Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies
"LOVE NEVER DIES"? That's the name of the sequel to the Phantom of the Opera? 
You mean "Love Never Dies" like the tag line to Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 movie "Dracula" starring the great Keanu Reeves doing one of the worst British accents in the history of film? "Love Never Dies" like that? Taking a title from a movie tag line never works. Does anyone remember "Love Is In The Hair..." the musical version of "There's Something About Mary"? No! Because no one was that stupid.
Look, I'm not here to scream fire in a crowded theater and ruin your billion-dollar party. I'm a musical fanatic and know by heart just about every song Lord Webber has put in a show (and count Aspects Of Love as my favorite - so how crazy am I?)... but come on ALW!
THE PHANTOM IS NOW GOING TO HAUNT CONEY ISLAND?! Are you fucking kidding me?!
Why the fuck would Christine Daae even take a gig at Coney Island? Why the fuck would you hire the SISTER ACT lyricist to do LOVE NEVER DIES?!
I have plenty of more 'Why the fucks...?' but I'll cut it off right there and just say - please prove me wrong, Lord Webber, but this has 'disaster' written all over it.
Seriously, I haven't heard this bad of an idea for a musical since Manka Bros. announced they were adapting "Rampage Of The Stegosaur" for Broadway!
Lord Webber, if you're so insistent on putting a ridiculous premise like that out there (and you wrote it) then all this show deserves is a joke title - something like:
- The Phantom Goes West
- Yankee Phantom
- Coney Island Ghost (I believe ALW actually wanted to call it The Phantom of Coney Island - or something horrible like that)
- Christine Daae's A Little Whore (Thanks to Shane the intern. He says it'll work in Vegas.)
- Coney Opera
- The Phantom 2: Life's A Beach
- Etc.
Good luck to you and your soon to be crestfallen cast.
Jill Kennedy - OnMedeaP.S. - Please don't have them sing a song on the Coney Island Roller Coaster. I don't want to see The Phantom and Christine circle the theater in a roller coaster singing a love ballad. Please.
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About Jill Kennedy
Jill Kennedy is an Ivy League MBA / refugee from Lehman Brothers.
Manka Bros. (and the Manka Business Channel) hired her (for a very low sum) to cover the world of media (not the world of Medea) in her own words without corporate interference.
About Medea
Medea was a real bitch from classical mythology - as most famously dramatized by Euripides.
She was a sorceress and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece. When Jason deserted her, she chopped up their children. One could say, Medea acted as rationally as a major media company.
Tips, Scoops and Smoking Guns
Here here, Jill! But you know Andrew Lloyd wants to have a roller coaster circle the theater. I can feel it. He thinks it's 1988 all over again.
I've been waiting for this. Screw you Jill! Love Never Dies is a GREAT TITLE!
He has to know how ridiculous it is. Maybe it won't be so serious and more of a joke. I think Coney Island can certainly be romanticized. I want to see that There's Something About Mary musical!
No chance it closes in 6 months. It's going to run a year at least and then be successful around the world. Lord Webber (is a Lord or a Sir) won't allow this one to fail. It's too big to fail!
btw, I remember that tag line. It immediately popped into my head as well when they announced the title last year.
I know, Hollywood Producer, the name was announced last year and I just found out about it today. How out of it am I on the theater scene? Maybe I should back date the blog to 2008 like Nikki Finke does on Deadline.com - ha ha...
This is the first i've heard about the title but, then again, I don't care.
Lord Andrew is very serious about this show. No jokes. Here he is talking about it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm99m3ghMyY
Hey leave Manka Bros. out of this. Rampage of the Stegosaur is going to CRUSH BROADWAY!
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I quite agree. I think this sequel is a really terrible, terrible idea. The film of Phantom was a perfect work of art, entrancing and beautiful - so why touch it now? Why couldn't it just be left in it's perfection? To try to amplify the end of the story like this is a recipe for disaster. It doesn't take a psychic to foresee a gigantic flop...and I feel almost embarrassed for all involved. Too late though - it's opening in London in March!!
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