Love Never Dies must rate as one of the Adelphi Theatre's most stupendous productions, with fantastic sets and marvellous special effects plus the captivating voices of Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo.

It is a great night out and a worthy follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera - even though Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical score does not match that in the original.

But the title song, though similar to Our Kind Of Love from the Lord's 2000 musical The Beautiful Game, is a real show stopper, thanks in no small part to Glenn Slater's superb lyrics and Boggess' marvellous soprano rendition.

Slater, who was nominated for Tony and Grammy awards in 2008 for his work on Disney's stage production of The Little Mermaid, deserves much of the credit for this show's success.

But, of course, Lloyd Webber makes vital contributions.

He and David Cullen provide great orchestrations and he is also involved in crafting a moving story with Ben Elton, Slater and Frederick Forsyth.

Ten years after his disappearance from the Paris Opera, the Phantom (Karimloo) has become a successful impresario of an amusement park on Brooklyn's Coney Island - despite mental and physical scars, with half his face deformed and still covered with a white mask.

He remains obsessively in love with opera star Chistine (Boggess), who is now married to irritable drunk Raoul (Joseph Millson) and has a 10-year-old son Gustave (played by Charlie Manton on the night I attended).

So the Phantom lures them to Coney Island and sets about winning Chistine's affections.

The powerful, melodic singing of Karimloo and Boggess, who both previously starred in the original Phantom, dominates Love Never Dies, but Liz Robertson and Summer Strallen make the most of their supporting roles as the Phantom's jealous employees.

Summer, having played Maria on stage in The Sound of Music, brings both humour and pathos to the show.

I loved Bob Crowley's designs, augmented by Jon Driscoll's video projections. Even the moon turned into a ferris wheel!

There are so many intriguing characters and a mass of visual imagery, including acrobats, trapeze artists, a 'glass horse' and a walking skeleton with lady's legs!