Chit Chat - The Phantom menace
Meanwhile, the number two in our list - Andrew Lloyd Webber - may have a problem on his hands.
Andrew Lloyd Webber on Any Dream Will Do on BBC One Photo: BBC / Richard Kendal
It seems that someone is set to pip him to the post of writing the first sequel to his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera.
According to a missive just received at The Stage offices, a Portuguese theatre company is soon to produce Phantom of Paris, with music by the late Peer Raben. Apparently, the work - set ten years after the supposed death of the Phantom - already has a tour confirmed “including Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Australia” and it “plans to head to London’s West End in 2009/2010.”
Lloyd Webber is, of course, already hard at work on his own sequel, which will relocate the Phantom to New York, if reports are to believed.
Also from The Stage
- TV Today: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Stage 125 Profile: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Shenton's View: Phantom of the Opera
- Shenton's View: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Mackintosh tops this year's Stage 100
- Lloyd Webber to make his acting debut with the Hollyoaks girls
- Lloyd Webber confirms Phantom sequel
- Lloyd Webber considers writing Phantom sequel
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