{"product_id":"love-never-dies-cast-recording2-cd","title":"Love Never Dies (Cast Recording)[2 CD]","description":"From the Artist\n\n\"Love Never Dies\" Question and Answer with Andrew Lloyd Webber\nTell us about the story of \"Love Never Dies\" I have to be careful about what I say about this story because it has so many twists and I don‟t want to give it away. But, what I can say is it‟s set in America 10 years roughly after the original \"Phantom\" and is set in Coney Island. Coney Island is a fantastic place - Sigmund Freud once described it as the \"only reason to go to the United States.‟ It was beyond anything that anybody had ever seen - the great eighth wonder of the world and it was the place where all the freaks and oddities went and of course the \"Phantom‟ could be absorbed in there. Now, our story finds him 10 years afterwards and he‟s gone to Coney Island. He‟s gone with Madame Gieru, his old friend, he‟s gone with Meg, her daughter, and he‟s now the big mogul of Coney and is now running the whole place and that‟s where our story starts.\nWhy did you decide to follow \"The Phantom of the Opera\" and why now? I‟ve often thought that we left the original \"Phantom\" with a little bit of a cliff hanger and I thought, well, why not to do a sequel to it at one point. It took a very long time coming. I mean quite frankly, I thought about it 15 years ago, perhaps a little bit more. At that time I‟d come up with the idea about the \"Phantom‟ going to America and I talked about it with Freddy Forsyth, the novelist who obviously wrote things like \"The Day of the Jackal‟ - a very very successful and fine writer. We talked about it and we came up with a plot which he subsequently published as a little book called \"The Phantom of Manhattan‟ but it just simply didn‟t gel for me and I couldn‟t find a way through it and it was left alone. The only one thing that I took away from the book would be this time the \"Phantom‟ would live above everything and he shouldn‟t live below like he did underneath the opera house. So, I abandoned it frankly and I forgot about it. But, about three years ago I thought about it and came back and I thought \"you know, there is the germ of an idea here‟ and I worked on it again with a couple of writers and again it didn‟t happen. But, I then worked with Ben Elton on a project and Ben who is a very very clever story teller said \"you know what - this whole thing is really all cuckoo - you‟ve got a fantastic basis this idea of him going to America, the idea of him perhaps going to Coney Island, it‟s wonderful but you‟re not developing all of the original characters, you‟re not taking them with you, you‟re putting in new characters and I‟m going to do a plot which comes up with the original characters transported.‟ So, we have all of the five: \"Raoul‟ and \"Christine‟, \"Meg‟, \"Madam Giry‟ and \"The Phantom.‟ They all appear in our piece and there‟s only one new character who‟s a 10-year old child of Christine and Raoul‟s called Gustave and that‟s what we came up with. Now, I‟m not going to give the story away but Ben unlocked it. I‟m very story driven and anybody who writes for musical theatre has to be very story driven and I couldn‟t write it when the story wasn‟t right. But the moment I had this outline, which was about just over 18 months ago, I was away and so the first thought was \"who‟d be a really great lyricist for this?‟ Everyone had been telling me about Glenn Slater, who wrote the notes for the \"Little Mermaid\" and who‟s written \"Sister Act\" now, and we clicked immediately so we got started.\nTell us about the two leads you have cast Our lead is the present \"Phantom‟ in London who‟s been playing it for a long time and has been a really popular and very sexy \"Phantom,‟ I have to say, called Ramin Karimloo and he‟s just great. We‟ve just finished the recording of the complete album and it‟s all done now, unusually for a show. Our other principal, Sierra Boggess, who played the \"Little Mermaid‟ in New York, I‟ve known for a while. She also played Christine as a young girl - well, she‟s very young now - but she was only 21 when she played \"Christine‟ in Vegas for me in the Las Vegas version of \"Phantom.\" She‟s a terrific actress and having just now recorded the whole thing and finished it I know they are an incredible fit. The passion that there is between the two of them, it‟s almost unbearable at sometimes -- it‟s so strong.\nHow will \"Love Never Dies\" roll out internationally? Originally we thought that we‟d roll out \"Love Never Dies\" internationally very quickly and in fact we thought about doing three production at the same time. We drew back from that because I wasn‟t absolutely certain that we could cast it sufficiently well immediately like that. I thought that we must get the initial cast completely right which is why we‟ve got this unique thing of an album already recorded which contains our original cast and I don‟t think that‟s ever been done before. We are going to open in London in March, then in New York in November. All the plans now are pretty advanced for certainly the Far East, Canada is wa\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B002S0OBMS\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B002S0OBMS.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. 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