Show Synopsis:
The Phantom still longs for Christine Daae, now from a new lair underneath his Coney Island entertainment attraction, where Meg Giry is the main performer. He anonymously invites her to sing at his attraction for the summer, and after he reveals himself to her, they recall their one night of sexual passion ten years previously. Christine introduces the Phantom to her musically gifted son Gustave and the Phantom realizes that Gustave is his son. Raoul finds out that the Phantom has invited them and asks Christine if they can leave Coney Island. The Phantom taunts Raoul and then tells him that if Christine sings on the final night of the season, she will belong to him, but if not, Raoul can have her. Raoul leaves for Paris, but Gustave is missing, and The Phantom believes that Raoul took the child with him. Meg Giry has actually kidnapped him in an attempt to drown him out of anger that the Phantom prefers Christine to her. Christine and the Phantom follow her and Meg accidentally shoots Christine, who shares one last kiss with the Phantom.	

Character:
The Phantom of the Opera, a man with severe physical defects that labeled him a freak at a young age and caused him to live in the sewers of Paris; loves music and became infatuated with Christine during their private voice lessons; passionate and well aware of the fear everyone has of him; loathes society.

Song Context:
The Phantom lusts after Christine, as he has for the past ten years, staring at a large portrait he has of her in his new lair underneath New York.	

Fun Facts:
1) This musical was created as a sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster musical The Phantom of the Opera, based on Gaston Leroux's novel of the same name. 
2) Ramin Karimloo was nominated for an Olivier Award for his portrayal of the Phantom in Love Never Dies. He is also the youngest man to ever play the Phantom professionally in The Phantom of the Opera at the age of 29. The role of the Phantom was also the role that inspired Karimloo to become a performer. 
3) In an interview with the Guardian, Karimloo said that "[w]hen I first played the Phantom I decided to make him young, and studied Asperger's syndrome as a slight back-story because I saw some documentaries on unexplained geniuses and Asperger's came up. I kept that totally to myself, but then I got two letters from fans mentioning certain mannerisms of my Phantom, saying they really connected with him and that they had Asperger's. That was a big validation. I felt: 'Wow, this is affecting people like it affected me.'"