Love Hardly Dies

I still don't understand why there are people in this world that didn't enjoy the marvelous 'Love Never Dies' by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I have read opinions of this kind over and over again but I still don't get the idea. I think it is because of the plot mainly but there is something I still don't understand. Why try to spoil a musical only because you don't like the plot? For example I don't like some parts of the plot of 'Aspects of Love' but still I recognize it is how the story goes, it has good music and lyrics and I really enjoyed it. Not in a hundred years I would do campaigns to put it down, even if it wasn't the plot I would have liked. Why? Because I appreciate other people's work; and if you have seen 'Love Never Dies' you shurely know that it's an amazing work, not only of the music, but also the performance, the costumes, the props, the whole design is beautiful. It is spectacular. Of course if you haven't go to see it you don't know what I'm talking about, so why don't give it a chance? 

Why am I writing this? Because I spent all my savings to go to London and see the original production and what I can say is that it was worth every cent. It was a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity; we have to bear in mind that this negative propaganda has taken its toll. Last Wednesday it was published on blog.musicaltheatrenews.com that Love Never Dies will close for two weeks in September from 5th-17th. It is presumably that they will incorporate elements of the Australian production. If we add this to the fact that the original show has been changed so many times before, we won't have anything of the original production anymore. Don't get me wrong, I've seen videos and photos of the Australian production and I think it's pretty good but I prefer the original. It was perfect, I wouldn't change anything of it. I have been very sad because now I'm sure I'll never see again the show I loved. But, at the end, I hope 'Love Never Dies' will become the smashing hit the producers expect and the people who have worked on it and the show itself deserve to be; even if we have lost the original production on the way. Because, after all, I was there. We were there. It has been seen and enjoyed by many people. It took tears from our eyes, received our standing ovation even if the theatre wasn't full, showed us brilliant moments that now we can only see in our memories. But it will remain there. And we know it was great. We know that, indeed, love never dies.