Alexander Hanson Discusses STEPHEN WARD's Rich True Story

Andrew Lloyd Webber's highly anticipated new West End musical STEPHEN WARD is preparing for its bow next month and the title star of the show himself, Alexander Hanson, as well as director Richard Eyre and more share their thoughts on the new production in a new behind the scenes clip.

"The creative team is pretty amazing," Hanson says in the new interview of his impressive collaborators on the world premiere.

"They bring a lot of heft and class to the table and I am very excited about working with them," Hanson adds.

As for the "fascinating" real-life scandal that the show is based upon, that of Stephen Ward and the Profumo Affair, Hanson perks up even more in conversation.

"It had everything involved with it - politics, sex, intrigue, spies, royalty, lords and ladies; everything was going on."

Hanson opines, "It's a right, riveting story with some great tunes."

The official synopsis for STEPHEN WARD is as follows: "STEPHEN WARD deals with the victim of the Profumo Affair - not, as is widely supposed, John Profumo himself, the disgraced Minister for War, nor even the fatally wounded Conservative government of Harold Macmillan, but the society osteopath whose private libertarian experiments blew up in his own and everyone else's face. In a trial as emblematic to the twentieth century as Oscar Wilde's was to the nineteenth - from which he was the only protagonist to emerge with some dignity and honour. Ward became the targeted scapegoat of a furiously self-righteous Establishment. By no means a hero, he was a reluctant martyr, thanks to an unholy alliance between Press and police of a kind we can all too readily recognise today; inadvertently, he was the hinge between two worlds and the harbinger of a revolution in manners, music and morals when the ordered, stuffy, respectful universe of the fifties gave way to the classless, truculent, unstoppable sixties."

STEPHEN WARD was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and Don Black, beginning previews in the West End on December 3. For more information, check out a previous article on STEPHEN WARD here.

Visit the official STEPHEN WARD Facebook page here.

View the new behind the scenes clip of STEPHEN WARD featuring Alexander Hanson below.