Editing Song and Dance (section)

==Background==
The ''Song'' portion was written specifically for [[Marti Webb]], and presented at the [[Sydmonton Festival]] in the summer of 1979. It was subsequently recorded and aired as a one-hour television special by the [[BBC]] the following January.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber|last=Richmond|first=Keith|publisher=Virgin Publishing|year=1995|isbn=185227557X|location=London, England|pages=[https://archive.org/details/musicalsofandrew00rich/page/69 69, 81, 82]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/musicalsofandrew00rich/page/69}}</ref> The ''Dance'' portion was recorded in 1978, and nearly became incorporated into ''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]''. The opening sequence was utilized as the theme music for London Weekend Television's ''[[South Bank Show]]''.

Producer [[Cameron Mackintosh]] proposed that the two pieces be combined under the umbrella title ''Song and Dance'' to acknowledge the primary aspect of each act, billing the piece as "a concert for the theatre".<ref name=":0" />

Black altered some of the songs from the original album and worked with Lloyd Webber on new material: "The Last Man in My Life", "I Love New York" and "Married Man", the latter set to the same tune as "Sheldon Bloom". A new orchestration of the ''Variations'' for a sixteen-piece theatre orchestra was produced from the original symphonic version played by the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] but [[Harry Rabinowitz]] retained the baton for the stage production. "When You Want to Fall in Love", with a tune previously released by Marti Webb and [[Justin Hayward]] as "Unexpected Song" which itself was later added to the score, was used at the climax of the dance section to meld the two halves.<ref name=":0" />