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
Andrew Lloyd Webber at Wembley Stadium, London, an event organised to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. BBC Radio 2 broadcast a concert of music from the Lloyd Webber musicals on 24 August 2007. Denise Van Outen introduced songs from "Whistle Down the Wind", "The Beautiful Game", "Tell Me on a Sunday", "The Woman in White", "Evita" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" – as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music", which Lloyd Webber revived in 2006 at the London Palladium, and the 2002 musical "Bombay Dreams". In April 2008, Lloyd Webber reprised