It has been announced that the West End production of Stephen Ward has released a further 120,000 tickets for sale, extending bookings at the Aldwych Theatre to 31st May 2014. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Ward has book and lyrics by playwright Christopher Hampton and lyricist Don Black. The production, which premiered last month, is directed by Richard Eyre
1963. The scandal that shocked society. Stephen Ward charts the rise and fall from grace of the man at the centre of the Profumo affair. Friend to film stars, spies, models, government ministers and aristocrats, his rise and ultimate disgrace coincided with the increasingly permissive lifestyle of London's elite in the early 1960's. The musical centres on 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 trials of the 20th century.
The current cast stars: Alexander Hanson as Stephen Ward, Charlotte Spencer as Christine Keeler and Charlotte Blackledge as Mandy Rice Davies alongside: Anthony Calf as Lord Astor, Daniel Flynn as John Profumo, Joanna Riding as Valerie Hobson, Ian Conningham as Ivanov, Chris Howell as Murray, Ricardo Coke Thomas as Lucky Gordon andWayne Robinson as Johnny Edgecombe.
Other cast members include: Martin Callaghan, Kate Coyston, Jason Denton, Julian Forsyth, Amy Griffiths, Paul Kemble, Emma Kate Nelson, Carl Sanderson, Emily Squibb, John Stacey, Helen Ternent and Tim Walton.
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