The Phantom Lives

I'm secretly a gay man (look out Anderson Cooper!) and have a bit of a thing for musicals, so I think this qualifies as queer gossip even if I have no idea if any queers are involved yet. But I digress...

Andrew Lloyd-Webber is debuting his sequel to The Phantom of the Opera called Phantom: Love Never Dies in three locations, including Broadway, London and an Asian city, likely Shanghai, making theater history. The Daily Mail reports:

Lord Lloyd-Webber, 60, said the sequel, entitled Phantom: Love Never Dies, would be set a decade or so later, moving the action from the Paris Opera to Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. In it, the Phantom is reunited with Christine, the Swedish soprano first played by Lord Lloyd-Webber’s wife at the time, Sarah Brightman.

Did he even see his own show? How can the two be reunited? In the end Christine grows old and DIES! Love may not die, but Christine does, and unless this is going to be a fabulous zombie tale, I'm not so sure I like it. Not that I won't be a sucker and watch it anyhow if it ever makes its way to my tiny city...