Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies

World Exclusive for South Bank Show Awards

The South Bank Show Awards are delighted to announce a world exclusive premiere, with the first public performance of the title song from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long anticipated new show Love Never Dies sung by its star Sierra Boggess and accompanied by Andrew and Louise Hunt on two grand pianos. Love Never Dies will open at the Adelphi Theatre in March. 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.

Melvyn Bragg will host the final South Bank Show Awards taking place on Tuesday 26 January 2010, in front of a star studded audience at The Dorchester, London.

Andrew Lloyd Webber says: “I am absolutely delighted to be able to accompany my new Christine as she gives the very first performance of Love Never Dies, at the last ever South Bank Show Awards. No television show in the last half century has done more for the arts than The South Bank Show and we are very much looking forward to being part of this final ceremony.”

Melvyn Bragg says: “I could not be more pleased that Andrew has chosen to bring the world premiere of Love Never Dies to The South Bank Show Awards. A track from his Variations has been our signature tune from the start. It inspired the only television titles to win a Prix Italia. The films we’ve made with him over the 30 years have chartered a unique and phenomenal career in music theatre. It is just great that having been in at the beginning he is helping us to bring the curtain down”.

Also performing will be Julian Lloyd Webber and his band, who will play the iconic South Bank Show theme: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Variations: Paganini Caprice in A minor No. 24, and also Variation No. 23.

22 January 2010