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Cats comes to the London Palladium for Christmas

Douglas Mayo25th February 20167th July 2014 News, West End

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Trevor Nunn and Gillian Lynne were today joined by Producer David Ian to announce that Cats will be returning to the West End in a “new edition” of the show. Originally produced at The New London Theatre, the show ran for over 21 years confounding early naysayers who thought that a musical based on T.S Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats would never work. The show went on to be staged around the world conquering all before it. Lloyd Webber and his original creative team were excited to reveal that the London Palladium production would allow them to create a new blueprint for the show going forward for years to come. Lloyd Webber revealed that this production would allow him a chance to re-work Growltiger’s Last Stand, which he was never really happy with, and to re-work The Rum Tum Tugger as a modern day rapper. … Read more

Joseph to be an animated film thanks to Elton John’s Rocket Pictures

Editorial Staff8th July 20146th February 2014 News

It was announced today that Elton John’s Rocket Pictures has acquired the rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, which it intends to produce as an animated film.

Images – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Stephen Ward

Editorial Staff9th December 20145th February 2014 Gallery, West End

Production images from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Stephen Ward currently playing at the Aldwych Theatre.

Joseph to hit the silver screen

Editorial Staff11th July 201429th January 2014 News

Joseph and his amazing technicolor dreamcoat

Following the success of the movie musical Les Miserables, Andrew Lloyd Webber has confirmed that plans are afoot for a screen adaptation of his musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. In an interview on the BBC’s One Show, Lloyd Webber confirmed that production had already begun. Lloyd Webber was also quick to mention that with the success of Les Miserables, a film version of Cats was “now, for the first time, a real possibility”. Lloyd Webber musicals have already been adapted for the big screen. His musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and The Phantom Of The Opera have enjoyed success with others including Sunset Boulevard awaiting a screen adaptation.

Review: Stephen Ward, Aldwych Theatre ✭✭

Douglas Mayo25th February 201628th January 2014 Reviews

Alexander Hanson and Charlotte Blackledge in Stephen Ward

It’s a story that offered so much but as a show Stephen Ward returns so little.

REVIEW: Stephen Ward, Aldwych Theatre ✭

Stephen Collins17th July 201421st December 2013 Reviews

The piece has no idea what it is doing: it does not tell any story well or with feeling. You know as much about Stephen Ward and his part in the Profumo scandal when the final curtain falls as you do when the opening notes sound in the orchestra.