The Beautiful Game is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton about a group of teenagers growing up amid religious intolerance in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1969.

The title of the musical is taken from the Pelé's autobiography "My Life and the Beautiful Game", and is a common nickname for the game of football (soccer).

The musical opened September 26, 2000 at the Cambridge Theatre in London and closed September 1, 2001, after a total run of slightly more than 11 months.

The plot, which centers around a local football (soccer) team, focuses on two teenage footballers attempting to overcome religious intolerance and violence that has engulfed their community.

The most successful song from the score was "Our Kind of Love".

List of Songs:

ACT ONE

• Overture
• The Beautiful Game
• Clean the Kit
• Don't Like You
• God's Own Country
• God's Own Country - (Protestant March)
• Let Us Love in Peace
• The Final (A Game Of Two Halves)
• Off To The Party
• The Craic
• Don't Like You (reprise)
• Our Kind of Love
• Let Us Love In Peace (reprise)

ACT TWO

• The Happiest Day
• To Have And To Hold
• The First Time
• I'd Rather Die On My Feet Than Live On My Knees
• God's Own Country (reprise)
• The Selection
• Dead Zone
• If This Is What We're Fighting For
• All The Love I Have
• Finale

External links

• Albemarle-London.com on 'The Beautiful Game'
• Musicaltheatre.org on 'The Beautiful Game'