Lyricist Don Black Reveals Revised STEPHEN WARD Will Be Unveiled Soon

In an interview with The Stage, Tony Award winning lyricist and book writer Don Black revealed that STEPHEN WARD will be making a reappearance on the stage after being re-worked. The musical has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics and book co-written by Black and Christopher Hampton. The show opened in 2013 in London and ran for almost four months.

The Stage asked Black, "Doesn't a little bit of you die when a show is less successful?" Black replied, "Very much so. It's not the writing I lament, but the wasted meetings and the wasted time."

Black also explains what he thinks went wrong with STEPHEN WARD. "I think it should have opened quietly, somewhere like the Almeida or Donmar Warehouse, without any of the expectations of a big Lloyd Webber musical. It was also a bad title. But we've written a new song for it recently, so we're working on it again, and it will be unveiled in the next year or two."

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Don Black is the lyricist behind a huge collection of popular hit songs including Diamonds are Forever, Born Free, Ben and Love Changes Everything. He served as both lyricist and book writer for Sunset Boulevard, for which he won two Tony Awards. His other lyricist credits include: Tell Me On A Sunday, Song and Dance, Bombay Dreams, Bar Mitzvah Boy, Aspects of Love, and Bonnie and Clyde.