The Beautiful Game Musical Dvd

The beautiful game will certainly not count among andrew lloyd webber s best contributions to the musical theatre and this recording doesn t improve that fact.

The beautiful game musical dvd. Andrew lloyd webber and ben elton s the beautiful game which opened in london on september 26 2000 is an original story set in northern ireland in the late 60s that concerns a team of teenaged football i e soccer players whose lives are derailed by the irish troubles. Lyrics by ben elton. There are several things that didn t come to place here. Millions of africans lives are wrapped up in the beautiful game.

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. Players fans young old with or without a disability male and female. September 26 2000. The beautiful game.

The beautiful game let us love in peace alex sharpe by celticwomanbrasil. It s an unusually serious topic for lloyd webber and is driven by elton a playwright and comedian though there are no. 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. Listen now with amazon music.

Music by andrew lloyd webber. Ben elton tells their story with humour and compassion with lyrics that are both funny and heartbreaking. 6m 6f 6m or f. The beautiful game follows the fortunes of a group of teenagers all members of a local soccer team and their friends.

Andrew lloyd webber and ben elton s musical the beautiful game opened at the cambridge theatre london in september 2000 has been retitled the boys in the photograph. See all 3 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Directed by victor buhler. Last updated on jul 2 2014.

In belfast in the late 60s a horde of keen adolescents play soccer. Full length musical romance comedy sports drama 1970s. A character based feature documentary that portrays the transcendent power of soccer in modern africa a game that is helping to change the lives of individuals and communities across the continent. And even if the beautiful game which teams the abrasive ben elton and the romantic andrew lloyd webber isn t the greatest musical you ll ever see it has the signal virtue of telling its story.

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