Andrew Lloyd Webber Goes From Hospital To Recording Studio For STEPHEN WARD

Internationally celebrated composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is receiving ongoing medical attention for a recent series of health conditions including prostate cancer treatment and multiple back surgeries yet he has taken to social media to share updates both private and professional - including finding the time to attend and oversee first recording sessions for the original cast recording of his new musical, STEPHEN WARD.

Earlier this week, Lloyd Webber posted a message on Facebook, reading, "Just out of hospital. 14th general anaesthetic this year! But really excited, the Stephen Ward the Musical album starts today, and we are in the theatre at last! ALW."

Additionally, a photo of Lloyd Webber at the boards in the recording studio where sessions for the cast album of STEPHEN WARD are currently taking place was posted to social media, as well.

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. Visit the official STEPHEN WARD Facebook page here.

Also, see previous coverage of Andrew Lloyd Webber attending rehearsals for STEPHEN WARD late last month, available here.

View a larger version of the photo of Andrew Lloyd Webber in the studio recording STEPHEN WARD below.

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