Lloyd Webber delays Broadway opening

Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to the hit musical Phantom of the Opera will reach Broadway later than planned due to ongoing problems following his surgery for prostate cancer , the British composer said yesterday.

Love Never Dies, which opened recently in London, was to have opened in New York in November, but has been pushed back to the spring of 2011. Plans to stage the show in Australia next year will not be affected. "Although the cancer has been eradicated, there have been post-operative problems," the show's organisers said in a statement regarding Mr Lloyd Webber's health.

"These have been aggravated by recent air travel and Lloyd Webber's doctors have requested that he does not take any further long-haul flights for the time being and until the problem has been investigated."

Mr Lloyd Webber, 62, said he was "extremely frustrated" about the delay and would focus his time on producing The Wizard of Oz in London while he was unable to travel to the United States.