Tickets to Love Never Dies, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that is the sequel to the renowned Phantom of the Opera will go on sale this coming Thursday.
The play opens in March of 2010 at the Adelphi Theatre, and will be the first musical sequel to be debuted on the West End Stage.
For those who are heavy with anticipation over the new play, the Really Useful Group Limited run by Andrew Lloyd Webber, has also launched a website for the play which contains a ‘teaser trailer; for the musical. Those who are interested can find the website at www.loveneverdies.com.
Webber also confirmed its release on the stage and a public announcement regarding Love Never Dies is expected to be made on October 8th, 2009.
The plot of the Phantom sequel is supposed to be set in New York at a theatre in Coney Island when Christine Daae returns with her husband Raoul to perform on a stage that is run by the ‘Maestro’ that affected their lives ten years earlier at the Paris Opera.
Since the Phantom of the Opera first debuted in 1988 it has grossed over $700m on Broadway and $5 billion worldwide which is the highest amount by any Broadway play in history.
It has since then been performed over 8,600 times and has a record high New York attendance of 12.5 million. In 2006 it became the longest show to run on the Broadway stage passing Cats and is still going strong with no sign of stopping.
