(Vocal Selections). Our folio features 13 vocal selections to Lord Lloyd Webber's follow-up to the global phenomenon The Phantom of the Opera that's set 10 years after the original in Coney Island. Songs include: The Beauty Underneath * Dear Old Friend * Devil Take the Hindmost * Look with Your Heart * Love Never Dies * Once upon Another Time * 'Til I Hear You Sing * Why Does She Love Me? * and more. Includes color photos and songs from the London production.
The characterization seemed off making most of the characters I had previously loved unlikable. I thought the whole thing was a weird twist to the story and it seemed like Webber was just trying to come up with another hit.
Oh, my. I read the libretto today after hearing the score. The story is ridiculous. The main characters are unlikeable. Plot contrivances abound. The music, even for Andrew Lloyd Webber, is forgettable, except perhaps for "Love Never Dies" but the scene where the song is sung is overwrought, bad melodrama. Since "Phantom of the Opera" is one of my guilty pleasures, I had high expectations for this and was very disappointed.