This Side Of The Sky - Music Preview Event | Stephen Ward
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- Andrew Lloyd Webber launches his latest West End musical Stephen Ward, based on the 1960s Profumo affair between Christine Keeler and politician John Profumo. The cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Stephen Ward perform an exclusive live version of This Side of the Sky at the West End launch event held by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the cast of Stephen Ward in London on 30 September.
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Lyrics:
There's another way to heaven
I am here right now
Look around
So many pleasures for the taking
Continued: bit.ly/1ZtHZeF
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Stephen Ward deals with the victim of the Profumo Affair - not, as is widely supposed, John 'Jack' Profumo himself, the disgraced Minister for War, nor even the fatally wounded Conservative government of Harold Macmillan, but the society osteopath whose private libertarian experiments blew up in his own and everyone else's face.
In a trial as emblematic to the twentieth century as Oscar Wilde's was to the nineteenth - from which he was the only protagonist to emerge with some dignity and honour - Ward became the targeted scapegoat of a furiously self-righteous Establishment.
By no means a hero, he was a reluctant martyr, thanks to an unholy alliance between Press and police of a kind we can all too readily recognise today; inadvertently, he was the hinge between two worlds and the harbinger of a revolution in manners, music and morals when the ordered, stuffy, respectful universe of the fifties gave way to the classless, truculent, unstoppable sixties.
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and Don Black, and directed by Richard Eyre, the musical centres on Stephen Ward’s involvement with the young and beautiful Christine Keeler and their chance meeting in a West End night club, which led to one of the biggest political scandals and most famous trials of the 20th century.
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Alexander Hanson...has the art of "speak singing" / taking a phrase and telling a story with it, down to a fine art. Just enough tone and texture to make it singing, whilst holding onto the meaning of the brilliant lyrics. Does it well here and perfectly in human sacrifice. His Pilate in JCS was the best I have ever seen.
I loved Alexander in JCS was pleased to find out he was in this.
beautiful beautiful beautiful
A beautiful song - I am hooked on it after seeing it performed on the Royal Variety show.
I'm so excited I think I might burst!
Thanks Laura :)
Love every piece of musical which Andrew Lloyds Webber made. He is a genius!
I saw the show yesterday and loved it. Alex Hanson is brilliant as SW and the two girls are great. I love this song... beautiful!
Even if is a somehow cloying song, I cannot stop humming it. ALW has the gift of making such kind of melodies. In stage it worked perfectly.
SO beautiful. Love the melody.
Love this, saw it on Royal Variety. Beautiful and he is a dish :)
One of the most beautiful songs ALW has produced in a long time.
Congratulations Mr Webber!!!
Excellent costumes. Christine Keeler looks so authentic.
Andrew Lloyd Webber never disappoints. Marked to see ~~
Favourite so far from this Musical! Beautiful!
beautiful song, beautiful lyrics. another ALW classic.
You need to get to this show! Fantastic. A really strong narrative that is easy to follow, even if you've never heard of the John Profumo affair. The lyrics of all the songs deliver on every front: cogent, witty, frivolous, touching, forlorn, menacing, painfully moving. And as for the score, I don't want anyone to keep blarneying about 'Andrew Lloyd Webber's always the same', or 'he's too populist', or 'he's not a proper composer'. It's magnificent! He pulls out all the stops delivering the genuine article on virtually any musical genre you can think of, from reggae rock and romantic, pop to punk, jazz to latin. That only leaves the cast, and without them, nothing I've said so far would be worth a tinker's cuss. Their delivery was really strong with total commitment from everybody, but the guy who played Stephen Ward (sorry, don't have the programme with me, attended on 14th January) presented a charming, principled, kind character who mistook the licentiousness of the British upper classes for free-thinking, and was left to crash and burn on his own, bearing no grudges. Plaudits also have to go to the actress who played Valerie Hobson. She has only a bijou moment with her lovely 'I'm hopeless when it comes to you' but boy, what a jewel that was. I can't sing it to myself now without crying! Hope you find this useful, and hurry up to book!
Seeing this in previews on Dec 7th...can't wait. All 3 songs posted are great. Beautiful melodies
This is so beautiful!! I can't wait for it now... One of the best songs Andrew's produced for a while, aah!
Im so very excited to hear ALW's new material! It has been far too long, I only wish I lived in England so I could see it live. Please come on down to Australia some time!
beautiful
Like this more after seeing this in show . Lovely song
Who’s the girl who plays keeler here? She and Alexander have wonderful chemistry.
This premiered when I was 14 years old (am from the US) and I barely knew about the scandal, so I was too young to notice it. Discovered it after listening to the wonderful 2010 cast recording of a little night music starring Alexander Hanson and the one and only Catherine Zeta Jones.
It’s scary how relevant the Profumo affair and it’s lessons (or those failed to learn lessons) are to today’s world.
Thanks Marco
This looked great... Except for the microphones taped to the heads. 🎤 🗣️
Alex Hanson rocks!
slightly naughty off topic question but still ALW production and in the Aldwych 2.5 years.... Any chance of a Whistle rerun?
Yes, a beautiful melody - simple but strong. Is it suitable for these rather shady characters? Need to see the show to judge!
Ám I wrong of I say that this melody comes straight from 'the likes of us'?
UK I should have stated....
great performance, but microphones taped to the forehead is a non-starter. this needs to be fixed.
I'm not a fan of Charlotte Spencer. She just seems like she doesn't know what to do with herself on stage. I know that's not part of the character....