History Theatre / LoveNeverDies

* RealityEnsues: After his big number about "The Beauty within", the Phantom shows Gustave his disfigured face, to which the boy instantly screams and runs off in a fright. You can't make someone automatically not be afraid of disfigurement, especially when the person in question is just a child.

The sequel to Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's sensationally popular ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. It takes place on Coney Island, [[TimeSkip approximately ten years after]] the end of ''[[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Phantom]]''. Madame Giry and her daughter, Meg, helped the Phantom to escape to America after the events of the first show, and from there made it possible for him to open up a lavish amusement park on Coney Island. Then, without telling either of the Girys, he lures Christine -- now married to Raoul -- to come sing at his park. Craziness ensues. Music was done by Andrew Lloyd Webber, while the book was written by him, as well as Ben Elton, and Glenn Slater.

The show ran from 2010-11 in the West End. A [[{{Retool}} rewritten]] Australian production ran from 2011-12 and was filmed and released on [=DVD=], and several other countries (Denmark, Japan, etc.) have mounted their own productions since. A Broadway staging ''was'' supposed to launch in New York City in Fall 2010, but has since been lost to DevelopmentHell. A North American touring production [[http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-The-Phantom-Is-Coming-To-America--LOVE-NEVER-DIES-Will-Tour-US-in-2017-20150519 has been announced for 2017]].

* Downer ending

The sequel to AndrewLloydWebber's sensationally popular ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. It takes place on Coney Island, [[TimeSkip approximately ten years after]] the end of ''[[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Phantom]]''. Madame Giry and her daughter, Meg, helped the Phantom to escape to America after the events of the first show, and from there made it possible for him to open up a lavish amusement park on Coney Island. Then, without telling either of the Girys, he lures Christine -- now married to Raoul -- to come sing at his park. Craziness ensues. Music was done by Andrew Lloyd Webber, while the book was written by him, as well as Ben Elton, and Glenn Slater.

* DrowningMySorrows: Raoul does this at the start of Act Two at a Coney Island bar, wondering in song "Why Does She [Christine] Love Me?" Meg even asks him "Drowning your sorrows?" when she arrives.

* WomanInBlack: Madame Giry.

** Actually it's a DownerEnding, as [[spoiler: Gustave is left in the care of an obsessive psychopath that will most likely kill him when he does something untoward, and Meg ends up completely broken, thanks especially to Erik lighting the fuse by telling her 'we can't all be like Christine']]. As WebVideo/MusicalHell says, the only one with a positive outcome is [[spoiler: Erik]], who's at fault for pretty much everything that went wrong in both this and its prequel.

** BigThinShortTrio: In the Australian version, Squelch is big (he's a strongman), Gangle is thin (he's a barker), and Fleck is short (she's a little person).

* {{Yandere}}: Like in the [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera original musical]], the Phantom is still deep in his obsession for Christine and refuses to give up on her and is willing to threaten her to get what he wants.

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The sequel to AndrewLloydWebber's sensationally popular ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. It takes place on Coney Island, [[TimeSkip approximately ten years after]] the end of ''[[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Phantom]]''. Madame Giry and her daughter, Meg, helped the Phantom to escape to America after the events of the first show, and from there made it possible for him to open up a lavish amusement park on Coney Island. Then, without telling either of the Girys, he lures Christine -- now married to Raoul -- to come sing at his park. Craziness ensues. Music was done by Andrew Lloyd Webber, while the book was written by him, as well as Ben Elton, and Glenn Slater.

!!''Love Never Dies'' contains examples of:

** In the revised version, Christine refuses to sing for the Phantom until he threatens to take Gustave from her. [[spoiler:He ends up having a Villainous Breakdown at the end of the first act when he realizes Gustave is his child.]]

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* TheAlcoholic: Raoul.

* CutSong: The original prologue (later incorporated into "The Coney Island Waltz" in Australia), "That's the Place You Ruined, You Fool!" and "Heaven by the Sea".

* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Meg Giry seems to be an uncharacteristically young example of this trope; back in Paris she had a "promising" ballet career ahead of her -- the stage musical even presents her as the lead of the corps de ballet -- and now she's a burlesque stripper.

The show ran from 2010-11 in the West End. A [[{{Retool}} rewritten]] Australian production ran from 2011-12 and was filmed and released on [=DVD=]. A staging in Denmark ran from 2012-13, a Japanese production launched in 2014, and it's also had a concert staging in Austria. A Broadway production ''was'' supposed to launch in Fall 2010, but has since been lost to DevelopmentHell; Lloyd Webber still hopes to see it happen.

* WritersCannotDoMath: The sequel, set in 1907, is supposed to take place ten years after the original. Whether you go by the stage version (set in 1881) or the movie (1870), this doesn't add up. The opening text on the filmed version of the Australian staging says the original's events took place in 1895!

The show ran from 2010-11 in the West End. A [[{{Retool}} rewritten]] Australian production ran from 2011-12 and was filmed and released on [=DVD=]. A staging in Denmark ran from 2012-13, a Japanese production launched in 2014, and it's also had a concert staging in Germany. A Broadway production ''was'' supposed to launch in Fall 2010, but has since been lost to DevelopmentHell; Lloyd Webber still hopes to see it happen.