Check your inboxes! Just in time for ALW's big October 8th press launch, the LND website has been completely updated! There are now options to watch the press launch that was given in London this morning (including an excerpt of Ramin Karimloo, the Phantom in LND, singing one of the new songs, '
Till I Hear You Sing' ), preorder the soundtrack (double CD for £12.99 or £19.99 for the deluxe set, to be sent out in March 2010), and you can also sign up for a LND account (which, if you do, you'll get a free downloadable preview track of an instrumental from LND. There's also a 'The Phantom's Scrapbook' page, which is a scrollover tabletop scene, ala jkrowling.com, but without quite as much interactiveness. Oh, and you can pre-order tickets, too... they've seem to have scrapped the "OPEN EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME!!!" idea, as the only options are London spring 2010, Broadway fall 2010, and Australia 'mid-2011'. Canada is supposed to come along some time soon, as well.
For those of you who might have trouble with the Flash-ness of the LND website, the press launch video (and also an interview with ALW about LND) have been posted on RUG's official YouTube channel. You can watch them here:
ALW interview, 8:42 long:
[link]Press Release, 18:38 long:
[link]Have a look at the videos, at the very least! I want to hear some opinions!