Song and Dance

Song and Dance opened in London on 26th March 1982, after Variations, a musical piece composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber for his brother Julian, was combined with Tell Me On A Sunday, written with Don Black.

Variations was choreographed by Anthony van Laast, and had an electric team of dancers including Wayne Sleep, Graham Fletcher, Sandy Strallen, Linda Mae Brewer and Jane Darling.

This work was then combined with Tell Me on a Sunday (an Andrew Lloyd Webber/Don Black song cycle) to produce Song and Dance. The show opened in London at the Palace Theatre and enjoyed a run of 781 performances, closing on 31st March 1984. The title song, “Tell Me on a Sunday”, was sung by Marti Webb originally and subsequently by, amongst others, Gemma Craven, Carol Nielsson, Lulu and Liz Robertson.

Song and Dance was subsequently presented in Australia, the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway and Holland. In a slightly rewritten form, the show ran on Broadway for over a year to a great public response. 1987 saw the worldwide release of a new orchestral version of Variations, together with an orchestral tone poem called Aurora, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s father.