

Meg, who dances and sings her heart out in whimsical vaudevillian-stylevignettes, is in love with the Phantom. Our masked impresario (played by opera veteran Gardar Thor Cortes) finds himself at New York’s rough-and-tumble Coney Island of the early 1900s, having fled France (remember, he killed people in the original musical, though that seems to have escaped the minds of everyone in “Love”) with the help of the eternally frowning ballet mistress Madame Giry (Chicago’s Karen Mason) and her daughter Meg (Mary Michael Patterson, in one the show’s best performances), who are now in his employ at his Mister Y’s (get it?) Phantasma.

“Love” picks up 10 years after “Phantom” left off.
