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)
Andrew Lloyd Webber at Wembley Stadium, London, an event organised to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. BBC Radio 2 broadcast a concert of music from the Lloyd Webber musicals on 24 August 2007. Denise Van Outen introduced songs from "Whistle Down the Wind", "The Beautiful Game", "Tell Me on a Sunday", "The Woman in White", "Evita" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" – as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music", which Lloyd Webber revived in 2006 at the London Palladium, and the 2002 musical "Bombay Dreams". In April 2008, Lloyd Webber reprised