Love Never Dies… Or Does It?
When most people think of Broadway a couple classic shows come to mind such as: Cats, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Wicked and the longest running Broadway show to date, The Phantom of the Opera. Andrew Lloyd Webbers masterpiece is the only Broadway production to play over 7,500 shows and will be turning 21 years old in late January of 2009. Myths of a sequel to this colossal show have been tossed around for years now, but the idea is finally coming to fruition.
The sequel entitled, Love Never Dies is going to be set in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and is to be about ten years after the original story. The setting of the NYC landmark was the location of choice for Webbers new story as Coney Island has a history of having an eccentric/freakish crowd in which people could be themselves (not a bad spot for the Phantom).
When it came time to discuss possible leads for the sequel, two names have been floating around, Gerard Butler who played the Phantom in the 2004 movie production, and star-studded Hugh Jackman. Jackmans superior performance in The Boy From Oz is making critics grow more and more anxious for the first performance of Love Never Dies, which is set to start in late 2009. Will Webbers success continue and break the theater drought, or will the economic pull end this dream before it starts?
