Love Never Dies (musical) be difficult to adapt for a stage musical. Forsyth went on to publish some of the ideas he had worked on with Lloyd Webber in 1999 as a novel entitled "The Phantom of Manhattan". Lloyd Webber returned to the project in 2006, collaborating with a number of writers and directors. However, he still did not feel the ideas he had were adaptable into a piece of musical theatre. Finally, in early 2007, Lloyd Webber approached Ben Elton (who had served as the librettist for Lloyd Webber's "The Beautiful Game") to help shape a synopsis for a sequel, based on Lloyd
Love Never Dies (musical) of Boggess. On 26 January 2010 the title song "Love Never Dies" was first publicly performed at "The South Bank Show Awards", sung by Sierra Boggess and accompanied by Lloyd Webber and Louise Hunt on two grand pianos. The show was broadcast on ITV1 on 31 January 2010. The tune is identical to Lloyd Webber's other musical numbers "Our Kind of Love" from "The Beautiful Game" in 2000 and "The Heart is Slow to Learn", which was intended for a "Phantom" sequel, sung by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998 at the "Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration". "Love