Lloyd Webber set to revive musical in tribute to friend

Award-winning musical A Chorus Line is to be revived in the West End for the first time in  almost three and a half decades.

By The Newsroom

Published 8th Sep 2012, 08:23 BST

Andrew Lloyd Webber – whose theatre, the London Palladium, will host the show in February –said it would be a fitting tribute to late composer Marvin Hamlisch, who wrote the music.

The original production won nine Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize when it opened on Broadway in 1975. It opened in London the following year.

Bob Avian, the director of the new London version – which opens at the Palladium on February 2 – was behind a 2006 revival on Broadway.

Hamlisch, who died in August, also scored films such as Ordinary People and Sophie’s Choice and composed songs such as The Way We Were and Nobody Does It Better.

Lloyd Webber said: “Marvin Hamlisch was a great friend, and I can think of no more fitting tribute to him than this major revival.”