Musical Theatre News: Love Never Dies Australian premiere in Melbourne in May 2011

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies will have its Australian premiere in Melbourne’s Regent Theatre in May 2011.

Lloyd Webber said the Australian production will have its own unique stamp, produced by his Asia Pacific representative Tim McFarlane and directed by Melbourne’s Simon Phillips with  a new design by Sydney based Gabriela Tylesova.

Nationwide auditions will begin on Monday October 25th - the same day tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster.

Ramin Karimloo who is playing the Phantom in Love Never Dies at London's Adelphi Theatre  recently announced that he will be leaving the show next year (no date yet fixed) to join the show when it opens in Toronto which is meant to be the pre-Broadway stop over.  Maybe he'll now be heading for Melbourne?

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Part speculation, but I doubt if Ramin Karimloo is doing the Autralian opening so soon before being committed to the Toronto production of Love Never Dies

Love Never Dies Tickets Competition!

We have some free tickets for Love Never Dies to give to you as a prize!

Are you free on Saturday night, 9th October? If so you can enter the competition here on the Love Never Dies blog and stand a very good chance of winning a pair of top price tickets for the Saturday Night performance at the Adelphi Theatre on London, with Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess – I’ve seen it and it’s by far the best show in London for the present, with beautiful music, spectacle, and set design. You’ll love it whether you’ve already seen Phantom of The Opera or not, makes no difference.

The top price tickets to this hugely popular musical theatre show have been kindly provided by TheatreBreaks.com

To enter the competition all you have to do is leave a comment here on this blog, saying why you’d like to see Love Never Dies on Saturday. You can post it either on this competition post below, or anywhere else on the blog within the next 23 hours starting from now, Friday 8th October at midday.

At 11.00am on Saturday, tomorrow, the day of the show, the winner will be chosen, notified by email by Saturday afternoon and two Love Never Dies tickets will be arranged to be collected from the box office with the lucky winners’ names on them!

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Stunning Love Never Dies Photos

These really are high quality pictures close up of the Love Never Dies cast on the stage at the Adelphi, I think and with a creative commons license too.

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taken by Estefania y Arantxa Álvarez:

A Tour of Coney Island

Coney Island, New York is the setting for Love Never Dies

The Coney Island chapter

We started the tour exactly where the second chapter of The Wonder City begins, and Justin filled us in:

The Coney Island you see now is physically very different from the one our main characters were looking at back then. A lot has changed, whether by the wrecking ball or fire. Coney Island today has been whittled down from America’s playland (think the Disney World of the 19th and early 20th centuries) to its lowest common denominator: a beach and a carnival spirit that still refuses to die.

Justin interlaced the sites, stories, and history of Coney Island with plot details of The Wonder City alongside a packet of charming draft illustrations by Courtney. 

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Coney Island as it was in the time that Love Never Die is set in. A lot has changed in New York island since then.

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Love Never Dies Musical CD Q & A

Q For all us singers out there, are there any good backing track CDs with all the songs from Love Never Dies we can sing along to? Having seen the fantastic musical theatre show in London I came away just buzzing with al the music and songs and I'd love to be able to add my own vocals with a little bit of guidance.

A With love never dies to re-record the love never dies CD with all the changes and a DVD of the show made with the original cast. it would mean that a lot of work needed to be done again. So I don't think we are likely to see a Love Never Dies the musical original cast CD any time soon.

Love Never Dies Reviews

There are plenty of Love Never Dies reviews out there, and more than a few are tainted by the negativity of the "phans" who just can't let go of their ove for teh original Phantom Of The Opera enough to cope with a sequel. It's a shame, and rather silly in my opinion.  One writer recently explained that they nearly passed up an opportunity to see the new production by Andrew Lloyd Webber's continuation of the Phantom of the Opera, called Love Never Dies. 

I allowed my cynisicm to get the better of me, thinking that there is no way that you can continue the magic of a classic. How wrong I was.

So luckily this person had an open enough mind to at least see the show, and allow themselves to be captivated by it. But how many others have missed the chance to appreciate Raol, Christine and The Phantom in a new setting?

As it turned out, it has been one of the best productions for a long time.  It is so refreshing to hear a new totally new original musical score that isn't a rehashing of something else. Well OK, there are some tunes of Webber's that may have had an outing in one or two of his less popular shows before , but that is the artist's privelidge. And he includes a classic rock opera signature into his musical composition which some may roll their eyes at, but it is something that is uniquely Webber that I adore.  He has been credited with bringing Opera to the masses.

Love Never Dies isn't one of the cheapest tickets in London's West End but you can definitely see the money up there on the stage. There are at least 30 cast members, with lots of costumes and special effects to keep you impressed.

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Love Never Dies + Phantom Ultimate Package

See the entire Phantom saga unfold and take in the sights of London with this two day package ideal for theatre-lovers.

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Ultimate Phantom Package

This is a really good package if you've ever dreamed of doing the ultimate - seeing both Love Never Dies AND the Phantom of The Opera in one indulgent London trip.

What's included

* Two nights at the 4-star Copthorne Tara Hotel
* Breakfast buffet
* Tickets for The Phantom of the Opera
* Tickets for Love Never Dies
* Champagne fight on the London Eye
* Dinner at Christopher's Restaurant

See what I mean? Do the whole thing Phantom / Love Never Dies thing in one intense weekend or maybe take it as a midweek break

Ultimate Phantom Package

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