George Blagden, Courtney Stapleton and Mazz Murray will join the cast for the WhatsOnStage Award-winning concert production of Love Never Dies at the London Palladium.

George Blagden (The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Curve Leicester; Company, West End; Versailles, BBC; Les Misérables, 2012) will play Raoul, Courtney Stapleton (Pride, National Theatre; Dear Evan Hansen, West End; Les Misérables, West End) will play Meg, and Mazz Murray (MAMMA MIA!, West End; We Will Rock You, West End; Sunset Boulevard, Royal Albert Hall) will play Giry.

They join the previously announced Jamie Muscato as Phantom and Celinde Schoenmaker who returns to the role of Christine with further casting to be announced.

The concert will be directed by Shaun Kerrison with set and costume design by Rebecca Brower, choreography by Joanna Goodwin, lighting design by Tim Deiling, sound design by Paul Gatehouse, music supervision by Simon Lee, casting by Sarah Jane Price, production management by Pete Kramer and general management by Sam Quested for QUBE Theatricals.

The concert forms part of the celebrations for the 40^th anniversary of Phantom of the Opera.

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. 

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, marking four extraordinary decades at His Majesty’s Theatre. Phantom of the Opera is widely considered one of the world’s most beautiful and spectacular musicals. Since 1986, the global phenomenon has played to over 160 million people in 217 cities, 58 territories and 23 languages.