A new musical from British impresario and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will delve into the sex, spies and politics at the heart of Britain’s biggest post-war scandal when it opens in December.
“Stephen Ward” charts the rise and fall of a high society osteopath at the center of the 1963 “Profumo Affair” which embarrassed the British establishment by exposing the decadent lifestyle of the London elite as the sexual revolution began.
“It’s a little bit about the last gasp of the old Britain, whilst the new one was about to come and how the whole business led to the downfall of a government,” Lloyd Webber told Reuters at the musical’s launch on Monday.
A sample of the songs in the new production — sung live to the media by the cast in a Soho nightclub — provided a bawdy look into the lifestyle of a man who mixed party girls and powerful people at seedy London clubs and country houses, Reuters inform.
