"the phantom of the opera is here / INSIDE MY MIND"

[ellixian]

1. So yesterday, there was musical news of awesome FLAIL with 9 to 5. Today, my brain exploded from FAIL. Because news popped up on Playbill about Sir Andrew I'm-Completely-Crazy Lloyd Webber's sequel to Phantom - which is called, in a completely sad and dodgy way, Phantom: Once Upon Another Time. *weeps*

"The Phantom, having fled Paris, is running

Comments

[phineas_gatsby]

omg, that does sound like a bad fanfic.

Even worse? It's all Phantom-sympathetic. What made Phantom so interesting was that it presented Christine with a choice: Does she accept the handsome, well born, kind man who loves her and whom she loves, or does she go instead with the violent, murderous man who smells like a corpse but whose mind enthralls her? I think that the transition from novel to musical lost that important bit...

Again, ew. Worst idea ever. Does his current wife (Is it Madeleine?) have a hankering to play Christine Daae or something, and find herself too old?

[ellixian]

Seriously it is the WORST synopsis for a musical I have ever read. The original musical at least retained some of the motivations from the novel, but this one just sounds - IDK, pretty much retarded. I have NO IDEA what Andrew Lloyd-Webber is thinking in writing this. The story sounds so hokey and soap-opera-y. Can he not SEE that?! Bah.

[katernater]

I read The Phantom of Manhattan (the book on which the sequel is based) after I found it at a Dollar General store. Seriously. That's where I picked it up. Right next to the COLOR-ME-JESUS colouring books.

It was awful.

[ellixian]

Dude. There's a book!? It makes me want to weep from the fail. I admire your ability to read through the whole thing. I can't imagine it must have been easy to subject yourself to THAT.

[miss_mimosa]

I've actually read the book "The Phantom of Manhattan"...yeah, it's basically a bad fanfic. Something about Raoul getting shot in the crotch...

[ellixian]

Wow, they didn't even include THAT in the musical synopsis. This is going to be some kind of CRAPPY, isn't it...!

[bminor_or_a]

1) .....WHAT?! I...just...WHAT?!

I'm just waiting for Phantom 3: Crystal of Doom, in which there is not only a cursed crystal, but also an evil twin AND a coma baby..you know, as long as we're introducing ridiculous soap opera plots.

3. MUST. HAVE. NEW. PUSHING DAISIES.

[ellixian]

1. Worst synopsis ever, y/y?! I like your suggestions. At the rate Sir Andrew is going, that probably WILL be the name of the show that caps of his Trifecta of Evil.

3. INORITE. BAH. WITHDRAWAL FROM THE AWESOME.

[fastandfunky]

I love Andrew with all my heart, but he needs to scrap this Phantom asap. Wasn't his cat almost deleting all the music a good enough sigh, Andrew? C'mon.
But that whole concept makes my brain hurt.

[ellixian]

See, that's the thing, I LOVE Andrew too. But everything about this just sounds wrong and BAD. Can he not see that? Can he producers not see that? CANNOT PROCESS.