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The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber 1990 Tour

Programme Info on Sarah

SARAH BRIGHTMAN born in 1960, made her theatrical debut at the age of 13 in I and Albert at London's Piccadilly Theatre. At 16, she was a member of the Dance Group "Pans People" and then at 18 she joined Arlene Philips' pop group "Hot Gossip". In 1981, Miss Brightman performed in Cats at The New London Theatre as a member of the original cast. In 1982, she premiered Charles Strouse's opera for children, Nightingale, at the Buxton Festival. She repeated the role in London at The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Subsequently, Miss Brightman appeared in The Pirates of Penzance at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and performed Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance tot BBC-TV. In 1985, Miss Brightman premiered Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem in New York and London for which she received a Grammy nomination as Best New Classical Artist. In the same year she also played the role of Valencienne in The Merry Widow tot New Sadler's Wells Opera. Miss Brightman premiered the role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in October 1986 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. She subsequently premiered the role when the show opened on Broadway in January 1988, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Miss Brightman has performed in the 1985 and 1987 Royal Variety Shows and is also a successful British recording artist, with four Top 10 singles: "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" (1978), "Pie Jesu" (1985), "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986) and "All I Ask of You" (1986). She has had two No. 1 albums: Requiem (Classical Charts 1985) and The Phantom of the Opera (1987) and has appeared on the cast albums of Nightingale (1982) and Song & Dance (1984). In early 1988, Miss Brightman completed a recording of folk songs by Benjamin Britten (on the HMV-Angel label) and portrayed Carrie on the new MCA recording of Carousel. Her current recording "The Songs That Got Away" has recently been released by Polygram Records. Miss Brightman's recent live performances have included engagements at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, The Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow with The Moscow Philharmonic Society Orchestra and the Waldbuehne in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Miss Brightman has also currently been touring North America with The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber to great acclaim. Miss Brightman is married to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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