West End Theatre Breaks
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| Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, had its world premiere this week at the Adelphi Theatre. The performance was watched by a star studded audience as well as the all important press. |
TelegraphRating 4 Stars: Love Never dies is Andrew Lloyd Webber's finest show since the original Phantom of the Opera. "What I have no doubt about whatever is that this is Lloyd Webber's finest show since the original Phantom, with a score blessed with superbly haunting melodies and a yearning romanticism that sent shivers racing down my spine." | |
The GuardianRating 3 Stars: There is much to enjoy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical. The score is one of the composer's most seductive "There is much to enjoy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical. The score is one of the composer's most seductive. Bob Crowley's design and Jack O'Brien's direction have a beautiful kaleidoscopic fluidity. And the performances are good. The problems lie within the book, chiefly credited to Lloyd Webber himself and Ben Elton, which lacks the weight to support the imaginative superstructure." | |
The TimesRating 2 Stars "But then this Phantom is not the phantom we knew. The "poisoned gargoyle who burns in hell" has clearly taken an anger management course in New York... Where's the menace, the horror, the psychological darkness? For that I recommend a trip to Her Majesty's, not the Adelphi." | |
IndependentRating 5 Stars: Love Never Dies is phabulous! "This mix of the heart-stopping and the stomach-lurching (a true kinaesthetic experience) characterises some of the best sequences in Love Never Dies." | |
The Stage“As the show opens this week, the question on everyone’s lips is whether Lloyd Webber has pulled it off. The answer is yes, on the whole.” | |
UK TicketsRead full review here | |
10% Off Both ShowsTo celebrate the next chapter in the epic Phantom story, UKTickets is offering you the chance to see both The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies with 10% off, when you book both together. |
Posted by Joseph on Thursday 11th March 2010 at 12:24PM
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