year-20130318

Please, ALW, please let it die!

#2

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 2:12pm

Don't you mean "please ALW, LID!"

DTA

#3

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 2:14pm

What has London done to deserve this?

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#4

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 2:20pm

It won't be until late 2015 if at all.

The show will tour from Early 2014 for 70-80 weeks and if successful do a London run followed by international.

#5

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 2:36pm

It's on DVD now. Why would people pay for the price of a theatre ticket when they can pay a lot less and watch this same exact production in their own home, and be able to fast forward through the parts that are unwatchable?

#6

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:48pm

...and be able to fast forward through the parts that are unwatchable?

But then they'll fast forward through everything after the prologue...

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#7

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 3:52pm

I am probably in the minority but I liked what I saw when they showed it in movie theaters. I went in thinking the worst but was pleasantly surprised I found it as enjoyable as I did.

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#8

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:03pm

I have never seen this and have no intention to.

#9

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:08pm

I am one of the few who thinks LND has some really strong points and I'm glad to see it isn't dead in the water.

It's not by any means a perfect show, but what ALW show is?

#10

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:12pm

"I have never seen this and have no intention to"

Than you have absolutely no cause to post in a thread about it. I found it very enjoyable and have watched it several times, enjoying it each time.

#11

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:20pm

I enjoyed it as well.

I mean, a sequel to POTO seems like a fundamentally bad idea but if you can get past that stigma it's an enjoyable evening of theater. The score is suitably lush and the story was pretty good.

Not his best, but certainly not an awful show by any means, imo.

I love the freak show scene (The Beauty Underneath).

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#12

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:43pm

I liked it.

I didn't really rate the story, but given the plot of Starlight or the lack of plot in Cats that's hardly a Lloyd Webber sticking point. Nut the score... oh the score. So beautiful. Definitely one of his best.

I will definitely be in attendance.

#13

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 4:44pm

Give it up, ALW. No matter how many times you polish a turd, it's still a turd.

#14

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 5:00pm

And is that your "official" opinion?

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 5:06pm

As a CD I have to say I think it's ALW's best work in ages--and I like the DVD (although partly in a "WOW they did that?" way.) I think doing it on the West End again, or bringing it to Broadway is too much, but there's enough life there to do a tour.

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 5:52pm

I find the Australian production to be easier to watch if you stop thinking of it as a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera and view it as a separate show, because as a sequel it is indeed terrible (and can't even follow the timeline set up in the original show, which takes place in the early 1880s, but somehow in the span of ten years it is 1905).

The score does have some lovely moments, though I do wish "Beneath a Moonlit Sky" was about two minutes shorter. Seven and a half minutes of two characters basically singing only about how they f***ed ten years ago is a bit excessive.

#17

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 5:54pm

Eric, did you just tell us you're a crossdresser? (So many acronyms flying here, just want to make sure.)

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#18

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 6:28pm

I can't wait! I adore LND. The music is beautiful, the costumes are amazing, the sets are inspired - the story is a bit naff, but so are many stories out there!

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#19

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 6:32pm

I sort of wish he would wait a little while with Love Never Dies and revive The Boys in the Photograph instead. I'd love a new recording of the revised version.

#20

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 6:42pm

I loooove LND! I think its one of ALW best scores. The DVD is amazing, for me that production would've been flawless if it weren't for the performances of the Phantom and Madame Giry. I will most likely be traveling to London next year, if so, I'm dying to see it.

#21

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 8:34pm

I wanted to adore LND so much. I'm a ALW fan boy. i sat through the entire PBS airing with the hopes of loving it. However, the only moment I liked was "'Til I hear You Sing." I truly feel no moment in the show lived up to that one, which is all the more disheartening since it is the first moment in the show.

#22

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 9:27pm

^Personally, I think they should move that song back to where it was and use the new Coney Island Waltz with lyrics as the actual opening number. "'Till I Hear You Sing" just doesn't really work for me as a prologue.

#23

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 10:44pm

Where was it originally?

Thematically, I thought it was an awkward prologue. And if positioned lated in the show, it could really help the piece.

To save the piece, I think the character of Raoul needs a re-write. I don't buy into the abusive drunk that squandered every penny plot line. I also think Meg needs to be toned down, her jealousy is so over the top that it borderlines on farce.

#24

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Posted: 3/18/13 at 10:52pm

I think it has some gorgeous music, and when "Til I Hear You Sing" starts, I think it is thrilling, but agree, I think it needs to be placed later, perhaps an Act 1 closer? It needs a more rousing chorus number to open the show.

#25

LND Back to London Next Year

Posted: 3/18/13 at 11:16pm

^"'Till I Hear You Sing" was originally placed in the first act after the first scene with Meg and Madame Giry. It was followed by a cut song with Giry confronting the Phantom and then a brief reprise which led into the first scene with Christine. I liked it better that way, but it could definitely be problematic trying to reinstate it with all the other revisions.