04 Sep 2009
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| photo by Aubrey Reuben |
Tickets for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the long-aborning sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, will go on sale Oct. 8, according to a report in London's Daily Mail, with performances scheduled to begin at the West End's Adelphi Theatre in March 2010.
Though no formal announcement has been made of the show's schedule, the Daily Mail reports that rehearsals will now begin early in January 2010. According to the paper, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyricist Glenn Slater, director Jack O'Brien, designer Bob Crowley, choreographer Jerry Mitchell, lighting designer Paule Constable and other members of the creative team have been working on and off for a year on the show.
This week they were locked away at the Adelphi, as Crowley and his operatives worked on a series of illusions and special effects. Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports, "The composer told me that he wanted technical problems sorted out now, rather than early next year. 'I don't want to get to the eve of the first preview and find we're being held up by some illusion,' he said."
The marketing campaign will be launched with the Phantom making announcements on Twitter beginning Sept. 7.
As previously reported in the Daily Mail, Ramin Karimloo and The Little Mermaid's Sierra Boggess, who have both starred in various incarnations of Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, will head the cast of the sequel to that international hit.
