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Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. Lloyd Webber has had shows running continually in the West End for 50 years.

When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021, the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It was one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings.

Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed anthems for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and for two Olympic ceremonies, including “Amigos Para Siempre”, the official song of the 1992 summer games in Barcelona. He wrote “Let Us Love In Peace” for the aftermath of the attacks on The World Trade Centre, wrote and performed “Sing” with Gary Barlow at Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, and curated musical theatre performances for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee concert in June 2022. In May 2023, a new anthem composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber was performed at the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.

Don Black received two Tony Awards for Best Book and Lyrics of a Musical for his work (with Christopher Hampton) on Sunset Boulevard, which marked his third collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber. They first joined forces to write the song cycle ‘Tell Me On A Sunday,’ which developed to form the basis of the stage show Song and Dance. They were reunited again for Aspects of Love. He also wrote the lyrics for the Andrew Lloyd Webber produced Bombay Dreams. Awards include an Oscar for his song ‘Born Free;’ five Academy Award nominations; two Tony Awards and three Tony nominations; six Ivor Novello Awards; a Golden Globe, and many platinum and gold discs. He has written a quintet of James Bond theme songs: ‘Thunderball,’ ‘Diamonds Are Forever,’ ‘The Man With The Golden Gun,’ ‘Surrender’ from Tomorrow Never Dies and ‘The World Is Not Enough’. Among his many popular songs are two U.S. number ones – ‘Ben’ for Michael Jackson and ‘To Sir With Love’ for Lulu. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. In The Queen’s Honours List he received the Order of the British Empire. Earlier this year he was awarded an Olivier award for his outstanding services to theatre. Most recently he wrote his critically acclaimed memoir ‘The Sanest Guy In The Room,’ which featured in the Sunday Times Bestsellers list. His musical of Bonnie and Clyde had a successful West End run at the Garrick Theatre and his next project which he wrote with Christopher Hampton and George Fenton is a musical version of the classic film The Third Man.

Christopher Hampton became involved in theatre while studying French and German at Oxford University, and wrote a play in his first year. The Royal Court’s subsequent production was so successful that it transferred to the Comedy Theatre while he was still a student, making him the youngest writer ever to have a play performed in the West End – a record which still stands. He said at the time that he also hoped to become the oldest writer to have a play in the West End, an ambition he has yet to achieve.

His plays, musicals and translations have so far garnered four Tony Awards, three Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards and the New York Theatre Critics; Circle Award; prizes for his film and television work include two Oscars, three BAFTAs, a Writer’s Guild of America Award, the Prix Italia, a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year, and The Collateral Award at the Venice Film Festival for Best Literary Adaptation. His musicals include Sunset Boulevard, Dracula: The Musical, Stephen Ward and most recently, The Third Man, all with Don Black. Many translations include the German musical based on Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, opening September 2023. Hampton’s screenplays include The Son, The Father, Perfect Mothers, A Dangerous Method, Chéri, Atonement, Imagining Argentina (which he also directed), The Quiet American, The Secret Agent (which he also directed), Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse and Carrington (the first film he also directed).

Paul lives in London. Directing credits include: Tell Me On a Sunday; Sunset Boulevard, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night time, Evita, Hair, Chess; Jesus Christ Superstar, Xanadu; Little Women; The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 

Paul has been Associate Director to Matthew Warchus for Groundhog Day The Musical (The Old Vic / Broadway / Australia) and Ghost The Musical (West End / Australia / International tour / North American Tour /South Korea). Other credits as Associate include Waiting for Godot starring Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart (West End) and Aladdin (The Old Vic).

West End and London include Sister Act (Eventim Apollo/UK Tour. Nominated for WhatsOnStage Award for Best Set Design and Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium/UK Tour/Australian Tour/Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto. Nominated for Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival); Disney’s Newsies (Troubadour Theatre. Nominated for WhatsOnStage Award for Best Set Design and Best New Musical); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello Theatre); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre/UK Tour); Forbidden Broadway (Vaudeville Theatre/Menier Chocolate Factory); Midnight Tango(Phoenix Theatre/Aldwych Theatre/UK Tours);Dance ’til Dawn (Aldwych Theatre/UK Tour); Ruthless! (Arts Theatre); Flashdance (Shaftesbury Theatre); Sign of the Times (Duchess Theatre);Footloose (Playhouse Theatre/Novello Theatre/UK Tour/South Africa); Sleepless (Set Design, Troubadour Wembley Park); Guys and Dolls (Royal Albert Hall); Violet, The Woman in White, Death Takes a Holiday (Set Design, Charing Cross Theatre); Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory/US Tour); The Christmasaurus (Hammersmith Apollo).

Other credits include Frank and Percy (The Other Palace/Theatre Royal Windsor); I Think We Are Alone (Frantic Assembly); Alone Together (Theatre Royal Windsor); The Enemy of the People,  Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast (Nottingham Playhouse); Othello, Lives in Art (Sheffield Crucible); Our New Girl (Bush Theatre); The Lady Vanishes, Rain Man (Bill Kenwright Ltd); Top Hat (Set Design), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Kilworth House);George’s Marvellous Medicine (Leicester Curve/UK Tour); Deathtrap (Salisbury Playhouse/UK Tour);Room on the Broom (Lyric Theatre/Garrick Theatre/World Tour); UK tours of Fatal Attraction, Rock of Ages, Fame!, Love Me Tender, Tango Moderno.

International credits include Wicked (Santander Theatre, São Paulo); Spotlight Bar (Princess Cruises); Evita (Villa Lobos Park, São Paulo); She Loves You (Tivoli Theatre, Copenhagen/Musikhuset Aarhus); Tell Me on a Sunday (Set Design, Majestic Theatre, Shanghai/RUG); The Life of the Party(TheatreWorks, California/Menier Chocolate Factory).

Awards include UK Theatre Award for Best Design for Wonderland; Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Play for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Ashley’s film credits include The Greatest Showman, Jingle Jangle a Christmas journey, Argylle, Disney’s Descendants 4, Friends with Benefits , Cinderella for Amazon prime and the Robbie Williams biopic soon to be released Better Man. Ashley has also worked extensively in the music industry choreographing world tours for Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams and Hugh Jackman.He has also worked with Pink, FKA Twigs and Will Young on various tours, music videos and tv performances. Ashley also worked with Matthew Warchus choreographing Ghost the musical for the West End and Broadway productions.

Kristen is pleased to return to Australia for this production of Sunset Boulevard; her first time back since The Phantom of the Opera debuted here in 1990. As a long time New York based Music Supervisor, conductor and musician she considers herself blessed to have been associated with over 50 productions in the US, Broadway and Internationally.

Kristen has been associated with Andrew Lloyd Webber since 1982 and was an original member of the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera and additionally has been responsible for 18 productions around the world.

Other Broadway and international credits include: CATS, Sunset Boulevard, Love Never Dies, Woman in White, Evita with Ricky Martin, Jesus Christ Superstar, Bad Cinderella, Hal Prince’s Lovemusik, Mary Poppins; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sweeney Todd with Josh Groban and A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta Jones.

Kristen made her conducting debut in mainland China with the Shanghai Symphony and Beijing’s China Philharmonic in concerts with Deborah Voigt.

Was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002,2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design, the 2013 and 2014 Whatsonstage lighting design award, he was awarded a Tony in 2006 and has also received a Welsh BAFTA.

Has lit extensively for all the major theatre, opera and dance companies in the UK and has lit over 80 West End productions notably Chitty Bang Bang Chitty, The Iceman Cometh, The Judas Kiss, Copenhagen, Democracy, Hamlet, The Real Thing (all also on Broadway ), The Sound of Music, Our House, Up for Grabs, Grease is the Word, West Side Story, Spend Spend Spend, Neville’s Island, Follies, Passion, Enron, All My Sons, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Sweeney Todd, American Buffalo, The Bodyguard, Gypsy, Funny Girl, The Unfriend, The Girl From the North Country, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat.

Mark has lit over 90 productions for the Royal National Theatre and over 30 on Broadway.

Work in opera includes productions for ENO, The Royal Opera, WNO, Opera North, Glyndebourne, Met Opera New York. Dance productions includes work for LCDT, The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet, SWRB, Rambert Dance Company, English National Ballet, Finnish National Ballet.

In 2014 Mark designed the lighting for the Kate Bush live show “Before the Dawn”.

George is an award winning UK based video and projection designer whose work can been seen across the UK and internationally.

Video design credits include: Hercules, Tarzan (Disney Theatrical); Sondheim Old Friends (West End); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Broadway, West End, Edinburgh Fringe, Turbine Theatre); In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse/Toronto); The Lord Of The Rings (Watermill); Hey Duggee The Live Theatre Show (Royal Festival Hall and UK Tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre); Notes From a Small Island (Watermill Theatre); Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Hope Mill Theatre); Dawn French Is A Huge Tw*t! (UK Tour); Sandi Toksvig – Next Slide Please (UK Tour); SIX (London & Broadway); The Sound of Music (National Tour); Gypsy (Alexandra Palace); A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre); Now Is Good (Story House, Chester) RENT, The WIZ & Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill Theatre); But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); The Pleasure Garden, Dick Whittington & The Convert (Above The Stag); Avalanche (Bloom Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (UK and UAE Tour); Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & WANNABE (UK tour); Cinderella In Concert (Cadogan Hall); Noise Boys (Norwegian Cruise Line); Musicals In Concert (Palladium, Stuttgart).

Associate Design and Animator credits include: Frozen (Theatre Royal Drury Lane & Theatre an der Elbe); Anastasia (International Associate Designer); Les Misérables (Gielgud, Sondheim Theatre & Uk Tour); SpongeBob Live Television Broadcast (Nickelodeon), Starstruck (ITV); Frozen (North American Tour); TINA (Aldwych & Hamburg); Paramour (Cirque Du Soleil); Divas For Democracy (StageIt Stream); The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Flight (Royal Caribbean); Aladdin (Walt Disney Co.); Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Co.); All My Sons (Broadway).

George won the award for Best Video Design in the 2023 Broadway World UK/West End Awards for his work on The Lord Of The Rings at the Watermill Theatre. He was also an Offie 2022 Finalist for Best Video Design for his work on The Pleasure Garden at Above the Stag.

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David, is a theatre-sound Designer, Engineer and Senior Supervisor for System Sound Australia. He has been Head of Sound for many productions including Cats, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Phantom of The Opera, Mama Mia, and Sunset Boulevard.

He has Production Engineered and Sound Supervised productions such as Miss Saigon, Love Never Dies, Les Miserables, Matilda, Billy Elliot, Wicked,Mamma Mia, King Kong, Evita, Phantom of The Opera, School of Rock, Kinky Boots and Come From Away throughout Australia, Asia, South America and South Africa.

David designed the sound for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Funny Girl in Australia, Dream Girls in Kuala Lumpur, Ultimate Broadway in China and the opening of the Shanghai Cultural Centre. He has been Associate Sound Designer for Australian and international productions such as Georgy Girl, War Horse, Book Of Mormon, Billy Elliot, Girl From The North Country, 2:22 A Ghost Story, and Matilda the Musical.

David currently is Associate Sound Designer for Moulin Rouge Australia, Korea and Japan, Ground Hog Day, A Christmas Carol and Wicked Australia.