The Beautiful Game (musical) The Beautiful Game (musical) The Beautiful Game (sometimes performed as The Boys in the Photograph) is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton about a group of teenagers growing up during The Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1969. The title of the musical ("The Beautiful Game") is a commonly used reference to football, the origins of which are disputed. The plot, which is centred on a local football (soccer) team, focuses on the attempt to overcome the violence that has engulfed their community. The Catholic team has one atheist player, Del (who comes from a Protestant family)
Love Never Dies (musical) of Boggess. On 26 January 2010 the title song "Love Never Dies" was first publicly performed at "The South Bank Show Awards", sung by Sierra Boggess and accompanied by Lloyd Webber and Louise Hunt on two grand pianos. The show was broadcast on ITV1 on 31 January 2010. The tune is identical to Lloyd Webber's other musical numbers "Our Kind of Love" from "The Beautiful Game" in 2000 and "The Heart is Slow to Learn", which was intended for a "Phantom" sequel, sung by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998 at the "Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration". "Love