Andrew Lloyd Webber Orchestrates With A Catty Collaborator

Internationally celebrated composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is in the midst of finalizing his score for his newest stage musical STEPHEN WARD in preparation for the recording of the original London cast album of the West End production kicking off next month and has shared yet another glimpse behind the scenes into his creative process at this critical time.

No, it's actually not CATS - at least not quite!

Lloyd Webber shared a photo of one of his feline friends, named Ozzy, laying cozily on the mixing board where Webber is currently finishing up orchestrating STEPHEN WARD.

Taking to his Twitter account, Lloyd Webber amusingly wrote, "Introducing Ozzy, my co-orchestrator for @SWardMusical. ALW." #StephenWard?".

Yesterday, Lloyd Webber shared another update, exhibiting his excitement about recent recording sessions being conducted (as BroadwayWorld reported here), writing, "Good day in the studio y'day. Exciting to hear my orchestrations for @SWardMusical for the first time, played by a wonderful young band. ALW".

Earlier this week, 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.

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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, 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 Ozzy orchestrating STEPHEN WARD below. Meow-sical!

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