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face=Georgia><FONT color=#111111>Touring ‘Love Never Dies’ puts the see in
sequel</FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
face=Georgia><FONT color=#111111>Tortured.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Anguished.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Frustrated.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN><FONT color=#111111>This
describes the dark, twisted title character at the heart of “Phantom of the
Opera,” the </FONT>longest-running musical in Broadway history and a production
seen by over </SPAN><SPAN
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million people worldwide.</SPAN><STRONG><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ">But it also describes playwright/composer Andrew Lloyd
Webber during the turbulent process of revising and remounting that show’s
sequel “Love Never Dies,” which opened to poor reviews in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica">London’s
West End, was revisited before an engagement in Melbourne, Australia and further
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">fine-tuned in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-bidi-font-family: helvetica">Hamburg,
Germany before beginning its 25-city U.S. tour this past October</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#111111 face=Georgia></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>The new musical, like the
original love affair between </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>Christine Daaé</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111> and her Angel of Music, The
Phantom, was passionate but incomplete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>It’s complete now, leaving
the opening night Playhouse Square audience anything but tortured or anguished,
though some faithful fans </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>well be a tad
frustrated by the direction this sequel has taken.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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