Does Love Never Dies tell us what the voters want?

By Dominic Cavendish 133PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Great animation by Garland currently on the criticism pages - have you seen it? - niftily restraining in the opening of Love Never Dies with the calamity awaiting of a supplement to the Brown government. Cue design of a half-masked Gordon with his fingers in full throttle-position around the neck of the electorate, envisaged as the ravishing immature soprano Christine. "Coming Soon! The Phantom of the Soap Opera - Starring The Same Old Cast" runs the pointy wording, and next Return by Popular Demand".

Those of us who fright that the past couple of years have usually been a dress-rehearsal for an even bigger disaster should cut it out and support it.

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I have to contend that I think hes got it in one. I havent nonetheless review all the reviews of Love Never Dies - and I think the over typical mortal energy to wade by all the explanation that has been spewing onward in the blogo-sphere ever given the screen went up on the shows initial preview, dual weeks ago.

To my knowledge, though, no one has nonetheless highlighted the rare approach in that Love Never Does does in law crop up to constraint the sold domestic mood of the moment. Its no tip that Andrew Lloyd Webber, carrying mulled over the thought of a supplement to Phantom of the Opera for at slightest the past decade, usually scrupulously got to grips with the plan during the last dual years - ie, underneath the full medieval dejection of the Brown premiership. And so most parallels come in to fool around when deliberation the affinities in between Number 10s main passenger and the figure who flits, in Phantom Mark 2, to Coney Island, that the really tantalizing to interpretation that Lloyd Webber was inspired, despite at a subliminal level, by the brooding, reclusive, shaping PM.

Without wishing to give afar as well most of the sequels storyline - nonetheless there are so most spoilers using amok in cyberspace, not to discuss entirely edited Wikipedia articles, that prudery is fatuous - the grave law sneaking in Love Never Dies is that the sinister anti-hero of the low-pitched is included with a deadly captivate the brave woman cant resist. Whatever dishonourable ploys he uses to secure his energy over her, the what she wants, at the finish of the day, that proves the clinching cause - and that boringly ordinary, potentially decent nobleman father Raoul (yep, let"s review that as David Cameron) isnt in the support of her desires. Beauty will have her Beast, you see. And that gruesome discernment done low-pitched strength should send as most shivers down the common spinal column of the Conservative Party as any apocalyptic perspective poll. Love Never Dies might or might not last forever, but it"s a product of the age.

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