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)
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) the screen. In the "Behind the Mask" documentary, Richard Stilgoe described the video as "wonderful, as over-the-top as you can get". Cameron Mackinstosh said: "Ken Russell came up with the most brilliant, outrageous video. It's fantastic fun, and completely over-the-top, which of course Andrew and I loved." The British guitarist Hank Marvin did an instrumental version of the song on his 1997 album "Hank Plays the Music of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber". The song "The Phantom of the Opera" was covered in 1998 by Charlotte Church and Peter Karrie. It was covered in 2002 by the Finnish symphonic