The Coney Island set - with hotel settings lowered and revolved in as needed - is much less intricate than the opera house in PHANTOM but it's a visual feast hard to believe this was built for a show on tour. The routine which presumably ends Act One in theatres, with the circus freaks inside mirrored obelisks, is simply dazzling and the title song in Act Two and a duet/trio called 'Devil Take the Hindmost' are also outstanding. These alternate between arias for the principals (echoes of Franz Lehar and Ivor Novello, more operetta than opera) and production numbers in the circus which have the look of CHICAGO and the sound, here and there, of themes from STARLIGHT EXPRESS. But if there's less plot in this sequel there are just as many - and better - songs. That's about it as regards story: fairly thin. Raoul doesn't want her to sing for the Phantom.

His Paris protegee Christine is lured to New York with the promise of a fee that will settle the gambling debts of her handsome but drippy husband Raoul they bring their 10-year-old son with them. Ten years after from the fire in Paris which was thought to have destroyed him, the Phantom is running a Freak Circus on Coney Island.

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