"What I tell you three times is true": Apocalypse Soon - The Phantom of the Opera goes ...

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A Half-Masked Man to Ride the Q Train

When he's crashed the chandelier of the Paris Opera House and driven away the woman he loves with the sight of his abhorrent face, where does a musically gifted phantom go for a little R&R? Brooklyn, of course. In an interview with The Times of London, Andrew Lloyd Webber said that a recently completed sequel to his musical "The Phantom of the Opera" would send the title character — played by Gerald Butler in the 2004 film version — to 19th-century Brooklyn, to be reunited with his lost love, Christine, on the sands of Coney Island.

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From the Times UK:

Phantom: Love Never Dies, the sequel to Lloyd Webber's popular musical may open on three continents

Entitled Phantom: Love Never Dies it will receive its premiere at the end of next year and will make theatrical history if, as Lloyd Webber intends, it opens in London, Broadway and an Asian city, possibly Shanghai, at the same time. He said: "I don't think you could do this if it wasn't the sequel to Phantom ... We've been into the feasibility of rehearsing three companies at once and opening very fast in the three territories. The one which really interests me [in the Far East] would be China ... I think to open Love Never Dies in Shanghai would be an enormous thing."

(BTW - the Spike Jones/Homer & Jethro track is either hilarious or intolerable, depending on your tolerance for certain types of 1940s/50s humour...)