Sydmonton Festival

Sydmonton Festival
Sydmonton Festival
Genre	Musical theatre
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Sydmonton Court, Hampshire
Inaugurated	1975
Patron(s)	Andrew Lloyd Webber

The Sydmonton Festival is a summer arts festival presented in a deconsecrated 16th century chapel on the grounds of Sydmonton Court, the country estate of Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is in Hampshire, located approximately 85 kilometres southwest of London, and was established in September 1975.^[1] Its purpose is to introduce new works to a private audience of individuals connected with theatre, television, and film in order to determine their future potential and viable commercialism.^[2]

Among the Lloyd Webber projects to receive their first public performances at the festival are Evita, Variations, Tell Me on a Sunday, Cats, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, By Jeeves, The Beautiful Game, The Woman in White, The Likes of Us, and Love Never Dies. His Cricket received its second performance here.

Other projects to debut here include Nunc Dimittis, Masquerade, and Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day by Rod Argent, Cafe Puccini by Robin Ray, Girlfriends by Howard Goodall and Richard Curtis, Love Songs by Charles Hart, La Bête by David Hirson, Yosopv by Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel, and Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor.

References[]

^ Stoddard, Sylvia (Fall 1993). "A Journey Down $un$set B£vd". Show Music. Square One. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
^ Citron, Stephen, Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical. New York, New York: Oxford University Press 2001. ISBN 0-19-509601-0 p. 15

External links[]

Official website

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[1] Stoddard, Sylvia (Fall 1993). "A Journey Down $un$set B£vd". Show Music. Square One. Retrieved 22 April 2012.

[2] Citron, Stephen, Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical. New York, New York: Oxford University Press 2001. ISBN 0-19-509601-0 p. 15

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v t Andrew Lloyd Webber
Musicals	Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Evita Tell Me on a Sunday Cats Song and Dance Starlight Express Cricket The Phantom of the Opera Aspects of Love Sunset Boulevard By Jeeves (aka Jeeves) Whistle Down the Wind The Beautiful Game (aka The Boys in the Photograph) The Woman in White The Likes of Us Love Never Dies The Wizard of Oz Stephen Ward School of Rock Cinderella
Songs	"Any Dream Will Do" "Close Every Door" "Everything's Alright" "This Jesus Must Die" "I Don't Know How to Love Him" "Superstar" "Oh What a Circus" "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" "You Must Love Me" "Take That Look Off Your Face" "Unexpected Song" "Memory" "Pie Jesu" "The Phantom of the Opera" "The Music of the Night" "All I Ask of You" "Anything But Lonely" "Tetris" "As If We Never Said Goodbye" "The Perfect Year" "No Matter What" "It's My Time" "'Til I Hear You Sing" "Beautiful Ghosts"
Albums	Jesus Christ Superstar Evita Variations Cats The Premiere Collection The Premiere Collection Encore The Collection Now & Forever
Other compositions	Requiem Watership Down
Film adaptations	Jesus Christ Superstar Evita Cats (1998) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Cats (2019)
Family	William Lloyd Webber (father) Julian Lloyd Webber (brother) Imogen Lloyd Webber (daughter) Sarah Brightman (second wife) Madeleine Gurdon (third wife) Jiaxin Cheng (sister-in-law)
Company	Really Useful Group