009 - Love Never Dies ("Fuhgeddaboudit, New Yawk, Da Yankees") (w/ Susan Kim)

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 5 a.m.

Love Never Dies was a 2010 musical from famed composer and plagiarist Andrew Lloyd Webber, acting as a sequel to his mega-hit show The Phantom Of The Opera. Originally based off an unofficial sequel to the original story titled The Phantom Of Manhattan, Webber took many artistic liberties, turning the stage version into a story where the previously independent lead Christine now finds herself pining for the titular Phantom once again, mired in a romantic melodrama set against a circus sideshow. The original stage performance itself was controversial for the sheer number of rewrites which took place, and was soundly mocked by critics for being overwrought and pompous.

On this episode of Hell Is A Musical Lilz and Scott dig into their first ever live stage performance of a musical, joined by Susan Kim. Join the three of them as Scott expresses his disdain for televised musicals, Lilz gets grossed out by the intense amount of gaslighting going on in the script, Susan rags on "The Rootbeer Man", and really bad New York accents abound.

...with Lilz and Scott!