LOVE NEVER DIES LIVE. CD March 2010. Broadway November 2010. SAMPLE TRACK.

[binau]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 6:01am

http://www.loveneverdies.com/

See website for ticket prices you can buy now. Start at $81 USD for the stalls with prices as cheap as $37 USD in the upper circle.


Sample (instrumental) track:

http://cloudfront.loveneverdies.com/ConeyIslandWaltz.mp3

It sounds similar to the bit we heard on the earlier 'trailer' [all instrumental]. Heavily orchestrated. Cringeworthy scream at end.

" World Premiere in London at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 9 March 2010 followed by New York on Thursday 11 November and in Australia in 2011."

If you pre-order the CD you also get a sample track, not sure if it's different to the one above. March 2010 release is AGES though.


Cast: Christine=Sierra Boggess

Phantom = Ramin Karimloo

Updated On: 10/8/09 at 06:01 AM

[Devious]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 6:48am

It was okay. Not too big of a fan.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 6:55am

It sounds like the score for a bizarre horror film. I LOVE IT! But is it just me or can I hear snatches from "Salome" in "Sunset Boulevard" and the Fairground sequence from the film?

But...AWESOME work on Andrew's behalf! Let's just hope the rest of the show is this decent.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 6:57am

I think the music is really pretty.

[rabymon10]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:15am

Really digging it, sounds to be incredibly lush orchestrations, but Woman in White much? I mean, really? Really Andrew? It was just your last newly staged show...

Other than that, put me into the party whose curiosity is piqued and might just be looking forward to the show.

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:21am

I like it. But I liked it in the trailer. :)

Wish we could have gotten some actual singing, though.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:26am

Eh, it was okay. Sounds like the orchestrations for an epic movie.

[jacobp]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:26am

I know the track record for sequels and I know there are some holes to the plot and plot points we've heard about, but I think this music sounds fantastic. I have a feeling Andrew Lloyd Webber will be laughing his ass off when the naysayers realize this is one of his best. But I'm keeping a steady eye on this and keeping an open mind.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:37am

This is exactly what I warned the naysayers about, and I'm not the opposite, just neutral.

Be sure to watch the video announcement at the website. It's about to appear but it's running a little late. The media's already saying Ramin sang a Phantom song at the presentation. No titles though...

Updated On: 10/8/09 at 08:37 AM

[binau]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:49am

Mm waiting for the video.

They could have time to fix up the artwork though.


I also hope this doesn't become too cheesy by taking itself so seriously though. (I guess that's kind of the first too, but I mean if we're expecting improvement)

Updated On: 10/8/09 at 08:49 AM

[binau]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:53am

The press launch is up!!

[binau]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:56am

LOL Andrew Lloyd Webber is presenting. Looking Hawt Andrew haha awkward 'cute'. God I should stop.

The preview track/'Waltz' appears to be the opening of the show.

Updated On: 10/8/09 at 08:56 AM

[James885]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:05am

The "Coney Island Waltz" instrumental sample is pretty nice. I'd love to hear the concept album when it comes out. I am curious to see how this show turns out, despite the cheesiness of some of the plot details.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:10am

The Phantom's first song "TILL I HEAR YOU SING..." First impressions? Completely captivated! But it felt more like an Alan Menken song than an Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[binau]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:10am

The performance is a 'produced' music-video ish lol

LYRICS:

The day starts
The day ends
Time crawls by
Night stealing(?)
Pacing the floor
The moment's creep yet I can't bear to sleep
Till I hear you sing
And weeks past, and months past
seasons fly
still you don't walk through the door
and in a hate I count the silent days
till I hear you sing once more
and sometimes and nighttime I dream that you are there
But wake holding nothing but the empty air
and eves come and leaves go
Time runs dry
Still I ache down to the core
My broken soul can't be alive and whole tell I hear you sing once more
and music your music, it teases in my ear
It turns and it fades away and you're not hear
Let hopes past. Let dreams past. Let them die
without you what are they for.
I'll always feel no more than halfway real
Till I hear you sing once more

[Sorry I can't structurally rewrite the lyrics for crap, I'm not sure 100% sure about some lines e.g. 4th]

Sounds like it could be a Disney cartoon musical to me.


" But it felt more like an Alan Menken song than an Andrew Lloyd Webber."

YES OMG. I was thinking this could be a cut song to Aladdin.

Updated On: 10/8/09 at 09:10 AM

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:14am

Thanks for the lyrics! Thoughts everybody? Well, musically, my doubts are starting to disappear. But it takes a lot more than pretty music to pull off something this daring!

And Andrew was so nervous!!!

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:29am

Is the video all live? If I missed it, did I miss it forever??

Some of us have places to be at 8 in the morning.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:32am

I believe the video is still there, able to be watched whenever and wherever. My problem is, I want to download and keep it because surely it will disappear from the website before the show opens.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:32am

It already took place 11:30 a.m. in England.

[James885]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:54am

I just watched the press conference video. Thought "Till I Hear You Sing Once More" was very good. But it does sound like something Alan Menken would write. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Now I'm really curious to hear the rest of the score.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:57am

When I first opened the website, I thought the album release date was November...then I read March. I was, like, awwww! The wait on this project has been too long already. I just want to know if it's good or bad. But, so far, "The Heart is Slow to Learn", "Coney Island Waltz" and now this one have NOT disappointed me. I wonder what the other songs "Fortune Teller" and "Move into the Darkness" I've heard talk about are like?

EDIT: Did anybody else find it interesting that the late beautiful Maria Bjornson sort of gave Andrew this idea in the first place? Interesting how she contrasted the depths of the Paris Opera to the heights of the New York skyscrapers etc.

Updated On: 10/8/09 at 09:57 AM

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:10am

Eh, it was okay. Sounds like the orchestrations for an epic movie.

The first thing I thought of when I heard it was the theme to "Lawrence of Arabia."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBFRfYiDNE#t=0m36s

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:30am

The music is very kitschy. Yes, it sounds like movie music. The waltz sounds like Erich Korngold circa 1940 and the ballad sounds like John Barry. The music doesn't evoke the 1920's at all.

At least there's no backbeat anywhere. That's progress.

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:32am

I actually have flashbacks to the Carousel Waltz (from Carousel) when I hear it. I mean, it's the same sort of idea. A waltz about a creepy amusement park.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 12:12pm

The music doesn't evoke the 1920's at all.

It's not set in the 20s