LOVE NEVER DIES LIVE. CD March 2010. Broadway November 2010. SAMPLE TRACK.- Page 4

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 10:14pm

Yeah, what did I miss?

[camncal]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 10:28pm

i wish they would let Sierra sing something from the production so we can hear something from her.

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 10:28pm

If anybody wants "Till I Hear You Sing", I have it... (PM me)

[JasonM12480]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 10:33pm

Watch the press release video again. Around 18:02, while the orchestra is playing the waltz theme and then "Till I Hear You Sing", there's a brief musical tribute to a theme from the first show.

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 10:42pm

^ Yup, I caught it too. I remember ALW saying that he incorporated some of the themes into the new songs, and only the fans would really notice.


I'm also wondering why they chose not to have Sierra sing something... They could have at least done a duet. I'd like to hear how her Christine sounds now, since it's been three years since she was in Phantom Las Vegas.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:30pm

I hear it. That's neat. Should we assume the Woman in White stuff was also intentional?

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:39pm

What was the piece of music? I can't stop listening to the Coney Island Waltz, LOL, it's addictive. And I was one of those people who was almost dreading the sequel.

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:46pm

It's a theme from All I Ask of You.

I'm still dreading the sequel. :/

I love the music, I lovelovelove Ramin, I love Sierra, BUT the story still sounds horrendous. Good music and performances can't save a bad plot.

For me, it's 'Til I Hear You Sing that's addictive. :) I've been listening to it for hours. Ramin did an absolutely fantastic job.

Updated On: 10/8/09 at 11:46 PM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:52pm

Yeah, imagine if it becomes your favorite musical and then people ask you "What's it about?" Then you'd have to explain about Coney Island and a sex robot Christine.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:54pm

The Waltz takes me into another world, far away from reality, the first time a show has really done that for me since the original Phantom and "Tanz der Vampire". I love it. Will listen to the Phantom's song for the 2nd time in a minute. Haven't had a chance yet.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:54pm

Yeah, it's a little piece of "All I Ask of You" that you hear in the entr'acte of Phantom. It's at the end of the video.

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:57pm

Yeah, imagine if it becomes your favorite musical and then people ask you "What's it about?" Then you'd have to explain about Coney Island and a sex robot Christine.

My mom's taking a trip to London the week it opens, and I showed her the video, and asked her if she wanted to see it. She said maybe. (She likes musicals, but not ALW or Phantom.) Then I accidentally told her that the Phantom has a Christine robot and she said "... Okay, now that I know THAT, I don't think I want to see it."


She also said Ramin Karimloo is cute, but "he's no David Tennant" (her huge celeb crush) and that he's "unfortunately foreheaded", LOL. Poor Ramin. He does have a large forehead, but if he's got the right hairstyle, you don't notice.

Updated On: 10/9/09 at 11:57 PM

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:04am

Is it unhealthy to want to see Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman playing the leads in this sequel?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:06am

I am SOOO addicted to "'Til I Hear You Sing"

Holly - I love your mom due to her David Tennant Love :)

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:12am

She doesn't love David Tennant. She is OBSESSED with him. She's got about sixteen action figures, dolls, over 500 photos, has seen every movie/TV show he's ever been in (she watched the entire Harry Potter 4 because he has a two minute cameo), went to California to meet him, donated $50 to a charity just so she could get an autographed photo, and quotes Doctor #10 in every other sentence.


And "unfortunately foreheaded" is actually her term for Matt Smith, LOL. She's bitter about the 11th Doctor being less cute than the 10th. Updated On: 10/9/09 at 12:12 AM

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:14am

<----Has the power to do that

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:18am

Well, this

<--

Is my David Tennant. XD I don't have any action figures, but I've got pictures of him on my computer and have seen/heard nearly every show he's been in, in one form or another.

[binau]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:50am

I wonder if the cast album will be leaked before release. 5 months is a LONG time.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 3:11am

Too bad "The Heart is Slow to Learn" melody made it into The Beautiful Game. It would have been a great song to include in Love Never Dies, probably with new lyrics, but still. It's pretty.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 3:15am

Actually, "The Heart Is Slow To Learn" *is* meant to be in the sequel after all. Don Black lyrics and all, I believe, at least according to an article posted on this site yesterday. I kind of suspected this would happen after "Our Kind Of Love" vanished from "The Boys In The Photograph", the new version of "The Beautiful Game".

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 3:21am

Oh, well, that's awesome news! Odd, too, that Don Black's version of "The Heart is Slow to Learn" that he wrote for Dracula is no longer in the show or even offered in the licensed script from MTI. Updated On: 10/9/09 at 03:21 AM

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 3:52am

Yup. I noticed that too. When I heard it would be back in the show, *that* alone allayed a lot of my fears. At least musically anyway. "The Woman In White" and "The Beautiful Game" were both fairly disappointing scores for me.

EDIT: I think he thinks that too, because both those scores are already turning up in better forms in "Love Never Dies". Sooooo off topic but it reminds me how Jim Steinman recycled songs from his forgotten solo albums for "Bat out of Hell 2".

Updated On: 10/9/09 at 03:52 AM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 6:18am

Holly-- I'm surprised that your mum's not a Phantom fan, because it sounds like she has a great deal in common with the Phantom! They could play with action figures of their idols together! ^_^

(I'm not mocking her... I'm probably much more obsessed with Harry Potter than she is with David Tennant. It's kind of my life.)

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 6:28am

I'd be curious to hear The Boys in the Photograph minus "Our Kind of Love". That was the best song in The Beautiful Game. I really liked the whole "Our love is stronger than their hate" lyric. I still wonder how "The Heart is Slow to Learn" would fit into Love Never Dies. Does Christine actually fall in love with the Phantom in the sequel or is she singing the song about Raoul? I never got the impression that she loved the Phantom in the first one once she realized that he wasn't an angel. And even prior to that I don't think she really loved him did she? It was always an unrequited love that he had for her.

[Justin D]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 8:44am

Sierra said in an interview that she sings the "title song" which any bet will be the heart is slow to learn but maybe changed the title to Love Never Dies.

ANyone else think that the start if Till I Hear You Sing kinda sounds like that Barry Manilow song Cant smile without you.