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
Concept musical the show is based around a concept rather than a linear plot, author Andrew Lloyd Webber had intended to create a show that was not meant to "reflect [or] comment on the world, even in an oblique, metaphorical way." This was a drastic difference from the metaphors that defined the concept musical. Thus, the concept musical branched out into the megamusical, which utilizes spectacle and increased technology to "radicalize the imagistic potential of musical theatre." "Starlight Express", an "experiment" by Lloyd Webber, debuted on the West End in 1984 and on Broadway in 1987. Like "Cats", the show focuses on