The Beautiful Game reworked as The Boys In The Photograph

Sorry if this has been discussed before but I just realized that Lloyd Webber & Ben Elton are rewritting The Beautiful Game with a new title The Boys In The Photograph. Apparently the workshop production was presented this last April at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts with a professional production to premiere in Canada for 2009.
http://www.lipa.ac.uk/publicperformances/theboys.asp
Does anyone know anymore about this?
Did anyone see the re-worked show?

I wonder if Our Kind of Love will be removed from The Beautiful Game (or TBITP) and reworked into the Phantom 2 show.

Thought this was interesting.

Updated On: 6/9/08 at 01:34 PM

I actually liked The First Time. In context of the show, it really worked as it portrayed the awkwardness of wedding-night jitters. It was rather cute and poignant. It was one of the many songs that worked better for me on stage than just hearing the recording. I do remember All the Love I have seeming completely out of place, however.

I do think The Boys in the Photograph is a terrible title. It sounds more like a musical about gay men. And I really hope they keep Our Kind of Love in the show. When I saw the show during its final performance in the West End (Lloyd Webber was just a few rows behind me), Hannah Waddingham literally stopped the show with that song. She finally had to acknowledge the audience to get them to settle down. It was glorious.

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songanddanceman2,

was Our Kind Of Love still in the show?


thanks!
adamchris

The Beautiful Game is actually one of my favourite Lloyd Webber shows on stage. Not on cd though....

As of right now the Toronto run is cancelled.

Was very surprised to see BustopherPhantom refer to the title of "The Beautiful Game! as having the most cliched image ever created! Drrrrh!

And the awful truth really is that that subject matter is never going to have a very wide appeal whatever the show is like. In many ways it ought to be more popular in America, though, since the troubles were largely kept going by American money.

But I too would like to know whether "Our kind of love" was included in Liverpool. It might still have been removed since of course, but I had understood that "The heart is slow to learn" was back in the Phantom sequel.

And the awful truth really is that that subject matter is never going to have a very wide appeal whatever the show is like.

I would agree except that the story is told using the old standby Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story format, which is universally recognizable. But I do believe the title of the show should be something a little more universal and relevant to the plot than "The Beautiful Game" (not a particularly recognizable expression in the US) or "The Boys in the Photograph" (WTF?). Personally, I would use the title from the song "God's Own Country", which sums up the religious views that fuel the story. The sport is merely a substitute for the ballroom and town square scenes in Romeo and Juliet. The Protestants and the Catholics represent the Montagues and Capulets, and their conflict is the catalyst for the romanticism and tragedy of the story. The foundation of that conflict in The Beautiful Game is laid out in "God's Own Country". Hence, there is your title.

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I am not too sure about actually putting "God" in the title, but I do agree with the principle. "The Beautiful Game" as a title seemed good except that it is a euphamisn for football (or soccer in America), and it was actively deceptive re content and offputting for that.

And although there are parallels to the warring Montagues and Capulets etc, the difference is that there was always some disassociation from the factional violence. In this country at least, and that is nothing on what it must be like for those who had to live through it in Northern Ireland, the troubles are still too recent and too real and too ugly.