“The one which really interests me would be China. “We’ve been into the feasibility of rehearsing three companies at once and opening very fast in the three territories,” he said. Lloyd Webber told The Times of London that he hopes the new musical, to be called “Phantom: Love Never Dies,” will open in New York, London and possibly Shanghai or another Asian city. One of Jackman’s big breaks was in a theatre production of “Oklahoma” and he won a Tony several years ago for his Broadway role in “The Boy From Oz”.Ĭomposer Andrew Lloyd Webber says the long awaited sequel to “Phantom of the Opera” should be ready at the end of 2009, with a possible simultaneous opening on three continents.
Hugh Jackman has more of a “musical theatre” kind of voice, probably because that’s his background. He sounded a little bit like the lead singer of Nickelback, Chad Kroeger.
People are already rushing to cast the soon-to-be musical, and the two names that keep popping up are Aussie Hugh Jackman and Scotsman Gerard Butler.īutler played The Phantom in the 2004 film version, singing with a rock n’ roll kind of voice. He hopes to have the musical done by 2009, and he’s already got a name – “Phantom: Love Never Dies”, which sounds vaguely like a James Bond movie. Andrew Lloyd Webber is hellbent on composing a sequel to his musical “Phantom of the Opera”.
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