![]() ![]() For Christine, having discovered her employer's true identity, the big question is "to sing or not to sing?". What the show lacks, in a nutshell, is narrative tension. Romantic obsession may be common to both shows, but where one may feel sympathy for a doomed outsider, it is hard to feel much for an omnipotent impresario. ![]() ![]() In Love Never Dies, set 10 years later, he has become "Mr Y" – the mysterious owner of a Coney Island pleasure ground who lures Christine back for a well-paid gig. The hero of The Phantom was a crazed Svengali prepared to murder, and send chandeliers crashing, to further the career of his beloved Christine. But there is a crucial difference between the two shows. I should say that I have no truck with those ghoulish groupies who've seen The Phantom of the Opera 852 times and regard any sequel as equivalent to painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa. ![]()
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