"Love Never Dies" also sounds similar to the theme from The Apartment.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
It's only four notes. I believe you need seven for a legitimate legal case. This is going to happen often though as there are a few sections of the Love Never Dies score that remind me of other songs. Some by Webber and some not.
Just watched this clip and Sierra sounds gorgeous. Liked the song better as "Our Kind of Love" and wonder how the hell the reworked "Beautiful Game" will stand up without its best song. But anyway...
But let me get this straight. Sarah Brightman was 28, I believe, when the original Phantom opened. This one takes place ten years later, so they cast...a 27-year old who was playing...what, 18 years old two seasons ago?
Perhaps the show should be retitled "The Phantom, His Amazing Time Machine, His Singing Obsession And Her Picture Of Dorian Gray."
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the best composer EVER. Did it every occur to any of you haters that the tunes to The Apartment and Free Willy were stolen FROM Lloyd Webber???
hahahahahaha. You've got to be kidding me. Best composer ever? Not a chance. And considering Free Willy was out 17 years ago, compared to Love Never Dies out a week ago... yeah, I bet they stole it from Llyod Webber.
Love never dies once it is in you? I think Glenn Slater is intentionally attempting to arouse me, but because it's Glenn Slater it's not really working.
Similarities occur everywhere in music as there are simply a finite number of note combinations. And most composers recycle to some extent. Berstein's iconic three-note motif in the West Side Story prologue first appeared in Candide, for which some of West Side Story's tunes were originally written.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
But let me get this straight. Sarah Brightman was 28, I believe, when the original Phantom opened. This one takes place ten years later, so they cast...a 27-year old who was playing...what, 18 years old two seasons ago?
elphaba.scares.me, she's actually the right age. christine is 18 in the first one and 28 in the second. the real age issue is that ramin looks so young and yet the phantom should be at least as old as madame giry. i love his voice, but he looks so young in the press pics. i hope it doesn't read that way on stage. anyway, it only makes sense to compare an actor's age to the character, not to another actor who played the role.
Christine is supposed to be 18 in the original?? Dang, none of the actresses seem to pull it off that young. I thought somewhere in the early to mid 20s.