Being called "Christine de Chagny" is very interesting.
In THE PHANTOM OF MANHATTAN, Frederick Forsyth's continuation of the musical (a novella that is now out of print: which Lloyd Webber was developing before The Beautiful Game), Christine marries Raoul and has a child. Pierre de Chagny.
He turns out to be the "Son of the Phantom" and entails a long melodramatic series of actions in New York, as Christine becomes a world-wide opera star, pursued by the Phantom once more (this time he wants to raise his son!). It's a weird book, not very well written, but imagine what Lloyd Webber would have done with it.
From the top of my head, Lloyd Webber wrote one song for the sequel of PHANTOM, with lyrics like:
The heart is slow to learn
The heart is slow to learn
These feelings that I feel
Are foolish but they're real
I'd be wiser yet to see
This love can never be
And each day is like the last
When living in the past
I know it's sad
And you won't return
But yet, as I have said,
The heart is slow to learn
I never loved...
As I have loved you
Why is love cruel?
I wish I knew
Say what you will
It doesn't matter!
Until I die
There's only you...
Until I die
There's only you...
Andrew recycled the melody as "Our Kind of Love" in The Beautiful Game. Pity. Sequels haven;'t been successful, but any bet if this were staged it would have been HUGE. Perhaps more successful if it debuted as a movie.
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
-South Pacific
