LATEST: LOVE NEVER DIES Re-Opens - All The Gossip And Spoilers!

Love Never Dies reopened at the Adelphi Theatre tonight after a hiatus this week while the cast and creatives worked on changes to the show.

So what's being said? Well, actor Ramin Karimloo (who plays the Phantom) was very enthusiastic when the curtain fell, tweeting: "Well, giddy up to that. That was fun and exciting. Well done LND cast. Brilliant." And Sierra Boggess (Christine) was equally excited: "well done everyone on opening night AGAIN!!! That felt electric!"

But what's been changed? And what did the audience on this first night back think?

The biggest change, according to the internet buzz, seems to be with the ending. Raoul doesn't disappear as per the terms of his gamble with the Phantom, but promises to leave after Christine's final performance. As such, he's there at the denouement, holding his wife's dead body.

One audience member described it: "Come the finale, Meg drags Gustave off to drown him. The Phantom tries to get the gun off Meg, blaming Madame Giry for being a neglectful mother, he still says "we can't all be like Christine", Meg accidentally shoots Christine, Giry takes Meg and runs off, the Phantom cradles Christine, Christine tells Gustave that the Phantom is his father, Gustave's all "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO" and runs off. The Phantom and Christine sing the obligatory tedious Duet O' Death, they kiss, Christine dies. The Phantom cradles her for a bit longer, and then Gustave returns with Raoul. Gustave hugs Raoul, and then they both crouch over Christine's dead body. Then Raoul stays hunched over Christine while Gustave walks over and puts his arms around the Phantom, who still has his mask on."

That means that Meg - who is, let's face it, the murderer - is no longer the one cradling Christine's dying body. However, what this altered ending does bring into sharp focus is that Raoul has lost everything in the space of this show, and as such he does seem to deserve more of the audience's sympathy than any of the other characters; as one viewer commented: "Poor Raoul comes back and has basically lost everything." Knowing that the end was likely to be subject to changes, one fan was disappointed: "I was hoping that as Raoul and Gustave come in holding hands, that Raoul would somehow get to keep Gustave."

The Prologue, which has been altered multiple times since the show opened, now apparently runs thus: "There's no part set after the events of the show with Madame Giry reminiscing; instead, it opens with the Phantom in the Aerie with his Christine automaton, singing 'Til I Hear You Sing'. Then there's Madame Giry singing 'The Coney Island Waltz', but I don't think this is meant to be set after everything has happened. Perhaps it still is, but it wouldn't really make a lot of sense dramatically to have that when the show's already started. Anyway, that segues into Meg and the rest of the company doing 'Only For You'."

The first time Christine appears is on her arrival in New York - where she's booked to sing for Oscar Hammerstein at his new Opera House: "That's what the paparazzi are asking her about, and discussing Raoul's debts. Then the glass carriage arrives, with the freaks inside it, and they deliver a letter from "Mr H" summoning Christine. So they purport to take her to Hammerstein - but in reality they take her to Coney Island instead. Christine and Raoul's argument, and 'Look With Your Heart', follow, and then Raoul gets a message to meet Mr Hammerstein and exits. Then that's when the Phantom appears to Christine in that dramatic fashion, and they sing 'Beneath A Moonless Sky'.". Another viewer was very pleased with these Act One changes, commenting: "Changes were so BRILLIANT. First act was so dramatic, so great!"

Fans of the show's magic tricks and special effects will be pleased to note that the replica Christine, the glass carriage and the walking skeleton trolley are all still present and correct, as is the rotating staging of the Devil Takes The Hindmost reprise: "I loved that, very dramatic," said one commenter.

Were you at Love Never Dies tonight? What did you think of the changes? Let us know!