In the show, Christine Daaé is invited by Oscar Hammerstein I for her American debut, until an anonymous impresario contracts her to perform at Phantasma, a new attraction on Coney Island. The musical is set in 1907, which Lloyd Webber states is 'ten years roughly after the end of the original Phantom', although the events of the original actually took place in 1881. Lloyd Webber stated, 'I don't regard this as a sequel-it's a stand-alone piece.' He later clarified, 'Clearly, it is a sequel, but I really do not believe that you have to have seen Phantom of the Opera to understand Love Never Dies.' Glenn Slater subsequently explained that Lloyd Webber 'didn’t view it as a sequel as much as 'a second story with these characters''. The plot is not based on the storyline in the original 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. It is a sequel to the long-running 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera and was loosely adapted from Forsyth's 1999 novel The Phantom of Manhattan. Love Never Dies is a romantic musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and a book by Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth, and Slater.

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