| Love Never Dies Deluxe Edition | 
| Artist: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 001403700
UPC: 602527248011
EAN: 0602527248011
ASIN: B002S0OBN2
Release Date: March 9, 2010
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Prologue | | • | The Coney Island Waltz | | • | That's the place you ruined, you fool | | • | A Little Slice of Heaven | | • | Only For Him / Only For You | | • | The Aerie | | • | `Til I Hear You Sing | | • | Giry Confronts The Phantom / Are you Ready to Begin | | • | Christine Disembarks | | • | Arrival of the Trio / Are You Ready to Begin | | • | What A Dreadful Town | | • | Look With Your Heart | | • | Beneath A Moonless Sky | | • | Once Upon Another Time | | • | Mother please, I'm scared | | • | Dear Old Friend | | • | Beautiful | | • | The Beauty Underneath | | • | The Phantom confronts Christine |
Disc 2
| • | Entr'acte | | • | Why Does She Love Me | | • | Devil Take The Hindmost | | • | A Little Slice of Heaven (Reprise) | | • | Ladies... / The Coney Island Waltz (Reprise) | | • | Bathing Beauty | | • | Mother, did you watch? | | • | Before The Performance | | • | Devil Take The Hindmost (Quartet) | | • | Love Never Dies | | • | Ah, Christine! | | • | Gustave! Gustave! | | • | Please,Miss Giry, I want to go back... |
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Album Description
A Must Have For Collectors! This is the 2CD/DVD Deluxe Edition of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies musical. It's a Special Deluxe Limited Edition 2CD complete cast recording; Bonus DVD with interviews and filmed footage nicely bound 40 page booklet. Behind the scenes at the soundtrack recording sessions in London and interviews with Andrew Lloyd Webber, award-winning set designer Bob Crowley and the stars of the show. PLUS "Coney Island Waltz" music video - featuring this haunting piece of music set to stirring archival film footage of The glory days of Coney Island. A "must have" for collectors. Andrew Lloyd Webber's long awaited new show "LOVE NEVER DIES" will have its World Premiere in London at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 9 March 2010, followed by New York on Thursday 11 November and Australia in 2011. "LOVE NEVER DIES" continues the story of `The Phantom', who has moved from his lair in the Paris Opera House to haunt the fairgrounds of Coney Island, far across the Atlantic. Set ten years after the mysterious disappearance of `The Phantom' from Paris, this show is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue...in which music and memory can play cruel tricks...and `The Phantom' sets out to prove that, indeed, "LOVE NEVER DIES".
Album Description
Limited deluxe three disc (2CD/DVD) edition comes housed in a nicely bound 40 page book and includes bonus DVD that contains interviews with the cast and filmed footage. 2010 release, the original cast recording of the long-awaited sequel to Phantom Of The Opera. Set 10 years after the mysterious disappearance of 'The Phantom' from Paris, this show is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue, as the 'The Phantom' sets out to prove that, indeed, Love Never Dies.
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 Hello Erik, goodby Phantom March 9, 2010
Antonio Acuna (London, UK)
37 out of 45 found this review helpful
I saw the first ever public performance of the show (lucky me, but not for others, the first one was canceled, mine turned out to be THE first one)How to start addressing this show...with tact:
Let me start by saying that the story is not as strong as the original, none of the Gothic gore implied by The Phantom, this is a more human one. The phantom is not below anymore, but towers above, in a penthouse overlooking Coney Island. He can now 'walk amongst man' another freak in a permanent freak show. Hence, the phantom we meet here is less mysterious, his torment more complex, not just obsession, but vulnerability. The story falters at times, I must admit it, yet the show is beautifully done and manages to move you and close the chapter.
The music
1. Prologue
2. The Coney Island Waltz
3. That's the place that you ruined, you fool!
---A terrible opening for a show, akin to the dreadful opening to the woman in white (a show that should not have existed and has been mercifully musically remade into Love never dies). The saving grace is the Waltz and its marvelous projections (on the show) a lovely piece, truly pure Webber. That's the place you ruined, fool and prologue could go amiss and no one will notice.
4. Heaven By The Sea
---- nice song, a touch out of place with the darker more romantic music, but attempting to capture the banality and lightheartedness of the time and the society in NY at the time. It serves its purpose, the core musical theme being lifted mainly from a repetitive melodic phrase used to death in woman in white, still, nice.
5. Only For Him / Only For You
-----A nice song with a less forthcoming orchestration, lovely melodic tilt, intended to show Meg's love for the Phantom. It appears Webber tried to make a clear distinction between the deep love the phantom has for Christine with the 'cheap' and brassy tolerance he shows Meg, one (Christine's) is for sustenance, the other (Meg) is for survival. I like this song, maybe the distinction marked by the styles is rather too wide, making it two dimensional and one sided (leaning towards Christine)It achieves that.
6. The Aerie
----A lovely, haunting, beautiful instrumental, right from the bowels of the Phantom of the opera. Thick, serene, moving
7. Til I Hear You Sing
---Now we are talking, this is a magnificent song, a true descendant from the original Phantom. A pure display of the best Lloyd Webber can produce. Ramin is absolutely brilliant in it, This song makes the whole show worth it, really.
8. Giry Confronts The Phantom / 'Til I Hear You Sing
---A nice excuse for listening to Ramin again. Giry's bit is typical of the sung through melodic style in Phantom. Very well done by Giry.
9. Christine Disembarks
---mostly spoken, snippets of melodies in the background, mainly themes that will develop later
10. Arrival Of The Trio / Are You Ready To Begin?
I don't care for the three new characters..the Phantom's henchman. Their a-melodic and tense musical themes grind me, not good voices, neither great lyrics, they just add to the oddness that is the phantom, but are never developed enough to matter or to add any depth to the phantom, They are cliches that fill in space. I wish a judge would give Webber a court restraining order so he cannot get near electric guitars, he seems to think that by using them he is 'edgy', wrong! Lovely melodic bit at the end for Gustav, again, lots from woman in white.
11. What A Dreadful Town!...
---I like this song. A lovely string punctuation quite different from Webber's style. Mature, efficient.
12. Look With Your Heart
---Beautiful waltz, sweet, with surprising melodic changes that slide into one another. Fresh and tender.
13. Beneath A Moonless Sky
--This is the heavy bit! the first few notes and chords are straight from the beginning of the song 'the phantom of the opera', as the phantom enters Christine's room and sees her for the first time in ten years. Although the refrain in this song will remind you of the cell block tango from Chicago (I mean it)it is a powerful, beautiful ballad (kind of a tango as well) here we get the whole story of what happened in the last ten years, a bit of a rush, but such a powerful song, the phantom has entered the room...really a triumph
14. Once Upon Another Time
---Less of a song than above, but still sweet and lovely with a great melodic surge, dense with meaning and very much an aria in the opera style.
15. "Mother Please, I'm Scared!"
--Incidental stuff, the phantom meets Gustav...we get the electric guitar...bearable...it works, just enough, the right balance.
16. Dear Old Friend
---Great song a la notes in Phantom. cleverly worded, with touches of the original show and to great effect. It does have the same rhythmic style as Prima Donna , and the scene calls for it, as Meg is a Prima Donna in her work at Coney and Christine is a Prima Donna in her own right, with the trick from 'notes' of shifting between conversations.
17. Beautiful
---Haunting, sweet melody for Gustav.
18. The Beauty Underneath
---Loved by some, hated by almost every single soul that saw the show when I saw it. Too much guitar, too far off the musical style for the show, too modern. Honestly, I hated at the moment. One can imagine Elton John playing a set with AC/DC...it has its moments and many will like it...I found it a low point in the show, uncomfortable.
19. The Phantom Confronts Christine
---Nice, a mix of themes previously heard
Disc 2
1. Entr'acte
---Just that, but I love it.
2. Why Does She Love Me?
--A brooding song, quite different from the Webber stock, although in the same vein as his musical foundation for Sunset. Really nice and very well performed.
3. Devil Take The Hindmost
---Brilliant, brilliant...all I can say is 'Javert and Valjean's dialogue at Fantine's deathbed'...as powerful and as sublime.
4. Heaven By The Sea (Reprise)
---well..it is there...this being a not so great song and rather flat in its texture, i would have preferred another song to fill this slot instead of a rehash , almost feels as if Webber did not have enough time to come up with much musical vartiety and stuck to a couple of musical themes.
5. Ladies...Gents! / The Coney Island Waltz (Reprise)
---More of the same...I must admit I was bored by this point in the plot....
6. Bathing Beauty
---cute, very much a Webber song, catchy.
7. "Mother, Did You Watch?"
---Incidental, no new musical themes, just the same: mix and match. Still effective.
8. Before The Performance
Lovely, if because of the reprise of till I hear you sing. No new musical themes, again, reprises put together.
9. Devil Take The Hindmost
---A reprise but with a lot of pressure in it, a critical point in the plot, quite effective, really nice.
10. Love Never Dies
---This one is not new to us, heard it in the beautiful game and heard it by dame Kiri, yet it works well here, after all it was conceived years ago for this show. Sierra B has a wonderful voice, but the high notes are a push in her range, we can still say it is a breathless performance, a thousand times better than Katerine Jenkins and her catastrophic attempt at this song.
11. "Ah, Christine!..."
---more of the same,nice mix of earlier themes
12. "Gustave! Gustave!..."
---As above, more incidental music and earlier musical themes intertwined.
13. "Please Miss Giry, I want to go back..."
---climatic yet melodic-less ending. The final musical theme reprises the aeria and remind me of the very ending of Superstar, John Nineteen Forty-One. Maybe too weak for an ending (for this show)
So, do I like it? yes, overall a great musical that deserves many years on stage. I wish it had more original numbers and less reprises and that it did not have 'the beauty underneath' but hey, overall, a different show, this is not the phantom times 2, this is its own original show, with it's own personality. This show contains some of Webber's best ballads and melodies. Does it copy from his previous musical stock? yes, there is lots of Aspects of love, Woman in white and some Whistle down the wind...is it bad? well if we assume absolute originality as the definition of creativity, Sondheim has not been creative since Company, so there....
Sometimes we don't live happily ever after, but Love Never dies... March 10, 2010
James N. Chern (Clark, NJ USA)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
In reading some of the chatter about Love Never Dies in its preview performances, people were being misled to believe that this was going to be a disaster, yet, as a long time Andrew Lloyd Webber fan, I believe we see the composer returning to the Phantom of the Opera - one of his greatest artistic triumphs and approaching it not with reverence but with great maturity as a composer and as a human being.
In Love Never Dies, the characters have moved forward 10 years. Time has passed since the Phantom cried at the end of the original "...it's over now, the Music of the night" - but his love for Christine hasn't passed as he longs for her. Anyone who loved the original wouldn't find that unfathomable, and see how it's fully expressed in the soaring new anthem "Till I Hear You Sing", just one gem in a score filled with some of ALW's most romantic and beautiful tunes.
That's one example of how this show succeeds on multiple levels. Fans might be saddened by the twists and turns the story line takes, but it does what a good sequel should do - moves the story further. Musically though, there's no argument. With just a few brief quotes from the original Phantom sprinkled in, you can hear and feel the emotions of the characters that they've experienced since we last met them. It's been a fascinating experience for me as a fan of the original who first saw the Phantom in 1991 to hear the development of the characters, the music and the story.
I suppose people have grown attached to the original characters in the 20+ years Phantom has been playing in London and NY, yet for those who've dealt with tragedy among love in their lives, the honesty of Love Never Dies speaks on that deeper more mature level.
Worthy Successor to Original Phantom Show April 26, 2010
Marilyn C (New York City)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
In a word, loved it. Why should anyone care what I think? I'm a long-time phan girl - have seen the original show almost 20 times, including 6 times with Michael Crawford (4x in NYC and 2x in L.A.); I'm also a major music lover, with tastes spanning from Wagner to the Rolling Stones. Was a bit leery after reading initial negative reviews, but happy to say that any blanket negative reviews are just plain wrong. Oh, the show as revealed on the cast recording isn't perfect, don't get me wrong - the intro and the end drag a bit and some of the lyrics are simplistic - fortunately, in this regard, there are ongoing changes to the show and some lyrics as the show is being refined. Now, they probably should have waited on doing the cast recording until the show was completely 'set' but I like the recording enough to have listened to it multiple times, actually enjoying it more each time. That says a lot! The songs stay in your mind, and I do not understand some reviewers who say they aren't memorable. Not every song is equally great, of course: some are wonderful, others are just fine. Although I don't care for the Coney Island music (other than the beautiful Coney Island Waltz), that happens to fit with the operatic tradition of giving ordinary music to ordinary characters, saving the great, inspiring music for the major characters. My personal favorites are "Beneath a Moonless Sky" and "The Beauty Underneath," but I also have a guilty pleasure listening to "Devil Take the Hindmost" and of course everyone loves "'Till I Hear You Sing." I do not understand some people's objections to multiple use of specific musical themes - I happen to love that and find it unifies the entire show. The new show as revealed on the cast album has a different feel from the original Phantom show - much calmer, more mature, quite sad in places as people regret their earlier actions. If you want to see the original Phantom show, you can still see that - the new show has moved on as we all do over time. OK, so why buy the deluxe album? The DVD you get in the deluxe set is OK, not great, doesn't give away any secrets, but the deluxe set also has the libretto - I couldn't imagine listening to the CDs without the libretto which contains the stage directions as well as the words (most helpful when multiple people sing at the same time) so the listener has some idea of what's actually happening on stage. Some people have objected that the story is preposterous - well, as another reviewer suggested, isn't the original story preposterous too, if you really think about it? Some object to the idea that Christine went back to the Phantom after the events of the original show - this storyline doesn't bother me, because even in the Leroux novel she does return to him (OK, in the original book he's dead and she returns his ring and buries him, so it's not exactly on point), but in the Susan Kay "Phantom" novel, events in the original story unfold not unlike what this new story reveals (including the creation of a certain child). Bottom line: I'm putting my money where my mouth is, by planning a family vacation to London this summer, where we will see "Love Never Dies" at least twice - all that based on this cast recording. Pretty good recommendation - so why not give it a chance and see if you like it too? Just be sure to buy the deluxe set - and enjoy!
Just....Wow! March 23, 2010
Phantom-Rose (Beaver Dam, WI)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have always loved the Phantom's story in all its incarnations & various media interpretations. It's just a story that's always fascinated me & that I identify closely with. I have been in love with the oriiginal "Phantom of the Opera" musical since I heard it for the 1st time, somewhere around 1990. The day I finally saw it on Broadway was the day I knew my life was complete. Yeah; I'm a fan (Phan).
Then the other day I saw a TV ad for the CD set for this sequel, which I never even knew was in the works. I immediately jumped online to hunt it down. Now I have just finished listening to it for the 1st time & all I can say is WOW. That's it. All other words escape me in trying to describe it. Just....WOW! The music, the story, the performers...wow!
Never have I seen a movie or read a book whose sequel has truly been able to do the original justice, until now. (I don't include multi-part movie series or book series. I refer to sequels that were decided on after the fact - the ones that suck 98% of the time). It maintains the original musical's plot integrity, musical style & general mood but doesn't reinvent the wheel, so to speak. It is definitely a continuation of the story & one must have a good working knowledge of the first in order to trul appreciate it. I wouldn't say it is better than or even equal to the original but it really competes to be as great. I can't wait to see the actual show, which has already begun in London & will come to Broadway in Nov. 2010. It's my new life goal - to see this show with its original cast!
All Phantom fans owe it to themselves to get this soundtrack. You'd be doing yourself a great disservice if you didn't, honestly.
Classic Lloyd Webber April 15, 2010
Brett (Australia)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was sceptical, almost cringing, when i first heard about a sequel to Phantom of the Opera. I haven't been a huge fan of ALW's recent works and i thought this project might completely spoil his reputation.
But this is easily ALW's best music since Phantom, the score beautifully complements the original work without simply reprising earlier themes. The album is highlighted by several soaring and romantic melodies, sumptuously orchestrated and beautifully sung. In Love Never Dies, ALW successfully straddles the gap between Opera and Musical.
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