Set ten years after the events of the first installment, the phantom has lured his muse from paris to new york city for a. The musical opened in london at the adelphi theatre in 2010, going on to have productions in australia, denmark, japan, germany, and a north american tour beginning in late 2017. As the love story continues in coney island, ny, the phantoms undying love has. A wellmade sequel develops and changes the characters and conflicts of the original work rather than just rehashing them. As the love story continues in coney island, ny, the phantoms undying love has grown for the soprano singer, christine daae. With gary oldman, winona ryder, anthony hopkins, keanu reeves. It is 10 years after his disappearance from the paris opera house and the phantom has escaped to a new life in new york where he lives amongst the screaming joy rides and freakshows of coney island. The music video for the coney island waltz is set to archival film footage of coney island. There is one duet that plays well on stage between the phantom and raoul, but raoul is such a washout of a character that i doubt most of the audience gets excited by their confrontation. Christine was revealed to really love the phantom, raoul was suddenly an. Who knows when love begins who knows what makes it start one day its simply there alive inside your. Based on a book by ben elton, the captivating love story of the phantom and christine daae continues in new yorks playground, coney island. Ten years after the events at the paris opera, the phantom is now the mastermind of phantasma, a coney island amusement park in new york.
That said, so many of the characters are not true to their original characters that there is much to dislike. Phantom of the opera is my favorite movie, and i have watched it many, many times. Directed by roger spottiswoode, with the screenplay written by bruce feirstein, the film follows bond as he attempts to stop elliot carver, a powermad media mogul, from engineering world events to. It is a sequel to the longrunning 1986 musical the phantom of the opera and was loosely adapted from forsyths 1999 novel the phantom of manhattan the plot is not based on the storyline in the original 1910 book by gaston leroux. Following the phantom of the opera, andrew lloyd webbers love. Also, please note the fact that this is a musical and that the cast members often break in and out of song, wh. He slowly reaches up and holds the phantoms scarred face in his hand, showing him the love he so needed from his son. With reese eveneshen, erin stuart, george papadimitriou, carlo adamo. It features a film of the same name about his slightly unconventional funeral. In this new electricallycharged world, he has finally found a place for his music to soar. This is based on the preformace at melbournes regent theatre this is also written in stage form, which makes it slightly harder to read. Despite the success of his endeavors, he is tortured by the absence of christine daae in his life and.
This time, instead of reacting in fear, gustave obeys his mothers advice and looks with his heart, not his eyes. One night, he meets the mysterious and seductive nona, a woman cast from his darkest fantasies, who lures him on a deadly chase to. Prints of the film survive in several film archives. The phantom returns in andrew lloyd webbers spellbinding followup musical to the greatest love story ever told. Set 10 years later, the phantom has escaped from paris to new york where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of coney island. Did we mention its set in turnofthecentury coney island. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. But the lovers reunion and the ending make it worth watching once. Check out our editors picks to get the lowdown on the movies and shows were. Set a decade after its predecessor, musical delivers the spectacle its builtin fan base is likely to adore.
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