The full cast for the concert production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies has been announced ahead of its run at the London Palladium this year.
Joining the previously announced Jamie Muscato as Phantom, Celinde Schoenmaker as Christine, George Blagden as Raoul, Courtney Stapleton as Meg and Mazz Murray as Giry will be Holly James as Fleck, Nic Greenshields as Squelch and Charles Brunton as Gangle.
The cast is completed by Leslie Garcia Bowman, Georgia Joan Clements, Sally Frith, Christian Knight, Louis Mackrodt, Gleanne Purcell-Brown, Hollie Jane Stephens and Tommy Wade-Smith.
Love Never Dies – Phantom of the Opera’s spectacular sequel – returns to the story 10 years after the Phantom’s disappearance from the Paris Opera House. Escaped to a new life in New York, he has finally found a place for his music to soar. All that is missing is Christine Daaé – the young soprano whose sensational talent enchanted the Phantom and saw him fall deeply and dangerously in love.
In a final bid to win her back, the Phantom lures Christine, her husband, and their young son Gustave to America to perform one final time. As old wounds are reopened and forgotten memories unlocked, the Phantom sets out to prove that, indeed, Love Never Dies.
The concert will be directed by Shaun Kerrison with choreography by Joanna Goodwin, set and costume design by Rebecca Brower, lighting design by Tim Deiling, sound design by Paul Gatehouse, music supervision by Simon Lee, casting by Sarah Jane Price Casting CDA, costume supervision by Jennie Quirk, props supervision by Katie Balmforth, associate sound design by Charlie Smith, orchestra management by Nicola Rossiter, production management by Pete Kramer and general management by Sam Quested for QUBE Theatricals.
The company is completed by Peter Barnett (company stage manager), Leea Smith (deputy stage manager) Ben Turnball & Declan Smith (assistant stage managers), Rachel Perry (head of wardrobe) and Annie Linfett (wardrobe assistant).
The original production of Love Never Dies has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton with Glenn Slater and Frederick Forsyth, lyrics by Glenn Slater with additional lyrics by Charles Hart and orchestrations by David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
This concert production comes as Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera celebrates its 40th year in London’s West End at His Majesty’s Theatre. Since 1986, it has played to more than160 million people in 217 cities, 58 territories and 23 languages.
Love Never Dies is produced by Darren Bell and Cuffe & Taylor for Live Nation and presented by arrangement with LW Entertainment.
The concert will run on October 16, 17 and 18. Tickets here.
Top image: Holly James, Nic Greenshields and Charles Brunton (images supplied)