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An original love story by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton, set in Ireland during the troubles and telling a tale of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. The hopes and ambitions of friends in a football team are played out as they grow up and fall in and out of love - and in and out of trouble.

Music By Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics By Ben Elton
Book/Libretto by: Ben Elton
Choreography by: Meryl Tankard
Directed by: Robert Carsen
Type of Musical: West End
Opened: September 2000
Theatre: Cambridge Theatre (London)
Licensing Agent: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Music Publishing

Synopsis

As the sixties draw to a close, life is just beginning for a group of teenagers. Amongst them are Father O'Donnel's football team including Del and John who both have enough talent to make it big.

Their girlfriends, Mary and Christine are dreaming about what to do with their lives and worrying about the way their world is changing. Yearning for a time when they can live and love in peace, they all learn that escape from bigotry and intolerance will take all the courage they can muster.

Song List

Act I

Overture
The Beautiful Game
Clean The Kit
Don't Like You
God's Own Country
Let Us Love In Peace
The Final (A Game Of Two Halves)
The Craic
Our Kind Of Love
Let Us Love In Peace (Reprise)

Act II

The Happiest Day
To Have And To Hold
The First Time
I'd Rather Die On My Feet...
Our Kind Of Love (Reprise)
God's Own Country (Reprise)
Dead Zone
If This Is What We're Fighting For
Our Kind Of Love (Reprise)
The Beautiful Game (Reprise)

Cast List

Frank Grimes, Michael Shaeffer, Jamie Golding, Dale Meeks, Ben Goddard, David Shannon, Josie Walker, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Sharpe, Jonathan Ball, Michael Bernardin, Keith Bookman, James Bowden, Jenna Boyd, Sally Bourne, Kevin Cregan, Shonagh Daly, Nic Greenshields, Ben Heathcote, Mark Hilton, Michelle Hooper, Simon Humphrey, Christopher Key, David Lyons, Grant Murphy, Kelly O'Leary, Dianne Pilkington, Greta Rochford, Andrew Spillett, Alessandro Splendore, Paul Tarling & Hannah Tollman

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