Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1969) to Cinderella (2021), his work has been consistently seen on world stages. Before the COVID pandemic hit, Lloyd Webber had shows continually running in the West End for 48 years and on Broadway for 41. 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. Reopening in July 2021, the latter has been completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It is one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings has meant that considerable work has been undertaken across his theatre portfolio during the pandemic, including the complete re-modelling and re-seating of the Gillian Lynne.

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 was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. To mark his 70th birthday, his best-selling autobiography Unmasked was published by Harper Collins in March 2018.

With the fully staged production of Les Misérables open in the West End alongside Hamilton, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera, and with Miss Saigon open in Austria and Mary Poppins in Tokyo and Sydney, Cameron remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals, with over 50 shows either on or in pre-production internationally.

Cameron’s Original productions include Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats – the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4th decades – Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Little Shop of Horrors, Song and Dance, Tomfoolery, Martin Guerre, The Witches of Eastwick, Five Guys Named Moe and Side by Side by Sondheim. He also reinvented modern versions of Oliver!, Follies, Half A Sixpence, Barnum and My Fair Lady. His New Versions of Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Oliver! are now proving as successful as the original productions.

In 2013, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of Les Misérables which is the most successful movie ever of an original stage musical.

The sold-out staged concert of Les Misérables at the Gielgud Theatre in 2019 was also broadcast live to over 600 cinemas and is now the highest grossing one-night live event performance of all time – a unique achievement in the history of Musical Theatre and has enjoyed another successful five month season at the Sondheim, despite having a five month hiatus due to Covid.

Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21st century. They house many of London’s successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, has been rebuilt and renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim.

Music Theatre International, the world’s largest owner of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now one of Cameron’s companies.

Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and he is the first British producer to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame. In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with  Stephen Sondheim as his visiting professor. He is also the president of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Charles Hart was born in London and educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge. He has written words for musicals (The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, The Kissing-Dance, The Dreaming), opera (The Vampyr, BBC TV) and miscellaneous songs, as well as both words and music for television (Watching, Split Ends, Granada TV) and radio (Love Songs, BBC Radio). His Two Studies for String Quartet were performed by the Sacconi Quartet in 2005 at London’s Purcell Room.

Charles Hart’s photographs have appeared on posters and in playbills, as well as publications ranging from Attitude to the Daily Telegraph, and in 2003 he was one of three photographers to feature in an exhibition organized by UNICEF to celebrate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. He lives and works in London.

Maria Björnson® (1949-2002) designed extensively for theatre, opera and ballet. She received numerous awards for her The Phantom of the Opera designs, among them two Tony Awards, two Outer Critics’ Circle Awards and two Drama Critics’ Awards, all for Best Set and Costume. Other theatre credits include Aspects of Love, Follies, The Cherry Orchard, Measure for Measure, The Blue Angel, Camille, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Way of the World, Plenty, Phèdre, Britannicus, The Lulu Plays, Creditors, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lonely Road and The Cherry Orchard. Opera work includes productions at The Royal Opera House, La Scala, Bastille Opera, Teatro Verdi Maggio Musicale Florence, Teatro Carlo Felice, Batignano, Glyndebourne, Geneva, English National Opera, Netherlands Opera, Opera North, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera.

Additional awards include the Silver Medal for the Janacek Competition Prazké Quadriennale (1983); the Observer’s Experts’ Expert, The Designers’ Designer, in recognition of her contribution to theatre design (1990); and the 19th Franco Abbiato Prize (1999).

At the time of her death, Maria had completed designs for The Trojans (The Met), The Little Prince (Houston Grand Opera) and the set designs for Il Trovatore (Paris Opera), all three directed by Francesca Zambello.

®MARIA BJORNSON is a registered trade mark of the Prodan Romanian Cultural Foundation and is used under license.

Mick has designed the sound for numerous world premiere productions including: Saturday Night Fever (London, New York and worldwide), Bombay Dreams (London, New York), The Woman In White (London, New York), the largest ever production of Phantom Of The Opera (Las Vegas), the critically acclaimed West End production of Evita (London, Broadway, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Zorro The Musical (London, Paris and worldwide), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit productions of The Sound Of Music  (London, Toronto, UK Tour, Asia, Australia) and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London), Sister Act  (London, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Berlin),the world premiere of Love Never Dies  (London, Melbourne and Sydney, Tokyo, Hamburg, US Tour, UK Tour), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of The Wizard of Oz  (London, Toronto, US Tour, Australia), the world premiere of Betty Blue Eyes (London), the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Celebration (02 Arena London), The Phantom Of The Opera 25th Anniversary Celebration (Royal Albert Hall, London), Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of The Phantom Of The Opera (UK Tour, US Tour), the Broadway revival of Evita (New York, US Tour, Australia, China), Barnum (Chichester, UK Tour), Tim Rice’s From Here To Eternity (London), Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon (London, Tokyo, New York, UK Tour ,US Tour and worldwide), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock (New York, London, US Tour, Australia, China, UK Tour), Sunset Boulevard (English National Opera, London, New York),Cats Broadway revival (New York, US Tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester, London), Carousel (English National Opera, London), The Phantom Of The Opera 30^th Anniversary celebration(New York), Chess (English National Opera, London), New International Tour The Phantom Of The Opera (Worldwide 2019), Man of La Mancha (English National Opera, London), The Light in The Piazza (Royal Festival Hall), Les Misérables The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre 2019 London, Sondheim Theatre 2020 & 2021 London), The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour 2020), re opening of The Phantom of the Opera ( London 2021),re opening of Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre London 2021) School of Rock ( UK Tour), re opening of The Phantom of the Opera ( Broadway 2021), Miss Saigon (Vienna), Old Friends Stephen Sondheim Gala (Live at the Sondheim Theatre and live stream to The Prince Edward Theatre London).

Mick created all new sound designs for The Phantom of The Opera (London, New York, worldwide) and all new sound designs for Les Misérables (New York, worldwide) and most recently at the newly named Sondheim Theatre London.

Awards:

Olivier Award UK 2005 The Woman in White in London

Parnelli Award USA 2006 The Phantom of The Opera in Las Vegas

Green Room Award Australia 2011 Love Never Dies in Melbourne

Helpmann Award nominee Australia 2011 Love Never Dies in Melbourne

Broadway World Audience Award Canada 2013 Les Misérables in Toronto

Tony Award nominee USA 2014 Les Misérables in New York

Green Room Award nominee Australia 2014 Les Misérables in Sydney

Broadway World Audience Award UK 2014 Miss Saigon in London

Helpmann Award Australia 2015 Les Misérables in Melbourne

Drama Desk Award nominee USA 2016 School of Rock in New York

Broadway World Audience Award Asia 2016 Les Misérables in Manila

Drama Desk Award nominee USA 2017 Cats in New York

Green Room Award nominee Australia 2019 Evita at Sydney Opera House

Green Room Award Australia 2019 School of Rock in Melbourne

WhatsOnStage Award Nominee 2020 The Light in The Piazza London

Theatre: David Cullen has worked mainly as an orchestrator of musicals, most notably those of Andrew Lloyd Webber — Cats, Starlight Express, Song and Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind and The Beautiful Game. Other musicals which he has orchestrated include Abbacadabra, Jeeves, Shogun the Musical (in New York), Children of Eden, Edna — The Spectacle, Stepping Out and three London revivals: Can-Can, The Baker’s Wife and Carmen Jones. Records which he has arranged include the America album by the King’s Singers, Christmas with Kiri by Kiri Te Kanawa and I Am What I Am by Shirley Bassey. He both arranged and produced the albums Music of the Night for Cantabile and Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber for Julian Lloyd Webber. Film and television: Jesus Christ Superstar (Really Useful Films). David has orchestrated much film and television music for Carl Davis: Show People, The Crowd, The Thief of Baghdad, Our Hospitality and Champions. He provided the orchestrations for the Disney productions of Cinderella and Geppetto. He has contributed original themes and incidental music to three television series: The Bretts, Relative Strangers and Surgical Spirit. Awards: he won the New York Drama Desk Award for his orchestrations of The Phantom of the Opera and was nominated again the following year for Aspects of Love. David lives in East Sussex with his wife Jessie and children Poppy and Richard.

As an associate designer for Cameron Mackintosh, David has delivered Miss Saigon in Vienna, Old Friends – the Stephen Sondheim Gala in the West End, Oliver! in Tokyo and The Phantom of the Opera and the Les Misérables staged concert in the West End this year and previously The Phantom of the Opera UK tour and revived West End productions of Les Misérables and Hamilton, Miss Saigon in the West End and UK tour, Les Misérables as a UK tour, US tour, and in Tokyo, Mexico, São Paulo, Singapore, Manila, Seoul, Daegu and Half a Sixpence at Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End. Other associate roles include Twelve Angry Men at the Birmingham Rep and the West End, Annie and Man of La Mancha in São Paulo and Rio. As an assistant, he has worked on over forty theatre productions including Barnum, Funny Girl, Chaplin, Noises Off, Sister Act, No Man’s Land and Oliver!. David’s recent designs include The Wild Party and City of Angels for the Royal Academy of Music, The Sound of Music at Teatro Renault São Paulo, City of Arts in Rio de Janeiro, This is the Hour (a showcase of Claude-Michel Schönberg’s songs) at Royal Academy of Music, Hardboiled (nominated for an Offie Award for Best Design), David Copperfield and Writer’s Block for The Watermill Theatre, Idiot-Syncracy, Bilbao, and Tame Game and City, for Bloom Dance, which have toured internationally. Outside of theatre, David has designed a coffee shop within a Wren church in the City of London, and the restaurant Deli Ohio in Canton, Ohio and is currently designing an immersive exhibition of robotics in medicine.

Design Credits: Elf (2012 and 2018 US Tours), 1st Date, Mickey and Minnie’s Doorway to Magic and Noel (US Tour). Broadway credits as Associate Designer: King Kong, Miss Saigon, 1984, Paramour, Les Misérables, The Testament of Mary, Jekyll and Hyde, The Book of Mormon, Newsies, The Addams Family, Elf, Bonnie and Clyde, The House of Blue Leaves, Elling, Enron, Mary Stuart, The American Plan, Cyrano de Bergerac and Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life. National Tours as Associate Designer: Waterfall, Aladdin, Newsies, Dirty Dancing, The Wizard of Oz, The Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll and Hyde, Mary Poppins, Les Misérables and Beauty and the Beast.

Broadway associate lighting designer credits include: The Phantom of the Opera (US Tour), Wicked, South Pacific, Les Misérables, War Horse, The King and I, Thoroughly Modern Millie, My Fair Lady and Oslo. Design credits include: Nothing Gold Can Stay (Partial Comfort Productions), Proof (Hudson Stage Company), At Wit’s End, Quartet (Bristol Riverside Theatre), West Side Story, Oliver!, Mary Poppins, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan (Cardinal Stage), Hersheypark Summer and Christmas Shows (2015-2019), Guys and Dolls (Riverside Theatre), West Side Story, The King and I, Guys and Dolls, Flower Drum Song (AMTSJ), Fraulein Else (Theatre Five), The Tempest (Acting Company), Illustrated Radio Shows (Pickup Performance Company), The Gravity of Means (Manhattan Class Company) and four seasons with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Nic studied at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London gaining a BA Honours in Theatre Sound. He started his career as a sound mixer, including Cameron Mackintosh’s My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Marguerite and Mamma Mia!. Nic started his association with Mick Potter as the mixer on the 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Misérables and was involved in the 25th Anniversary Concert (O2 Arena, London). For Mick, he has mixed The Phantom of the Opera, The Wizard of Oz, Miss Saigon, Half A Sixpence, The Light in The Piazza at the Royal Festival Hall, and Carousel, Chess and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum. Nic is Associate Designer for Mick Potter on The Phantom of the Opera worldwide with productions including Moscow, Oberhausen, Stockholm, São Paulo, Copenhagen, World Tour, UK/Ireland Tour and London. Also, for Mick, Nic is Associate Designer for Les Misérables worldwide including productions in Spain, South Korea, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, São Paulo, Mexico City, US and UK/European Tours, and for Miss Saigon in Tokyo and Vienna.

Theatre credits include: The Phantom of the Opera (London, 25th Anniversary, UK Tour and International), Les Misérables (London, Staged Concert and International), Miss Saigon (London and International), Shrek (London and International), An American in Paris (London), King Lear (Chichester and London), Frozen: The Play (London), Lady Windermere’s Fan (London), The Book of Mormon (London), Hairspray (London), Gone with the Wind (London), Wicked (London), Lord of the Rings (London), Disney’s Aida (Germany), Cats (1st National Tour, Germany), Elisabeth (Germany) and Tabaluga and Lili (Germany). Film work: Spencer, Disney’s Maleficent, Disney’s Cinderella, Flawless and The Merchant of Venice. Award: UK Theatre Trust Award for Outstanding Achievement in Wigs and Make-Up.

Guy Simpson has been working as a Conductor, Orchestrator, Musical Director and Musical Supervisor for over 40 years.

He was recently the conductor of The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour, Musical Supervisor of Cinderella and Musical Director of Anna O’Byrne’s solo show Becoming Eliza. Later this tear he will conduct Do You Hear the People Sing – a concert of the music of Claude Michel Schonberg in the newly opened Opera House Concert Hall.

For Opera Australia he was Musical Director of Evita (starring Tina Arena), the 60th anniversary production of My Fair Lady (directed by Julie Andrews) and West Side Story (on the harbour).

Guy’s work on The Phantom of the Opera began in Australia in 1990 and has continued on and off for the past 30 years, conducting or supervising productions in Auckland, Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Brazil (in Portuguese), Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing and Seoul.

He has had a similar long association with Miss Saigon since 1994 – conducting or supervising productions in Australia, Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, Seoul, The Netherlands and Japan.

Other international productions include Cats (Australia, New Zealand), Chicago (Australia, Hong Kong) and We Will Rock You – the QUEEN musical (Australia, Japan)

Other productions in Australia – Muriel’s Wedding, The Wizard of Oz, Dream Lover, Prima Donna (the opera by Rufus Wainwright), Passion, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (starring Geoffrey Rush), Love Never Dies (the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera), Les Miserables, Cabaret, Company, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Pirates of Penzance, Snoopy, Seesaw, Zorba, Oklahoma!, Funny Girl, Call me Madam, Mack and Mabel, The Music Man, They’re Playing our Song, Carousel, Camelot, Little Me, Follies, Promises Promises, Gypsy and Guys and Dolls

As an orchestrator recent projects include the musicals Ladies in Black and Dream Lover.

As a producer of cast recordings he has produced the albums of Muriel’s Wedding and Dream Lover for Sony and 2 cast recordings of The Phantom of the Opera in Korea.

Hugh Hamilton has been Associate Lighting Designer on Hamilton, Come From Away, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, My Fair Lady, Wicked (Korea), The King and I, The Addams Family, Legally Blonde, Rock of Ages and Guys and Dolls. Hugh has also designed, amongst others, Miracle City, Sideshow (Hayes Theatre Co), One Billion Beats (CAC), Ladies Day (Griffin), I Am My Own Wife (Oriel), Eora Crossing, On the Case (Legs on the Wall), H.M.S. Pinafore (Bel Rosa Opera Company), Freefall (Sydney Dance Company), Del Del (Sydney Theatre Company) and Ursula (Brink Productions), as well as designing shows for dance companies, events and the site lighting for Opera Australia’s Turandot, Carmen and La Bohème. Internationally he has worked on The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Wicked, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon and Mamma Mia!.

In 1992, Shelly graduated with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Electronic Engineering, during which she commenced her now 32- year career in theatrical sound, initially as a Radio Mic Technician for System Sound. Shortly after, Shelly began mixing local and international productions such as Cats, West Side Story and Les Misérables regularly touring throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Shelly also spent time in London working for the highly reputable Autograph Sound Recording mixing on the West End. Since then, Shelly has been Sound Supervisor, Associate Designer or Sound Designer on numerous international productions which include The Sound of Music (Australia), Miss Saigon (Manila, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, International Tour), Les Misérables (Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Asia), Cats (South Africa, Beirut, International Tour, Korean Tent Tour), Oliver (Sydney, US Tour, Japan), The Witches of Eastwick (Australia), The Phantom of the Opera (Asia, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia), Sunset Boulevard (Australia), Billy Elliot (Australia), Love Never Dies (Australia, Japan), King Kong (Melbourne), Kinky Boots (Australia), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Australia) and School of Rock (Australia, China). Most recently, Shelly designed Opera Australia’s production of The Phantom of the Opera for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, and is currently the Associate Sound Designer on the Australian Tour of Mary Poppins, as well as this production of The Phantom of the Opera (Sydney Opera House). Shelly’s love of knowledge recently had her completing her post-graduate degree in Psychology, sparking a keen interest in the psychology of hearing and music. She thanks her family for their continuous support in pursuing her passions.

The Really Useful group is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatre producing and rights licensing company and controls the theatrical rights for all of Andrew’s works, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and School of Rock. The Really Useful Group reached over 20 million people across the globe last year from live theatre and concert audiences, cinemagoers, television viewers and music fans, to social media and art lovers.

2017 sees The Really Useful Group continue to work across film, television and theatre as it produces and develops new projects and partnerships worldwide alongside its ongoing work in education, amateur licensing and music publishing.

Erin began her journey into the arts industry as a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Bachelor of Arts – Music Theatre. After working as a dance captain, swing and Assistant Director for the last decade, her professional directorial debut came in 2018 with She Loves Me at Hayes Theatre Co. She was the Staging Supervisor for Julie Andrew’s production of My Fair Lady (Opera Australia), Assistant Director for Vernon God Little (2014) and Stalking The Bogeyman (2018) and the Resident Director of MOON – a choral theatrical work presented by The Australian Voices (2013). She directed the CONDA Award winning production of Mamma Mia! 2019 and The Very Popular Theatre Company’s CHESS in Concert, starring Silvie Paladino and David Harris, in 2021. Most recently she directed Cabaret and Les Miserables at the University of Adelaide for the Elder Conservatorium of Music’s Bachelor of Music Theatre course, as well as The Cabaret Project and Showcase 2021 at the same institution.

Erin’s professional performance career includes roles in Australian and international productions of South Pacific, CATS, My Fair Lady, The King and I, Blood Brothers, Fiddler on the Roof, Me and My Girl and Love Never Dies, solo performances both internationally and within Australia for corporate events, cabarets, independent theatrical works, and an AACTA award nomination for her role in the feature film The Little Death.

Anthony is a versatile Australian conductor, pianist, and composer. His performances have been described as ‘sensitive and intelligent’ (ArtsHub) and displaying ‘incredible showmanship’ (Tina Arena). For the international tour of West Side Story (Opera Australia/GWB entertainment/BB Group), Anthony conducted performances at renowned opera houses around the world, including the Berlin State Opera and Sydney Opera House. His involvement with the show continued, music supervising the 2021 Perth and Brisbane seasons.

As Musical Director for Australian International Productions, Anthony led concert performances in twelve cities throughout China. His other musical theatre credits include Evita (Opera Australia/Gordon Frost Organisation), Oklahoma! (The Production Company) and Chicago (Gordon Frost Organisation). Anthony has performed with a range of artists including US popstar Mario, Anthony Warlow, James Morrison, Lea Salonga and Dame Edna Everage. His other work spans the Victorian State Schools Spectacular, Opera Scholars Australia, and as Composer in Residence for Creative Innovation Global 2017-2019. Anthony achieved Monash University’s highest performance result in each year of study. In 2017, he was recipient of the prestigious Rob Guest Endowment Musician Award.