Charlotte Blackledge Talks STEPHEN WARD In New Featurette

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's hotly anticipated new musical STEPHEN WARD begins previews in the West End at the beginning of next month and a new featurette spotlighting one of the show's stars, Charlotte Blackledge, is now available to view.

Blackledge reveals insight into her real-life-based character while also imparting her enthusiasm for the project itself in the new promotional clip just released.

"It's fun, it's sexy, it's smart, it challenges you - I think people are going to be really surprised," Blackledge asserts.

"I think people are really going to enjoy it," Blackledge adds.

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 features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton as well as direction by Richard Eyre. The musical begins previews in the West End on December 3. For more information, check out a previous article on STEPHEN WARD here.

Pre-order the original London cast recording of STEPHEN WARD here.

View the new featurette on STEPHEN WARD with Charlotte Blackledge below.