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
Ben Elton script for The Wiggles' feature film: "Pandamonium!", although he didn't direct it. He also wrote a Wiggles song for the Wiggle Town DVD and CD: "The Wonder of Wiggle Town". In September 2016, filming began in Western Australia on "Three Summers", a romantic comedy film written and directed by Elton, which was released in 2017. Elton collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on "The Beautiful Game" in 2000, writing the book and lyrics (Lloyd Webber wrote the music). "The Beautiful Game" won the London Critics Circle Award for best new musical. Elton went on to write compilation shows featuring popular songs