What is the name of the stage nusical by Andrew Lloyd Webber that is the sequel to his musical Phantom of the Opera?
"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"
"""The Phantom of the Opera"" – to compete for the role. Viewers' telephone voting during the series raised more than £500,000 for the BBC's annual ""Children in Need"" charity appeal, according to host Graham Norton on air during the final. In 2007, Lloyd Webber's cat, Otto, leaped onto his Clavinova piano and ""destroyed the entire score for the new 'Phantom' in one fell swoop."" The Phantom in question was The Phantom of Manhattan, a planned sequel to Phantom of the Opera. On 1 July 2007, Lloyd Webber presented excerpts from his musicals as part of the Concert for Diana held"
"reaction: ""How is the new Phantom faring with theatergoers who have seen it in previews? Not so well. ... Elsewhere online, 'Love Never Dies' has even spawned a Facebook protest group called 'Love Should Die', which declares in its mission statement: 'We feel strongly that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical ... is a completely misguided venture that is a detriment to the story of the original ""Phantom of the Opera"" novel and musical of the same name'. … Virtually everything about the show strikes us as illogical, irrational, offensive and—frankly—stupid."" A barbed reworking of the show's title from ""Love Never"
"In the Autumn of 2011 he staged the opening production of the Wexford Festival Opera's 60th anniversary season - La cour de Célimène by Ambroise Thomas. These were the first performances of the opera since its premiere in Paris in 1855 and this production was nominated for the Irish Times Best Opera Production Award. In 2015 Barlow staged a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera in Bucharest, which was the Romanian premiere of the piece. In 2018 Barlow will direct Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera at Folketeatret in Oslo which will be the Norwegian"
"The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall is a 2011 British film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"", which in turn was based on the 1910 French novel ""Le Fantôme de l'Opéra"" by Gaston Leroux. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the musical, three special performances were filmed at the Royal Albert Hall, the third of which was screened live worldwide on 2 October 2011. For further releases, footage from all three performances was edited together. To mark the extraordinary milestone"
"Melbourne run ended on 12 December 2011 the production moved to the Capitol Theatre in Sydney where it played from January to April 2012. The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart. Richard Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber wrote the musical's book together. Stilgoe also provided additional lyrics. Based on the eponymous French novel by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath"
"The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film) The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 British–American musical drama film based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the French novel ""Le Fantôme de l'Opéra"" by Gaston Leroux. Produced and co-written by Lloyd Webber and directed by Joel Schumacher, it stars Gerard Butler in the title role, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver and Jennifer Ellison. The film was announced in 1989 but production did not start until 2002 due to Lloyd Webber's divorce and Schumacher's busy career. It was"
"Lindsey Stirling did an accompanied instrumental version of the song on her ""Phantom of the Opera"" single in 2012. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) ""The Phantom of the Opera"" is a song from the stage musical of the same name. It was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt. The song was originally recorded by Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley, which became a UK hit single in 1986, prior to the musical. In its theatrical debut, it was sung by Brightman and Michael"
"The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) ""The Phantom of the Opera"" is a song from the stage musical of the same name. It was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt. The song was originally recorded by Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley, which became a UK hit single in 1986, prior to the musical. In its theatrical debut, it was sung by Brightman and Michael Crawford in their roles as Christine Daaé and the Phantom. The song is performed in Act I after the"
"The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart. Richard Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber wrote the musical's book together. Stilgoe also provided additional lyrics. Based on the eponymous French novel by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House. The musical opened in London's West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. It won the 1986 Olivier Award"
"overseen by Lloyd Webber, and it re-opened with new direction from Bill Kenwright. Set and costume designs were by Bob Crowley. The original London production received mostly negative reviews, but a subsequent Australian production featuring an entirely new design team and heavy revisions was generally better received, although the show finally closed with heavy discounting to tickets. A planned Broadway production, which was to have opened simultaneously with the West End run, was cancelled, the amount of negative press having deterred potential backers. Andrew Lloyd Webber first began plans for a sequel to his 1986 hit musical, ""The Phantom of"
"Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably ""The Music of the Night"" and ""All I Ask of You"" from ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""I Don't Know How to Love"
"of ""The Music of the Night"", from the play ""The Phantom of the Opera"". In 2007, D'Ambrosio introduced his show, ""Franc D'Ambrosio's Hollywood"", which was billed as is one man's humorous, nostalgic look at America's ""Dream Factories"" and the songs they immortalized. After debuting March 13, 2007, at the world-famous Empire Plush Room in San Francisco, the show toured the US. Franc D'Ambrosio Franc D'Ambrosio (born August 11, 1962 in Bronx, New York), is an American singer and actor, best known for his role in the stage version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera."" He also played"
"the Opera"", in 1990. Following a conversation with Maria Björnson, the designer of ""The Phantom of the Opera"", Lloyd Webber decided that, were a sequel to come about, it would be set in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. One of his ideas was to have the Phantom live above ground in Manhattan's first penthouse, but he rejected this when he saw a TV documentary about the Coney Island fairground. Lloyd Webber began collaborating with author Frederick Forsyth on the project, but it soon fell apart as Lloyd Webber felt the ideas they were developing would"
"with ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", to be ""at the summit of Lloyd Webber's achievement"", Chandler considers ""Love Never Dies"" ""badly judged"" and ""one of the oddest sequels in theatrical history, shaped by a peculiar love-hate relationship to its original. On one hand it shores up the position ""The Phantom of the Opera"" occupies as Lloyd Webber's central, defining musical; on the other it seems intent, in a rather Freudian way, on displacement, on destroying the authority of the earlier work"". Chandler takes issue with the incompatibility of the plot and character motivations expressed in ""Love Never Dies"" ""vis-à-vis"" those in the"
"looks terrific. There wasn't much Schumacher could have done with the story or the music he was handed, but in the areas over which he held sway, he has triumphed."" In contrasting between the popularity of the Broadway musical, Michael Dequina of ""Film Threat"" magazine explained that ""it conjures up this unexplainable spell that leaves audiences sad, sentimental, swooning, smiling—in some way transported and moved. Now, in Schumacher's film, that spell lives on."" The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film) The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 British–American musical drama film based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of"
"a rare-breed Turkish Van, climbed onto Lloyd Webber's Clavinova digital piano and managed to delete the entire score. Lloyd Webber was unable to recover any of it from the instrument, but was eventually able to reconstruct the score. In 2008, Lloyd Webber first announced that the sequel would likely be called ""Phantom: Once Upon Another Time"", and the first act was performed at his annual Sydmonton Festival. The Phantom was played by Ramin Karimloo and Raoul was played by Alistair Robbins. However, in September 2008, during the BBC's ""Birthday in the Park"" concert celebrating his 60th birthday, Lloyd Webber announced"
"along with the entire cast and creative teams including Michael Crawford. The production was recorded live and later released on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and digital download. The initial releases were in the UK on 14 November 2011. The digital download format was released three days earlier on 11 November. The North American release followed on 7 February 2012. The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall is a 2011 British film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"", which in turn was based"
"Freddie Trumper in the London revival of ""Chess"" for the English National Opera at the London Coliseum.. From 3 September - 8 December, 2018, he will play the role of the Phantom in the Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"" at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. He is also a regular guest soloist for concerts around the world, including Raymond Gubbay concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Abbey Road 80th Concert, the Halle Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium and France, the London Philharmonic, London Concert"
"financially successful entertainment event until ""The Lion King"" surpassed it in 2014. By 2011, it had been seen by over 130 million people in 145 cities across 27 countries, and continues to play in London and New York. In 1984, Lloyd Webber contacted Cameron Mackintosh, the co-producer of ""Cats"" and ""Song and Dance"", to propose a new musical. He was aiming for a romantic piece, and suggested Gaston Leroux's book ""The Phantom of the Opera"" as a basis. They screened both the 1925 Lon Chaney and the 1943 Claude Rains motion picture versions, but neither saw any effective way to"
"the theatre suitable for large-scale musical productions, and the theatre has specialised in hosting musicals. The theatre has been home to record-setting musical theatre runs, notably the First World War sensation ""Chu Chin Chow"" and the current production, Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera"", which has played continuously at Her Majesty's since 1986. The theatre was established by architect and playwright John Vanbrugh, in 1705, as the Queen's Theatre. Legitimate drama unaccompanied by music was prohibited by law in all but the two London patent theatres, and so this theatre quickly became an opera house. Between 1711 and"
"house next to the subterranean lake beneath the Paris Opera. In ""The Phantom of the Opera"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, ""Don Juan Triumphant"" figures prominently in the second act as an opera within a musical. It is, as stated before, a thinly veiled adaptation of Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"" which premiered in Prague in 1787, only told from Don Juan's point of view. In this version, the Phantom forces the opera company to stage his work and orders Christine, a Swedish soprano and his protege with whom he is in love, to be cast in the lead role. She reluctantly agrees"
"cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera"" as Raoul. In 1996, he joined the musical's national tour as the title role of the Phantom. In 2004, Brad joined the World Tour cast of the musical which toured Shanghai, Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore. He returned to the role in the current World Tour cast in 2012 for the third and subsequent seasons in Seoul, Bangkok, Singapore (current stop) and Shanghai. He is one of the only four men who have played the role of The Phantom over 2000 performances. In 2006, he had a solo concert"
"make the leap from film to stage. Later, in New York, Lloyd Webber found a second-hand copy of the original, long-out-of-print Leroux novel, which supplied the necessary inspiration to develop a musical: ""I was actually writing something else at the time, and I realised that the reason I was hung up was because I was trying to write a major romantic story, and I had been trying to do that ever since I started my career. Then with the Phantom, it was there!"" Lloyd Webber first approached Jim Steinman to write the lyrics because of his ""dark obsessive side"", but"
"Australia and in London's West End including ""Mamma Mia!"", ""Eureka"", ""The Far Pavilions"" and ""Imagine This"". He has performed in plays for Sydney Theatre Company and Royal National Theatre in the UK. In 2013/2014 he was in the original company of ""Rupert"" for Melbourne Theatre Company and toured the play to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He portrayed Raoul in the Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Love Never Dies"", the sequel to Lloyd Webber's highly successful ""The Phantom of the Opera"". Gleeson has appeared in numerous television series in Australia and the UK, most"
"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"
"to genuine emotional fervour. ... Erik is altogether more engaging and believable than the Lloyd-Webber skulker."" He stated that this makes the Beauty and the Beast theme ""credible and agonizing"", and that the father-son theme is even more ""moving in the agony of both loving and loathing the thing you have spawned."" Phantom (musical) Phantom is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit. Based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"", the musical was first presented in Houston, Texas in 1991. Although it has never appeared on Broadway and"
"developing a grand scale version of his Phantom in the West End, and offered to produce it. In fact, Hill and Lloyd Webber had worked together earlier on a revival of ""Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"" at the Winchester Theatre. Lloyd Webber and his producer, Cameron Mackintosh, had been highly enthusiastic when they broached Hill about his Phantom of the Opera. But in the end, Lloyd Webber chose to pursue the musical without Hill. ""Phantom of the Opera"" then emerged on the other side of the Atlantic in 1987 for its American premiere in St. Louis at the Repertory"
"Sydmonton Festival. Lloyd Webber received a Grammy Award in 1986 for ""Requiem"" in the category of best classical composition. ""Pie Jesu"" from Requiem achieved a high placing on the UK pop charts. Perhaps because of its large orchestration, live performances of the Requiem are rare. ""Cricket"" (1986), also called ""Cricket (Hearts and Wickets)"", reunited Lloyd Webber with Tim Rice to create this short musical for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday, first performed at Windsor Castle. Several of the tunes were later used for ""Aspects of Love"" and ""Sunset Boulevard"". Lloyd Webber also premiered ""The Phantom of the Opera"" in 1986, inspired"
"and 12, 2018 at Roy Thomson Hall alongside Stephanie J. Block. He reprised the role of the Phantom in May 2018 in a series of The Phantom of the Opera concerts held at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, Korea alongside Anna O´Byrne, as part of the celebration for Andrew Lloyd Webber´s 70th anniversary. He has also performed in Gold Coast, Australia June 16, 2018, Melbourne, Australia June 20, 2018, and in Sydney, Australia on June 23, 2018 again alongside Anna O'Byrne, followed by a special run of ""Evita"" in Tokyo, Japan from July 4 to the"
"of the music and most of the lyrics to the Tony-nominated musical ""Grand Hotel"" in 1989, which was Tony-nominated for best show, best score and another two Drama Desk Awards for music and lyrics. His musical version of the novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" entitled ""Phantom"" (not to be confused with Andrew Lloyd Webber's version) has enjoyed numerous productions in the U.S. and around the world. He has also written a number of other Off-Broadway musicals, including ""Death Takes a Holiday"", nominated for eleven Drama Desk Awards; ""December Songs"", a song cycle commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its centennial"
"as guest-star in the title role of """"The Phantom of the Opera"""" in Hamburg. Later in 1998 he succeeded in ""The Phantom of the Opera""-casting in Hamburg, which has been held on Broadway (New York City) by producer Harold Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He was chosen to play the ""Phantom"" as first cast in this musical at the theatre ""Neue Flora"", Hamburg, starting in January 1999 (production: Cameron Mackintosh Ltd., Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group and Stella Musical Company). He had concerts on Broadway (""Music of the Night"", 1998). At the beginning of 2002, Jerzy Jeszke played as"
"that deep inside we're good? And that is a character you cry for."" In 1984, British producer Ken Hill revived his 1976 musical ""Phantom of the Opera"" in England. This was not a big threat to Holder, Kopit and Yeston, since their musical was intended to play on Broadway. The real threat emerged through an announcement in ""Variety"", where an article was published concerning plans for a musical production of ""The Phantom of the Opera"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The rights to the novel were in the public domain in Great Britain. Holder only held the rights for two years"