Sydmonton Festival

The Sydmonton Festival is a summer arts festival held in a secular 16th century chapel on the grounds of Sydmonton Court, Andrew Lloyd Webber's estate . The estate is located in Hampshire , about 85 kilometers south-west of London .

The festival was founded in September 1975. The aim is to present new works to a group of people from the theater, film and television industry in a private performance in order to determine their future potential with regard to further marketing.

Lloyd Webber's projects publicly performed for the first time at the festival include Evita , Variations , Tell Me on a Sunday , Cats , Starlight Express , Aspects of Love , The Phantom of the Opera , Sunset Boulevard , Whistle Down the Wind , By Jeeves , The Beautiful Game , The Woman in White , The Likes of Us , and Love Never Dies .

Other projects that premiered here were Nunc Dimittis , Masquerade and Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day by Rod Argent , Cafe Puccini by Robin Ray , Girlfriends by Howard Goodall and Richard Curtis, Love Songs by Charles Hart, La Bête by David Hirson, Yosopv by Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel and Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor .

literature

• Stoddard, Sylvia (Fall 1993). "A Journey Down $ un $ set B £ vd". Show music. Square One. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
• Citron, Stephen, Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical. New York, New York: Oxford University Press 2001. ISBN 0-19-509601-0 . p. 15th