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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Aspects of Love review – a preposterous blast from the past

Danielle de Niese (Giulietta) and Laura Pitt-Pulford (Rose), centre, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects Of Love.
Danielle de Niese (Giulietta) and Laura Pitt-Pulford (Rose), centre, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects Of Love. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

If Aspects of Love is a blast from the past for some of us, it must surely be a nostalgia fest for Michael Ball, who played the musical’s young lover Alex when it premiered in 1989, and found himself propelled into the pop charts with its signature ballad, Love Changes Everything.

It was Ball’s suggestion that this story of Parisian love triangles and romantic family entanglements be revived, with the star now playing Alex’s uncle, George.

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