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
Cricket (musical) Cricket (musical) Cricket, also called Cricket (Hearts and Wickets), is a short musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday celebration, and was first performed at Windsor Castle on 18 June 1986. Several of the tunes from the show were later used for "Aspects of Love", so the work was dropped from public performance or recording. "Cricket" was the last original musical Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote together. After their collaboration on "Evita" in 1978, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice took what was originally intended to