The Phantom sequel sounds like such a joke...- Page 2

[Weez]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 1:46pm

Actually, considering how angry EVERYONE gets when you bring up the topic of 'Phantom 2', is it strictly accurate to say that this is a safe option for Lloyd Webber? Sure, he can do a lot of recycling musically, but he MUST know that there's never been a successful musical sequel, and that MUST be preying on him. If he doesn't realise all this, he's more arrogant than I ever DREAMED possible, and deserves the massive flop that is to ensue.

[ladybegood]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:01pm

This is a disgraceful thread!

Whether or not the phantom sequel turns out to be good, bad or indiffeent, reality is that not one of you knows anything about it, apart from the fact that it is likely to exist. Yet you all apparently think that you still have a right to be ridiculously and arrogantly judgemental from that level of ignorance!

[Scripps2]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:02pm

"If he doesn't realise all this, he's more arrogant than I ever DREAMED possible"

arrogant and stupid

[Weez]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:12pm

Ladybegood - I'm usually the first person to get in everyone's faces and tell them to shut up, go home, and pull their damn pants up (or uh... to stop dissing a show that hasn't come out yet because they have no idea if it's good or bad until it comes out, and it's not fair to judge something without seeing it.) I'm RIDICULOUSLY open-minded when it comes to bad-idea shows. Possibly because my favourite show (man gets stuck in a cave, man dies) is on paper such a terrible idea, possibly because I am an eternal optimist who chooses to believe the best. I looked forward to 'Gone With The Wind', I'm looking forward to 'Shrek', and I've been looking forward to the 'Spider-Man' musical since the very first announcements.

And *I'M* saying that 'Phantom 2' is a waste of ****ing space and a disgrace to musical theatre. Call me names if you want, but there is no WAY this is going to be anything other than a SERIOUS trainwreck.

[dramagirl487]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 7:32pm

Also, i admitted in the opening post that I knew very little about it.

this thread is partially to gather information and partially to get everyone's take on the issue

From this thread, I realized it isn't as "safe" as I thought, since as one of the posters above wrote, Webber probably knows how risky a sequel is

i'm asserting that the sequel, safe or not, is a money ploy, which requires little knowledge of the future plot to realize

[A Fleur De Toi]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 11:13pm

perhaps it's a good thing if we have such low expectations now such that when we do watch it, we might just be pleasantly surprised.

well thats a hope.

[Becky2]

Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:56am

I think the fact that the rest of the world knows this is a good idea might even be fueling Webber to continue with this atrocity. He's off his rocker so much that he thinks "well! I'll show them, this will be wonderful! I'll prove them all wrong." But... He won't.

Webber needs a hobby. He should take up crossword puzzles as he watches royalties from the original POTO continue to steadily roll in.

[into_the_woods2]

Posted: 7/5/08 at 5:10pm

it definitely sounds like a fan-fiction story

[REVA107]

Posted: 8/26/08 at 12:35pm

https://www.playbill.com/news/article/119528.html

Reading through this again, I'm realizing how horrified I actually am. . .he makes love to an "automation of Christine."

I fear ALW has actually crossed the line of insanity. I think this merits real concern

[jennamajig]

Posted: 8/26/08 at 1:44pm

Um...he makes love to an "automation of Christine?"

::blinks:: I did not just read that. If that is part of the opening sequence, I don't know how I could sit through the rest.

[Byron Abens]

Posted: 8/26/08 at 3:14pm

Makes love to an automaton?

So he stole from Puccini before, now he's stealing from Hoffman and Offenbach?

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 8/26/08 at 5:21pm

The playbill article had a similar "wtf" attitude to the Phantom sequel. " So she's accepted a high-paying gig from a mysterious impresario to open a new amusement park. On her first night in New York, she draws back the curtain in her hotel suite and comes face to face with her new employer — flash of lightning, crash of chords — the Phantom! Christine has a child, Gustave, but is his father Raoul or the Phantom?"
DUN DUN DUN!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/26/08 at 5:33pm

ALW hasn't written a good show since Edward Windsor left RUG.