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The inside musical joke Andrew Lloyd Webber uses in every show

The composer Andrew Lloyd Webber talks to Front Row's Kirsty Lang about a technique he uses in every one of his musicals - writing a melody in the 7/8 time signature to "propel the action".

It's become a kind of inside joke for musicals, he says, and even appears in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.

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