Love Never Dies tickets are available for all those fans that wished the Phantom of the Opera never ended. This sequel will open on the West End on February 22, 2010 with realistic hopes of breaking all kinds of theater sales records. More than 10 years of buzz are finally being realized at the Adelphi Theatre, already establishing one first – the first musical sequel to ever play in the esteemed West End.
The show, affectionately called The Phantom of the Opera 2 or Phantom of the Opera: Love Never Dies, will cross the Atlantic Ocean not too long after debuting in the UK. A specific theater has not been named, but Love Never Dies tickets will be available on November 11, 2010 on Broadway. The musical will take a journey across the Pacific Ocean as well, with Webber announcing an intention to establish a production in Australia sometime in 2011.
Most of the time when rumors of an upcoming production carry on for more than a decade it means the show is doomed and will never see the stage. With each passing bit of news these productions become entangled in conflicts and nonsense. Andrew Lloyd Webber has defied this apparent showbiz truth by announcing the production of Love Never Dies and the presale of Love Never Dies tickets on October 8, 2009 at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End, the home of Webber's Phantom of the Opera since 1986.
The location of the announcement is a key here because Love Never Dies is the sequel to that long-running original production. The new story is based on the Fredrick Forsyth novel, The Phantom of Manhattan. Forsyth wrote the book after being inspired by the musical and wrote it with Andrew Lloyd Webber's blessing. The book was published in 1997 and the musical sequel has been rumored ever since.
At the recent press conference, Webber announced that the musical would have its world premiere in February 2010 at the very Her Majesty's Theatre he stood before. The premiere would just be the preview run. The official opening night for Love Never Dies tickets would be on March 9, 2010. Later that year, on November 11, the musical would debut in the United States on Broadway. The famed composer also announced the intentions for a production to begin in Australia in 2011.
Webber wrote the musical score for the highly anticipated sequel, Glenn Slater wrote the lyrics, and the pair wrote the book with Ben Elton. Forsyth, the author of the novelized version was originally involved in the story, but eventually dropped out of the production.
On stage, Jack O'Brien will be the director. Ramin Karimloo will portray the Phantom. Karimloo is currently portraying the same character in the London production of Phantom of the Opera. Similarly, Webber has chosen Sierra Boggess to play Christine. Boggess previously portrayed the character for the premiere production of Phantom-the Las Vegas Spectacular in 2007.
