The Sound of Music takes £25 million in nine months

The Financial Times reports today that Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sound of Music has taken an estimated £25 million in the nine months since it started its run in London's West End.

It is only a year since Connie Fisher won the BBC series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and won the right to star in the musical.

Since then Lee Mead has won another BBC One series, Any Dream Will Do, and has started to generate another flow of cash for Lord Lloyd-Webber with Joseph at the Adelphi Theatre.

Attendances at London theatres are running about 12% ahead of those in 2006 which totalled about 12.4 million with revenues of over £400 million.