Love Never Dies (musical) original "Phantom of the Opera": "As sequel and original are erected on such different imaginative premises they cannot both be true". Love Never Dies (musical) Love Never Dies is a romantic musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth and Slater. It is a sequel to the long-running musical "The Phantom of the Opera" and was loosely adapted from Forsyth's novel "The Phantom of Manhattan" (1999). The plot is not based on the storyline in the original book by Gaston Leroux. Lloyd Webber stated: "I don't regard
Andrew Lloyd Webber tune for ITV's long-running "South Bank Show" throughout its 32-year run. The same year, Lloyd Webber also composed a new theme tune for the long-running documentary series "Whicker's World", which was used from 1978 to 1980. Lloyd Webber was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in November 1980 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the foyer of Thames Television's Euston Road Studios. He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the Adelphi Theatre. Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead