LOVE NEVER DIES NY Transfer?

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 1:58pm

Are there still plans to bring the show to New York? After the Melbourne production possibly?

The show has it's faults, but I'd still like to see it live. The music is breathtaking.

Updated On: 5/21/11 at 01:58 PM

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 2:03pm

I sure hope so!!!!

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 2:06pm

I think that plan is for it to be very successful in Australia, then go on to Toronto, then Broadway, possibly with some of the original cast.

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 3:53pm

If and when it does come to Broadway, I sure hope that Sierra Boggess will play the female lead!

Also, does anybody know if the West End production is an open-ended run?

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 4:00pm

If they work on the show for ten years, which it would take to fix what I saw, Sierra will be closer but still not old enough to be Christine in this production.

[chernjam]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 4:34pm

Kyl3 - the London production is "open-ended" with tickets on sale through January 2012.

I'm not sure how things have changed in terms of contracts, etc. but initially I think Sierra and Ramin were signed/promised for a Broadway prodcution.

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 4:42pm

@chernjam---okay thanks! I will be studying abroad in London this Fall Semester and plan to go see War Horse and Love Never Dies there!

[Leonardo2]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 4:45pm

I'm sure there'll be a Broadway announcement once the Melbourne production is officially opened. I agree with the poster above... it should run a couple months in Toronto first and then transfer to Broadway. Ramin and Sierra certainly have first dibs but its up to them whether or not they take the roles again.

[roadmixer]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 6:37pm

This show SHOULD be transferred to a dumpster.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 6:39pm

Roadmixer, I believe the song "Don't Rain on my Parade" was aimed at people like you.

[charlesjguiteau]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 6:59pm

For whatever it's worth, we thought the London production we saw last Christmas was one of those real WHY musicals as Arthur Laurents would have put it (just before he would have let loose with much bitchier comments).

LND was a show devoted to the build-up of one single song in Act II (the Phantom's long-intended come-back song for Christine to sing). The rest of the show was pure padding till we got to the song and then the song itself made no sense lyrically and left absolutely no impression musically. Can't even begin to tell you how the tune went, which is shocking for Lloyd Weber. Perfectly swell cast and ridiculously over-the-top sets were the only real entertainment we got out of the evening. WHY do it in the first place? WHY spend the money to have it be killed by the NY critics? I'd rather see a revival of "Aspects of Love" or even "Whistle on the Wind" if ALW wants to put his stamp back on Broadway.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/21/11 at 9:57pm

After its Melbourne run, it is booked to play Sydney and Brisbane, then its planned to tour Asia.

[The Scorpion]

Posted: 5/22/11 at 2:46pm

LND was a show devoted to the build-up of one single song in Act II (the Phantom's long-intended come-back song for Christine to sing). The rest of the show was pure padding till we got to the song and then the song itself made no sense lyrically and left absolutely no impression musically. Can't even begin to tell you how the tune went, which is shocking for Lloyd Weber. Perfectly swell cast and ridiculously over-the-top sets were the only real entertainment we got out of the evening. WHY do it in the first place? WHY spend the money to have it be killed by the NY critics? I'd rather see a revival of "Aspects of Love" or even "Whistle on the Wind" if ALW wants to put his stamp back on Broadway.

Yes, Laurents would have hated the show. He said time and time again that no matter how good the score is, if the book is bad, then you have no show. To me this sums up Love Never Dies very accurately.

As for the 'come back' song, I think it's a very pretty melody and find myself humming it often (or at least a variation of it, if not the disturbingly similar-sounding theme from The Apartment), but for me it fails on three counts: a) the fact that the title song for ALW's 'come back' show is recycled; I can't mentally dissociate it from The Beautiful Game; b) though undeniably pretty, I don't think it's something the Phantom would write; it is the sort of tune he would mock -- where is the avant-garde Phantom who wrote in dissonant whole-tone scales as in Phantom? Did he lose his talent as well as his love in the intermittent 10 years?; and c) those...lyrics. Not the worst in the show, but it's got about every cliché in the book... And who puts in the word "infiltrates" into a love song?

I wonder if Jack O'Brien can and will prevent this show from going to Broadway as he told a UK newspaper recently.

[roadmixer]

Posted: 5/22/11 at 11:32pm

Yo... Clap Yo'... since you don't know me I don't know how you can talk about "people like me". I was stating my opinion so please let me have one. I didn't call you out for thinking that the show is good which I assume that you do. Thanks.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 5/22/11 at 11:36pm

If it does not make MAJOR changes then the show will end up like "We Will Rock You," which also played both the West End and Australia but never made it to Broadway.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 1:21am

if not the disturbingly similar-sounding theme from The Apartment

So true

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 4:28am

I wonder if Jack O'Brien can and will prevent this show from going to Broadway as he told a UK newspaper recently.

Is this true? More importantly, can he actually do this? Is there justification?

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 8:59am

Please take the UK production so we have a theatre free for a better show

[JRybka]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 9:33am

I still am very certain that the show would actually do well if they threw out all talk of Phantom and just turned it into a love triangle... It would be a great show. But alas they must do "phantom 2"

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 9:40am

Has the "Lord" written a bunch of new songs for this like Bono and the Edge did for SPIDEY 2.0?

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 10:27am

I'd be okay with the show if they changed the characters into original ones and lost the Phantom sequel aspect.

[MenzelManiac]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 2:58pm

Well, as long as Webber promised a Broadway transfer to Sierra Bogess, I'm sure she has nothing to worry about.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 3:48pm

He also "promised" (actually there was a contract) Patti LuPone that she would bring SUNSET BOULEVARD to Broadway. you know how that worked out.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 7:12pm

"Has the "Lord" written a bunch of new songs for this like Bono and the Edge did for SPIDEY 2.0?"

He doesn't need to.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/23/11 at 7:49pm

Oh yes he does