RECENT PRESS ARTICLES ON LOVE NEVER DIES

An Australian re-working of Love Never Dies has made the Phantom sequel and unmissable event.

Love Never Dies star, Ben Lewis reveals what it takes to play the Phantom.

When the Australian production of Love Never Dies opened in Melbourne last May, it's composer Andrew Lloyd Webber described it as "the finest I could ever, ever hope for."

...this production by Simon Phillips is ravishing.

The English composer and impresario is here, at The Regent Theatre, to take his first look at the set.

"There's one eye popping scene after scene. It's a stunning score that has all the hallmarks of Andrew Lloyd Webber and more..."

"I've never seen anything like it in the theatre before...it's original, very European and brilliant."

He came, he saw and his verdict: "absolutely extraordinary". That was Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's first impression of the Melbourne set for his stage musical Love Never Dies when he visited the set on Friday.

…from shy Melbourne schoolgirl to Melbourne’s new leading lady.

…why not let Tim McFarlane and his Australian colleagues create a new sequel? The composer agreed.

The face of the new Phantom has been revealed. Ben Lewis yesterday shows off a prototype of the mask…

Ben Lewis may have a rich musical heritage but it was not always inevitable he would follow in his family’s footsteps.

…two newcomers have been names to play the Phantom and Christine…

The creative team for the all-Australian production is in place and all that's needed now is to find the stars.

MELBOURNE'S status as Australia's natural home for musical theatre has taken a big leap forward with the decision by English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber to choose it as the home for a new production of his sequel to the world's most successful show, The Phantom of the Opera.

Andrew Lloyd Webber will unmask a new production of his Phantom of the Opera sequel Love Never Dies at Melbourne's Regent Theatre in May 2011.

Investigations have revealed that the negative postings are part of an orchestrated hate campaign run by a handful of obsessive Phantom fans who believe Lord Lloyd Webber should have left the original alone.

Dazzling, thrilling, ravishing...Simon Phillips reaches for superlatives when he talks about Love Never Dies

Mebourne has stolen the march on Sydney yet again, with the premiere of another musical blockbuster.