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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MOVIE TV

In March 2007, he announced he would be moving forward with the project.

Lloyd Webber was pleased with Elton's treatment and began work on the sequel. Elton's treatment of the story focused more on the original characters of The Phantom of the Opera and omitted new characters that Lloyd Webber and Forsyth had developed. 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 Webber's initial ideas. However, he still did not feel the ideas he had were adaptable into a piece of musical theatre. Lloyd Webber returned to the project in 2006, collaborating with a number of writers and directors. 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 began collaborating with author Frederick Forsyth on the project, but it soon fell apart as Lloyd Webber felt the ideas they were developing would be difficult to adapt for a stage musical.

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MOVIE TV

One of his ideas was to have Phantom live above ground in Manhattan's first penthouse, but he rejected this when he saw a TV documentary about the Coney Island fairground. 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. 9.1.2 Audience and other assessmentsĪndrew Lloyd Webber first began plans for a sequel to his 1986 hit musical, The Phantom of the Opera, in 1990.

7.3 Melbourne and subsequent productions.

The planned Broadway production, which was to have opened simultaneously with the West End run, was delayed and then indefinitely postponed. The original London production received mostly negative reviews, however, the subsequent Australian production featuring an entirely new design team and heavy revisions was generally better received. Set and costume designs were by Bob Crowley.

It was originally directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, however the show closed for four days in November 2010 for substantial re-writes, which were overseen by Lloyd Webber, and it opened with new direction from Bill Kenwright. The musical opened at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End on 9 March 2010 with previews from 22 February 2010. Christine Daaé is invited to perform at Phantasma, a new attraction in Coney Island, by an anonymous impresario and, with her husband Raoul and son Gustave in tow, journeys to Brooklyn, unaware that it is the Phantom who has arranged her appearance in the popular beach resort.Īlthough Lloyd Webber began working on Love Never Dies in 1990, it was not until 2007 that he began writing the music. The musical is set in 1907, which Lloyd Webber states is, "ten years roughly after the end of the original Phantom," although the events of the original actually took place in 1881. It is a sequel to Lloyd Webber's long-running musical The Phantom of the Opera. Love Never Dies is a romantic musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater with additional lyrics by Charles Hart, and book by Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton, with additional material by Slater and Frederick Forsyth.