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Jamie Muscato and Celinde Schoenmaker Will Star in London Love Never Dies Concerts
The Phantom of the Opera sequel, which follows opera star Christine Daaé to New York's Coney Island, will play the London Palladium.
March 23, 2026 By Andrew Gans, Logan Culwell-Block
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera sequel musical, Love Never Dies, will again return to London's West End for concert performances October 16 and 17 the London Palladium. Shaun Kerrison, who directed the 2023 concerts of the musical, will also helm the fall performances.
Olivier nominee Jamie Muscato (One Day; The Great Gatsby; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) will play the Phantom with Celinde Schoenmaker (Guys & Dolls, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera) making her return as Christine.
Additional casting and creative team members for the concerts—part of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera—will be announced at a later date. Tickets will go on sale March 27.
The musical—featuring music by Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, additional lyrics by Charles Hart, and a book by Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton with Glenn Slater and Frederick Forsyth—picks up 10 years after the events of The Phantom of the Opera, with the Phantom having escaped Paris to become an impresario in New York's Coney Island. In need of his muse, the Phantom contracts Christine Daaé to bring her family—including husband Raoul and sun Gustave—to the U.S. for a final performance, but without revealing his true identity.
Developed over two decades, Love Never Dies premiered in London's West End in 2010, in a production directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, with Broadway favorites Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess creating the roles of the Phantom and Christine, respectively. The work would not prove to be the long-running hit that its predecessor was, closing 18 months later. A completely new and revised production opened in Australia in 2011, and this version was later filmed on stage and released internationally on home video. In the years since, this revised version has played around the world and toured the U.S., though the musical has still not made its way to Broadway.
The 2023 London concerts featured Tony nominee Norm Lewis as the Phantom with Schoenmaker as
Christine.
Darren Bell and Cuffe & Taylor for Live Nation produce.
Visit LoveNeverDiesConcert.co.uk.
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