Stars Flock To Love Never Dies Premiere

Gerard Butler, Elaine Paige and Sir Michael Caine were among the big names who flocked to the world premiere of Love Never Dies. The musical at London’s Adelphi theatre by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is the sequel to his 1986 hit The Phantom of the Opera.
Set ten years after the original, the story finds the Phantom after his mysterious disappearance from the Paris Opera House. Lloyd Webber created the production with the help of comic and writer Ben Elton, who fine-tuned the synopsis. Early reviews have been fairly savage, with one theatre blog renaming it “Paint Never Dries.”
Musical legend Lloyd Webber is ignoring the online hype. He said: ” If everybody worried about those, you’d go back to the days of Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera – if there’d have been the net then, you’d have almost given up. At the Phantom of the Opera we had one night when the chandelier didn’t move.”
Love Never Dies is set to open in New York later in the year and in Australia in 2011.