Love Never Dies

After a great opening in London, an acclaimed first year and a partial redesign and rewrite, Love Never Dies takes its first step away from the Adelphi Theatre soon as the Australian production opens in Melbourne in June 2011.

Love Never Dies Australian Cast

Love Never Dies Australia Cast

The Australian Christine is to be played by a previous Christine from The Phantom Of The Opera. Anna O’Byrne has already played the part to great acclaim in an Australian tour of The Phantom of the Opera. Anna is an award-winning classically trained singer, and has performed as Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera and appeared in works by Mozart, Puccini and Ibert for The Victorian Opera, Victorian College of the Arts and Victorian Youth Opera.

The Phantom  in the new Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies is being played by Ben Lewis.

Ben’s previous stage credits include the original Australian cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical, Sir Galahad in the original Australian cast of Monty Python’s Spamalot, two-seasons as Count Carl-Magnus in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, Urinetown with Sydney Theatre Company and Polites in The Odyssey for Black Swan and the Malthouse.

Performances begin in Melbourne on May 29th 2011 at the Regent Theatre.

Love Never Dies is closing for four days in London from Monday 22nd to Thursday 25th November so that a number of changes can be made.  Performances will then resume again on Friday 26th November.

The reason for these drastic measures is to bring about what really amounts to a restaging of the show, with Bill Kenwright as the new Director and Bill Deamer the Choreographer instead of Jack O’Brien and Jerry Mitchell.

Love Never Dies in London  has also just extended its booking period by another two months at the Adelphi Theatre in London’s West End to 28th May 2011.

Love Never Dies heads for Australia in May 2011 premiering in Melbourne’s Regent Theatre.

Love Never Dies London Extension

While waiting to see what’s happening with the planned transfer of Love Never Dies to Broadway, the show in London has announced an extension with booking now available for tickets until March 2011.

Love Never Dies had been announced for a Broadway opening this spring with London leads Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo transferring to the Neil Simon Theatre, currently showing a Beatles Tribute show. But US reports say the British musical’s arrival this season is now very unlikely, so perhaps this freed up the stars to extend the London production. Love Never Dies with a new set and production has been mooted for Australia and then Toronto, before Broadway now. It seemed that some of the key people working on the Broadway production have defected to another show entirely, such is the musical theatre business!

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Love Never Dies Dates of Opening Shows

Now the exact dates can be revealed with the expected March and November openings for Love Never Dies in London and New York, and a year for Australia rather than Singapore.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long awaited new musical sequel to the Phantom of the Opera will have its global world premiere in London at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 9th March 2010, followed by New York USA on Thursday 11th November and in Australia in 2011.

Theatre Breaks to see Love Never Dies previews in London from February 20th 2010 are already on sale here from the Love Never Dies blog via Show and Stay

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