Love Never Dies

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.

Another great set of photographs by Estefania y Arantxa Álvarez, this time of Ramin Karimloo who plays the Phantom in Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre in London.

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!

A stunning set of photographs of Sierra Boggess as Christine in Love Never Dies, taken by photographer Estefania y Arantxa Álvarez and added to Flickr with a Creative Commons License.

A stunning set of photographs from an early performance of Love Never Dies taken by Estefania y Arantxa Álvarez:

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!

Neil Simon Theatre - not for Love Never Dies

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ramin Karimloo will be a guests on the Michael Ball Show on Friday September 10th.

Michael Ball will be hosting an exclusive interview with Webber about Love Never Dies as well as his production of The Wizard of Oz.

Ramin Karimloo of course plays the role of The Phantom in the Adelphi Theatre production of Love Never Dies.

The episode can be seen live on ITV1 on Friday September 10th at 3pm in the afternoon, or later on the ITV Player at : http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=the%20michael%20ball%20show
Michael Ball and Andrew Lloyd Webber have worked together many time in the past, for example when Michael played Raoul in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London, and Alex in Aspects of Love at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London and on Broadway.

Michael Ball DVDs

Sierra Boggess sang Love Never Dies for the massed musical theatre fans at West End Live last weekend, another wonderful performance by Sierra, and great publicity for the show.

Here’s a crowd video of the song courtesy of theatre breaks youTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTHqBoo_4tc

After Sierra, Ramin and one of the Gustav’s came on and sang a duet but I’ll leave that for another post.

Just look at the appreciative comments left about Sierra again:

• rayna181
  Beautiful. I swear i never get tired of? her gorgeous voice!!
• ChristineMeram
  i love this? song sooo much! breathtaking!
• Masq92
  cant wait till this comes? to new york
• PrettyEowyn
  Sierra dazzling, as ever. It is so sweet? and delicate! ^^
• dookydocs
  seen love never dies twice , Sierra got standing ovations on both? occasions. truly stunning
• zacmari12
  amazing! ?
• theAmandaBean
  She looks? and sounds like an angel!
• Ozcellenc2
  OH WOW!!!!
  She becomes better and better and better.?

  
  

Sierra Boggess sang Love Never Dies on BBC1′s Over the Rainbow show last night

The show is a casting competition for another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, The Wizard of Oz which opens in London in April 2011 with a Leading Lady – the part of Dorothy, chosen by the public. Sierra Boggess helped out with the final four contestants during the week giving them advice on singing, stamina, and the West End Leading Lady lifestyle which the lucky winner might expect.