Michaela Beauieu
Contributing Writer

“Love Never Dies” is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s return to form.
Over the past twenty years Webber has been working on the sequel one of the most well known plays in this century, the ‘Phantom of the Opera’.

In The ‘Phantom of the Opera’, Webber caught the genius of Gaston Leroux. However, this time, he put a tragic end to the glorious story.

For those who have never heard of, or seen, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ by the end of this story, lead heroine Christine is left with two choices to give her love; Raul, a suitor from her childhood.

Her other choice is the Phantom (Erik). He is man who helped Christine make her voice as beautiful and powerful as it became. In the end, she chose Raul.

There are many exciting plot twists in ‘Love Never Dies’, for example on the night before her wedding; she slipped out into the night to find the Phantom. However, when she awoke the next day, he was gone.

The play is set ten years later, when Raul has gambled himself into a deep debt and Christine now has a ten-year-old son
whom she would do anything to protect.

Christine begins to use her singing talents to pay the bills, and catches the attention of a Mr. Why, with whom she signs a contract with.

Even though the price of her singing one song was so high that it made Christine uncomfortable, she couldn’t refuse in her family’s
current state.

Over the course of her finally meeting him, she finds that Mr. Why isn’t the man she thinks he
is.

The casting for this play was simply perfection.

The casting of Maria Mercedes, as Meg Giry, was brilliant. She portrayed the most convincing losing of one’s mind that I’ve seen in years.

The strength of Ben Lewis’s(Phantom) voice along Anna O’Byrne (Christine) was unmatched.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as the beautiful ending put an end to the romance story of the century.