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
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