The Beautiful Game

musical by Lloyd Webber and Elton

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Elton

  • Ben Elton
    In Ben Elton: Published novels and other works

    …Andrew Lloyd Webber, he wrote The Beautiful Game (2000) about a football (soccer) team in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, and Love Never Dies (2010), a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. He also wrote the popular jukebox musical We Will Rock You (2002) in collaboration with and inspired…

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Lloyd Webber

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
    In Andrew Lloyd Webber: Later career

    (1998), set in 1950s Louisiana; The Beautiful Game (2000), about an association football (soccer) team in strife-torn Belfast, Northern Ireland; The Woman in White (2004), an adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s mystery novel of the same name; The Wizard of Oz (2011), based on the 1939 film; School of

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