Love Never Dies

Marina loves the musical The Phantom of the Opera. It has a lesser known sequel called Love Never Dies which is not performed often. So when a touring production stopped near us I decided we would have to check it out. At first Marina wasn’t too interested. But as it got closer, she got more excited about it.

The show takes place mostly at an amusement park on New York’s Coney Island. Marina loved the circus inspired themes throughout. The sets and the costumes were amazing to see although the music wasn’t as memorable as the original. Marina really liked the young actor playing Gustav. The ending was tragic and when Gustav started to cry, so did she.

After the performance ended, the cast announced a fundraiser which meant cast members would be collecting donations in the lobby. One of them was the actor playing Gustav, so we got a picture with him as well as a few of the circus performers.

Most exciting was you could have a photo with the Phantom. Marina and I were both excited to do that! We had to wait in a line for the Phantom photo. While I was paying, the actor immediately started talking with Marina. He started by asking her name. I took photos of her with him and then we had someone else take one of all of us.

Once our photos were over, we went to the car. We’d enjoyed the evening but Marina has school tomorrow, so she needed to get to bed.