Andrew Lloyd Webber announced yesterday a long-awaited sequel to his massively successful "The Phantom of the Opera."

This time he'll be haunting the amusement park at New York's Coney Island so we guess they couldn't work out a licensing deal with Great Adventure.

"There's unfinished business," Lloyd Webber told journalists assembled for a teaser - a new song featuring the Phantom, played by Iranian-born Canadian Ramin Karimloo, and his love interest, Christine, played by American actress Sierra Boggess.

"I don't regard this as a sequel; it's a standalone piece," Lloyd Webber said in London.

The musical will be called "Love Never Dies" and will open in London in March and on Broadway in November 2010.

It picks up a decade after the original's conclusion, and has the Phantom moving to Coney Island, which almost sounds like a "Saturday Night Live" skit, but isn't.

Lloyd Webber said he wanted to produce a sequel because the original's ending, which sees Christine leave the sexy, masked Phantom for his rival, Raoul the dullard, was unsatisfactory.

He said he wanted to set the piece at Coney Island because, at its turn-of-the-century heyday, it was "the eighth wonder of the world."

Wouldn't it be cool if in the new version, instead of a chandelier falling, the Cyclone rollercoaster flies off its rails into the audience?

And don't forget, Nathan's hot dogs at the refreshment stand.

Tattbits

* First newspapers and now

this:

Miley Cyrus has quit Twitter.

Why hath you forsaken us, Miley?

Where are more than a million tweens now going to get their unimportant, breaking news in poorly spelled, 140-character tweets?

* Conrad Murray, the doctor

(and we use that term loosely) at the center of an investigation into Michael Jackson's death, may face arrest and could lose his medical license after missing a hearing to explain late child- support payments, the Las Vegas D.A. said yesterday.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger says Murray owes $13,000 in unpaid child support to a California woman.

Court records show that Murray had serious financial problems when he signed on in May at $150,000 per month to keep MJ healthy through a series of comeback shows planned in London. He owed at least $780,000 for settlements against his business, outstanding mortgage payments on his house, delinquent student loans, child support and credit cards.

Hmmm, maybe he should have blackmailed David Letterman.

It is interesting, however, that owing child support could take away Murray's medical license before administering hospital-grade anesthetic in a pop star's bedroom.

* Here's a musical collaboration

we never thought we'd see: Brian Wilson and George Gershwin.

The former Beach Boy has signed with Walt Disney Records and will record two solo albums, one featuring covers of classic Disney songs ("Surfercalifragilistic . . . ") and another covering songs by George and Ira Gershwin. For that recording, the Gershwin estate has given Wilson access to rare, unfinished pieces of music by George, for Wilson to craft new collaborative compositions.

So get ready for "Someone to Watch Over Me In My Room," "They All Laughed at a Little Deuce Coupe" and "God Only Knows 'S Wonderful."

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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