Van Outen Tells Us All On a Sunday in May???

In addition to the opening of his revival of The Sound of Music, (See Today's News), composer-turned-producer Andrew Lloyd Webber spoke on last night's televised edition of The Frank Skinner Show about his new project with Denise Van Outen. As previously tipped in The Goss (See 3 May 2002), Lloyd Webber is resurrecting his song cycle Tell Me on a Sunday, written in 1979 for Marti Webb with lyrics by Don Black, for the TV presenter who took the West End and Broadway by storm in Chicago. Lloyd Webber confirmed that the new show was full steam ahead and would open in London, at an as-yet undisclosed venue, in May 2003, the same month as his much-anticipated revival of The Sound of Music. He said that Tell Me on a Sunday's original 40 minutes was being expanded to 90 minutes in a racier update for Van Outen. It's not the first time Lloyd Webber has revisited the one-act piece. In 1982, he combined it with dancer Wayne Sleep's ballet, Dash, to form Song and Dance, which played for two years at the West End's Palace Theatre. That show was subsequently seen on Broadway, starring Bernadette Peters, and revived in 1990 at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre. The story centres around an English girl who moves to New York and has various relationships with American men.

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