This weekend's cultural experience: Love Never Dies

@spiderdust (14756)
San Jose, California
April 25, 2020 5:00pm CST
Did you know that The Phantom of the Opera has a sequel? Neither did I until this week! My family and I have been enjoying the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals that have aired on YouTube each weekend. As a part of raising morale during our global sheltering-in-place (as well as a fundraiser for The Actors Fund), a new full-length stage performance is available for 48 hours beginning each Friday at 7pm BST (or 11am Friday morning in my area). Last week we watched the 2011 performance of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, and today we're watching the 2012 Australian stage production of its sequel, Love Never Dies. Apparently Andrew Lloyd Webber himself thinks this is the superior performance of this particular musical. I have to admit, it is very well cast! Watch it while you can! This free performance disappears tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXP7ynpk1NY
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
25 Apr 20
Nice info for people who like that sort if stuff.
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Kelli M
@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
25 Apr 20
There's a whole bunch of streaming music stuff right now.
A List Of Live Virtual Concerts To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown
www.npr.org
We're updating a list of live musical performances from around the world, categorized by date and genre.
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
25 Apr 20
@spiderdust Nice, pretty cool there.
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
25 Apr 20
Thanks for the link, and enjoy!
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
26 Apr 20
I never knew that The Phantom of the Opera has a sequel, but I do not believe by the same author.
Anna
@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
26 Apr 20
@spiderdust I have read the original French novel of Gaston Leroux and I was sure he did not write a sequel.
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Kelli M
@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
26 Apr 20
@LadyDuck Some people think that the sequel was written to parody the original novel. I do not know. At least the resulting musicals didn't come across that way!
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Kelli M
@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
26 Apr 20
It's not written by Gaston Leroux, who initially wrote the story of the Phantom in his novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, but the musical was loosely based off the book The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth. Lloyd Webber wrote the stage production for both.
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