Description
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Love Never Dies - Phantom / Lyrics: Glenn Slater / Conducted by Simon Lee / 2 disc Audio SET 2010
UPC 602527348322
MADE IN EU
MADE in HUNGARY
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 this as a sequel—it's a stand-alone piece." He later clarified: "Clearly, it is a sequel, but I really do not believe that you have to have seen Phantom of the Opera to understand Love Never Dies." Glenn Slater subsequently explained that Lloyd Webber "didn’t view it as a sequel as much as 'a second story with these characters'". 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.
In the show, Christine Daaé is invited by Oscar Hammerstein I for her American debut, until an anonymous impresario contracts her to perform at Phantasma, a new attraction on Coney Island. With her husband Raoul and son Gustave in tow, she journeys to Brooklyn, unaware that it is actually "The Phantom" who has arranged her appearance in the popular beach resort.
The Company
The Phantom - Ramin Karimloo
Christine Daaé, - Sierra Boggess
Madame Giry - Sally Dexter
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny - Joseph Millson
Meg Giry - Summer Strallen
Gustave - Charlie Manton
Fleck - Niamh Perry
Squelch - Adam Pearce
Gangle - Adam Jones
ENSEMBLE
Will Barratt, Lorraine Chappell, Gareth Chart, Nadine Cox, Christopher Dickins, Meshell Dillon
Kelley Dorney, Helen George, Nic Greenshields, Emma Harris, Luke Kempner, Caroline Kief
Janet Mooney, Chris Overton, Andrew Playfoot
Tober Reilly, David Roberts, Ricky Rojas, Rachel Spurrell, Savannah Stevenson
Tracklist:
| Prologue | 4:10 |
| The Coney Island Waltz | 3:34 |
| "That's The Place That You Ruined, You Fool!" | 0:38 |
| Heaven By The Sea | 1:52 |
| Only For Him / Only For You | 3:53 |
| The Aerie | 1:44 |
| 'Til I Hear You Sing | 4:19 |
| Giry Confronts The Phantom / 'Til I Hear You Sing (Reprise) | 4:33 |
| Christine Disembarks | 2:28 |
| Arrival Of The Trio - "Are You Ready To Begin?" | 1:49 |
| "What A Dreadful Town!..." | 2:28 |
| Look With Your Heart | 4:33 |
| Beneath A Moonless Sky | 7:33 |
| Once Upon Another Time | 2:50 |
| "Mother Please, I'm Scared!" | 1:15 |
| Dear Old Friend | 6:12 |
| Beautiful | 3:32 |
| The Beauty Underneath | 4:35 |
| The Phantom Confronts Christine | 7:22 |
| Entr'acte | 3:17 |
| Why Does She Love Me? | 6:38 |
| Devil Take The Hindmost | 3:51 |
| Heaven By The Sea (Reprise) | 2:28 |
| "Ladies...Gents!" / The Coney Island Waltz (Reprise) | 1:23 |
| Bathing Beauty | 4:03 |
| "Mother, Did You Watch?" | 1:16 |
| Before The Performance | 9:32 |
| Devil Take The Hindmost (Quartet) | 2:55 |
| Love Never Dies | 6:10 |
| "Ah Christine!..." | 2:29 |
| "Gustave! Gustave!..." | 4:58 |
| "Please Miss Giry, I Want To Go Back..." | 14:21 |
