Love Never Dies Title Song

[grandpianoalex]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 5:40pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKjrCHfEik

:46-:53...the title song from ALW's Phantom sequel.

sound familiar? check this out:

:10-:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIv7fbpqiUE

yeah....

[James885]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 5:47pm

"Love Never Dies" also sounds similar to the theme from The Apartment.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 9:09pm

Well obviously, ALW was high, watched free willy, and those notes were in his subconscious. at least, thats how I rationalize it.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 9:13pm

Wow... that is odd.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 9:16pm

Ha, that's weird. For some reason, it also reminds me of "We Are The Champions." I think the "no time for losers" part.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 9:19pm

It's only four notes. I believe you need seven for a legitimate legal case. This is going to happen often though as there are a few sections of the Love Never Dies score that remind me of other songs. Some by Webber and some not.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 9:46pm

Is it just me or does 'Heaven By The Sea' sound a bit like 'Col. Buffalo Bill' from Annie Get Your Gun?

I think it's probably me, but just wanted to know. I listened to it for an hour tonight at rehearsal tonight so that may be why...

[elphaba.scares.me]

Posted: 3/10/10 at 6:39pm

Just watched this clip and Sierra sounds gorgeous. Liked the song better as "Our Kind of Love" and wonder how the hell the reworked "Beautiful Game" will stand up without its best song. But anyway...

But let me get this straight. Sarah Brightman was 28, I believe, when the original Phantom opened. This one takes place ten years later, so they cast...a 27-year old who was playing...what, 18 years old two seasons ago?

Perhaps the show should be retitled "The Phantom, His Amazing Time Machine, His Singing Obsession And Her Picture Of Dorian Gray."

I'm just saying.

[stuckinoz]

Posted: 3/10/10 at 7:00pm

Legally, it has to be 8 notes copied before you can sue.

[neal1b]

Posted: 3/10/10 at 7:25pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber is the best composer EVER. Did it every occur to any of you haters that the tunes to The Apartment and Free Willy were stolen FROM Lloyd Webber???

[grandpianoalex]

Posted: 3/10/10 at 10:36pm

hahahahahaha. You've got to be kidding me. Best composer ever? Not a chance. And considering Free Willy was out 17 years ago, compared to Love Never Dies out a week ago... yeah, I bet they stole it from Llyod Webber.

[elphaba.scares.me]

Posted: 3/10/10 at 11:19pm

oh, ALEX.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 3/11/10 at 12:48am

It was a joke!

[Robert Taylor]

Posted: 3/11/10 at 2:12am

All joking aside, the beginning of "Beneath a Moonless Sky" sounds uncannily like the finale of "A Nightmare Before Christmas."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD0-9pJUdTc

Put the clip at about 1:20 and then listen to the beginning of the track on "Love Never Dies."

[Soliantu]

Posted: 3/11/10 at 2:41am

whatever, I love it lol

[Robert Taylor]

Posted: 3/11/10 at 6:12pm

It's a good score overall, but it's still very troubling to hear the similarities between the melodies.

[theevilgumby]

Posted: 3/11/10 at 10:14pm

Im kinda like the quartet devil take the hindmost better then regular one. kinda groovy.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 3/11/10 at 10:33pm

I've heard "Beneath the Moonless Sky" is a lot like a song from The Woman in White? I'm not really familiar with the latter so I can't say, myself.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/11/10 at 10:59pm

Love never dies once it is in you? I think Glenn Slater is intentionally attempting to arouse me, but because it's Glenn Slater it's not really working.
Updated On: 3/13/10 at 10:59 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/12/10 at 11:14am

Similarities occur everywhere in music as there are simply a finite number of note combinations. And most composers recycle to some extent. Berstein's iconic three-note motif in the West Side Story prologue first appeared in Candide, for which some of West Side Story's tunes were originally written.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/13/10 at 11:03pm

I finally figured out what "The Beauty Underneath" reminds me of. It's "Salome" from Sunset Boulevard. Compare the two...

"When the dark unfolds its wings
do you sense the strangest things?"

"I want someone with a knack.
Not just any studio hack."

That's been bugging me for days.

[piperlacyboo]

Posted: 3/14/10 at 1:35am

But let me get this straight. Sarah Brightman was 28, I believe, when the original Phantom opened. This one takes place ten years later, so they cast...a 27-year old who was playing...what, 18 years old two seasons ago?

elphaba.scares.me, she's actually the right age. christine is 18 in the first one and 28 in the second. the real age issue is that ramin looks so young and yet the phantom should be at least as old as madame giry. i love his voice, but he looks so young in the press pics. i hope it doesn't read that way on stage. anyway, it only makes sense to compare an actor's age to the character, not to another actor who played the role.

[Director =)]

Posted: 3/14/10 at 12:32pm

Christine is supposed to be 18 in the original?? Dang, none of the actresses seem to pull it off that young. I thought somewhere in the early to mid 20s.

[jovie27]

Posted: 3/14/10 at 11:18pm

I got my CD today..listening to it now...my came unwrapped...did anyone else get theirs unwrapped?