Love Never Dies: Review, God Help You All.

[rowanberries]

So yes, Love Never Dies: Unfortunately, Since We All Wish It Would Already.

Let's do that.

I have seven pages in my notebook, all written in the dark, and I will try to expand on each note to give you a flavour of just what bookelfe and I sat through. (Her review, for she is swifter and more industrious than I am, is here!IN FAIRNESS: On a certain level

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[bookelfe]

AMY I LOVE YOU AND YOUR RIDICULOUSLY DEDICATED NOTE-TAKING SO MUCH *____________*

LET ME SING TO YOU IN AN INAPPROPRIATE MANNER

[rowanberries]

I AM NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN.

*SHRIEKS AND FLEES THE SINGING*

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User bookelfe referenced to your post from No title saying: [...] Okay, I lied, one more post about Phantom: has posted her hilarious review [...]

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[rowanberries]

This thing has a hugely unsettling userpic!

I didn't know it did this!

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[bookelfe]

HHHHHHELLO AGAIN. Um. You can pretend it's one of the Phantom's automotons! THAT WILL HELP. :D

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[rowanberries]

THANK YOU THAT HELPS SO MUCH.

Mind you, those were pretty cool. Just not if it is coming to get me.

[ceitfianna]

Oh my, this is so hilarious and wrong. I love the seaside of poorly-thought out endings.

[rowanberries]

SO VERY POORLY THOUGHT-OUT.

[ceitfianna]

Though the image it conjures up for me is from Sweeney Todd and the weird beach scene as Mrs. Lovett tries to make them all be a family.

Going to the beach with those people would bring in new types of unhealthiness and shouldn't be done.

[rowanberries]

AHAHAHA - that would actually be a better musical if the two shows crossed over at that point.

Tobias and Gustave could commisserate!

[mercuriazs]

Some 80s power chords have arrived to kidnap Christine!

DIED LAUGHING.

Nnnnnngh. That is so problematic and stupid. BUT. I love your review! And I love that you linked to the image of the virgin-whore dichotomy, because AWWWW MEGGO. YOU SO CUTE AND BOUNCY. She talked about swimming in the river to feel clean, right? Can I ask a nerdy actor question?

How did she deliver/convey that information?

[rowanberries]

It was a good moment for laughter!

Those just... grew fewer as the show went on.

Meg and her swimming - well, she came in with wet hair in a towel, and as far as I remember, she said it outright. And then sang about it, because none of the lines or lyrics were subtle. Hang on, here's a couple of her verses:

The hopeless, the desperate
The good place to step off the side
Of the pier and quietly vanish
You seem to be a regular
Me?
I come here to swim

This town is coarse and cold and mean
It's hard to keep your conscience clean
Faceless in the crowd
Anything's allowed

And so I come at dawn each day
Come to wash it all away
Sink into the sea, blue and cool and kind
Let it set me free, let the past unwind
Leave the hurt behind

But the tone was quiet and just a little sad rather than full-on self-loathing, which was a nice contrast to Raoul, who shared the scene and song.

[mercuriazs]

Awwww! That sounds so pretty! *trawls YouTube nao*

[rowanberries]

Her parts were definitely the best! Without the bloody plot they tried to have, she would have had a nice little storyline.

Just as soon as somebody explained why a ballerina was suddenly a singer...

[rowanberries]

I HAD TO PROVE THAT I WAS NOT EXAGGERATING FOR ONCE.

But I cannot answer that, alas. I SUSPECT NOBODY CAN.