Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love is a ballad from the 2000 musical "The Beautiful Game" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The lyrics were written by Ben Elton. Lloyd Webber used a Giacomo Puccini aria as the melody for this song, which he had previously used for the song "The Heart is Slow to Learn" in the 1990s, part of an intended sequel to the Webber musical "Phantom of the Opera". The track was recorded by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998. She performed it live the same year, as part of a concert to celebrate
Concept musical the show is based around a concept rather than a linear plot, author Andrew Lloyd Webber had intended to create a show that was not meant to "reflect [or] comment on the world, even in an oblique, metaphorical way." This was a drastic difference from the metaphors that defined the concept musical. Thus, the concept musical branched out into the megamusical, which utilizes spectacle and increased technology to "radicalize the imagistic potential of musical theatre." "Starlight Express", an "experiment" by Lloyd Webber, debuted on the West End in 1984 and on Broadway in 1987. Like "Cats", the show focuses on