A new "Phantom of the Opera" is coming to Broadway, and beyond. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber told the Times of London on Sunday that "the button is pushed" on a sequel to the world's most successful musical.

He plans to open "Phantom: Love Never Dies" at the end of 2009, with a historic simultaneous opening in three cities -- on Broadway in New York, in London's West End, and potentially in Shanghai. Such an opening would be groundbreaking.

"I don't think you could do this if it wasn't the sequel to Phantom," he told the paper. "We've been into the feasibility of rehearsing three companies at once and opening very fast in the three territories. The one which really interests me [in the Far East] would be China ... I think to open 'Love Never Dies' in Shanghai would be an enormous thing."