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
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) plays the main theme from this song. The song was also covered by "X Factor" finalist, Rhydian Roberts, for which Lord Lloyd Webber wrote a male solo version specially for the artist. The beginning melody for this song was also used in the Alice Cooper concert DVD "Live in Montreux" before the song "Department of Youth". In about 2001, the song was covered by Sophie Viskich and Kris Phillips live in Beijing, China. Richard Clayderman has also arranged a piano-orchestral version of the song; originally found in his album "The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber". In 2011, Hawaiian-American singer Nicole