Jenna has a gift for baking delicious pies, through which she expresses her hopes, dreams and fears. In Waitress, a pie-baking contest — and a risky relationship with a gynecologist — offers her a chance for a fresh start and an escape from an abusive marriage. SUMMER 2017 | artsLife 63 Christine accepts an invitation from an anonymous impresario to perform at Phantasma, a new attraction on Coney Island. With her husband and their young son in tow, she journeys to the U.S. unaware that it is the Phantom who has arranged for her appearance in the popular beach resort. Like the original Phantom, the new show offers soaring melodies from Lloyd Webber, along with spectacular costumes and set designs that vividly evoke Coney Island’s carnival atmosphere. “I’ve often thought that we left the original Phantom with a little bit of a cliffhanger, and I thought, well, why not do a sequel to it?” Lloyd Webber says in a production video. Love Never Dies has been produced in London, Australia, Denmark, Japan and Germany. The North American tour is bring- ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ■ School of Rock (December 26–31, 2017). Earlier this year, Lloyd Webber earned the distinction of having four productions on Broadway at once, tying a record set by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1953. His quartet of shows includes the revivals of Sunset Boulevard and Cats, the long-running Phantom of the Opera and the new School of Rock, the touring production of which will rattle the roof of the Walt Disney Theater. Based on the 2003 movie starring Jack Black, School of Rock follows Dewey Finn, a wannabe rock star who tries to earn extra money by posing as a substitute teacher at a prep school. Dewey turns a class of high-achieving preadolescents into “a guitar-shredding, bassslapping, mind-blowing rock band.” Last year on Broadway, one of those pre-adolescents was Orlando’s Diego Lucano, who honed his PHOTO BY JEREMY DANIEL
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