See where this is going? Photo Credit: Brinkhoff/Moegenburg The creative team has been unable to explain this discrepancy, but the only math you really need to do is the basic deduction that Christine Daaé has a son, Gustave (Casey Lyons), who looks just about 10 years old. Loosely adapted from the novel The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth, who co-wrote the musical’s book alongside Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, and lyricist Glenn Slater, the story picks up roughly 10 years after the events of Phantom of the Opera. But this is perhaps where the confusion begins-the year is stated as 1907, and the events of the first musical actually took place in 1881.
But this misguided, messy, melodramatic musical fails to live up to the legacy of its predecessor at every turn, and the many questions raised by the largely inscrutable plot can be boiled down to one: why? Photo Credit: Brinkhoff/Moegenburg For this reason alone, I suppose it makes sense that composer Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write a sequel, Love Never Dies, the national tour of which is currently playing at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. The Phantom of the Opera is the longest running show in Broadway history.
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