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Redemption
This has of course been done to death already... but here’s my own ‘repurposing’ of the finale to ‘Love Never Dies’, inspired by some discussion of the latest (Hamburg) production.
This is not a version of the characters I particularly endorse - but it’s one I can see Andrew Lloyd Webber accepting, at a pinch!
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All the Rules Rearranged, Chapter 8
Chapter 8: The Master and Marguerite
“She chose Raoul.” Every time it burst out of him with the same circling incomprehension. “The petulant sot, the fool: why, he was the last of us to know! He would have yielded her to me, yielded to the better man... Beauty, youth, wealth- he has none left, and still she cleaves to him. Ten long ( Read more... ) -
All the Rules Rearranged, Chapter 7
I've been going backwards and forwards on whether Meg Giry is actually 'in love with' the Phantom or not (especially since I'm using the original London production canon here, after which we were assured that her interest is purely professional, though this frankly isn't what it looks like at all...) In the end I've largely left this part of the ( Read more... ) -
All the Rules Rearranged, Chapter 4
I've been fiddling and fiddling with the important bits of this and then putting things back the way they were before, so I think this is probably as good as it's going to get...
"Je me voyais mal faire chanter à Raoul The beauty Underneath, mais le cœur y est !" Chapter 4: Dead Souls
Her aim shook so much that Raoul scarcely dared take his ( Read more... ) -
All the Rules Rearranged, Chapter 3
Raoul, naturally, doesn't have the faintest idea why Meg Giry would want to kidnap his son -- and of course he isn't the rescuer that Meg is hoping to see... Chapter 3: Diary of a Madman
Gustave. Raoul would not let himself think of anything else. He kept the boy’s face before his mind’s eye with a fierce, willed concentration, as if that ( Read more... ) -
Still working on Meg-chapter
It's amusing to watch the way that Raoul keeps intruding into what is supposed to be a hurt/comfort scene between Meg and the Phantom... but my goodness, I find it hard to create a scenario in which Meg (or anyone else) would be attracted to the latter ( Read more... ) -
Change of view
Brilliant(?) new idea -- have the new 'epilogue' (i.e. the left-over/delayed matter from Chapter 3) seen through Gustave's point of view rather than Christine's. We've had two chapters of Christine's PoV already, and using the child's-eye view of his parents opens a whole new set of possibilities ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 3 achieved
Third chapter finished, after some fiddling to the last two paragraphs of what I did last night. Thanks to the added half-scene carried over from the previous effort I now have a third five-thousand word chapter; this story just seems to run that way ( Read more... ) -
Reference pictures...
Reference pictures for original production of "Love Never Dies":
Christine's costume for her 'aria'
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Meg's costume on the pier love never dies, christine, meg giry, head-canonPhantom Reviewing Project: "Love Never Dies"
*Very* interesting new comment and analysis on "Love Never Dies" as part of the massive Phantom Reviewing Project (an attempt to review all the versions of "The Phantom of the Opera" in existence!): The Phantom Project: Reviews & Research / Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Webber (2010)Though I would say that, naturally -- since the writer happens ( Read more... )
