O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's "Phantom" Sequel

[somethingwicked]

O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's "Phantom" Sequel#1

Posted: 12/21/07 at 10:43am

"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..."

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113725.html

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.

[BrianS]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#2

Posted: 12/21/07 at 10:53am

(best Maria voice) Let it not be true!

If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them. - Ethel Merman

[WickedBoy2]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#2

Posted: 12/21/07 at 10:54am

NIGHTMARE ON BROADWAY!

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'!'

[nmartin]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#3

Posted: 12/21/07 at 10:57am

In the name of God and all that is holy, stop this now.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#4

Posted: 12/21/07 at 10:59am

I am torn....I hate Phantom and Webber...but I LOVE O'Brien and Crowley (I'll forgive him for Tarzan).

Akiva

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#5

Posted: 12/21/07 at 11:01am

God have mercy on us poor sinners and let that not be!

BroadwayEd

[jacobtsf]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#6

Posted: 12/21/07 at 11:02am

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

[ErikJ972]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#7

Posted: 12/21/07 at 11:14am

Well now it may at least be a spectacular disaster instead of just a disaster.

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#8

Posted: 12/21/07 at 11:25am

Akiva,

I am with you 100%.


LOVE Jack!


Is Bob going to make everything round?

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[SporkGoddess]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#9

Posted: 12/21/07 at 12:01pm

Oh no...

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#10

Posted: 12/21/07 at 12:10pm

Unholy! Unholy!

"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

[BustopherPhantom]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#12

Posted: 12/21/07 at 12:24pm

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

[The Distinctive Baritone]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#13

Posted: 12/21/07 at 2:55pm

If Lloyd Webber was bored, why couldn't he have taken up racquetball or something?

I think that when his cat destroyed the original draft of the score, it was a sign from God...

[shesamarshmallow]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#14

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:02pm

2nd thing to make me mad at Jack in as many days. Poo.

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[jaystarr]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#15

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:07pm

I agree with you guys...

PHantomBuster- that's soo hilarious ! and Cape- your photo said it all !!! LOL !

J*
Updated On: 12/21/07 at 03:07 PM

[zooxanthellae]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#16

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:10pm

I never thought this was actually going to happen... Please someone stop this now!

[jaystarr]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#17

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:16pm

and Where's Lloyd Weber's cat ?
Updated On: 12/21/07 at 03:16 PM

[lovinlovett]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#18

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:17pm

This is a joke, right?

[AvenueQResident]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#19

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:35pm

Didn't he learn anything from his cat?

Everything in life...is only for now.

[Neverandy]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#20

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:39pm

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?

[jaystarr]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#21

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:41pm

[philly03]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#22

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:44pm

"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.

[henryt]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#23

Posted: 12/21/07 at 3:51pm

Do people ever learn?

Bring Back Birdie-4 performances
Annie 2: Miss Hannigans Revenge-Closed on the road
The Phantom of Manhattan-? performances

Follow the pattern

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#24

Posted: 12/21/07 at 4:00pm

"Didn't he learn anything from his cat? "

Or from 'Cats'?

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[jaystarr]

re: O'Brien to Direct and Crowley to Design Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' Sequel#25

Posted: 12/21/07 at 4:28pm

Phantom of Disaster in Manhattan!