Far Out! Sarah Brightman Will Sing New Andrew Lloyd Webber Music from Space

Stage icon and final frontier enthusiast Sarah Brightman is one giant leap closer to outer space, and she’s already working on her playlist. The international recording star is collaborating with her former husband Andrew Lloyd Webber on new music that she will perform during her extraterrestrial outing.

“I’m trying to find a piece that is beautiful and simple in its message,” the original Phantom star said during a March 10 press conference. The performance will take place towards the end of her 10-day mission since it can take up to seven days to acclimate to space. "To sing in microgravity is very, very different thing to singing down here," Brightman said. "Here, you are grounded, you have the air around you. This is going to be very different." 

In addition to Phantom, Brightman starred on Broadway in her Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love and in London in Cats and Song and Dance. She is also at work on a forthcoming retrospective of his music.

Brightman is set to embark on the big trip to the International Space Station on September 1, having dropped $52 million on the round-trip ticket and training in Russia. She’s been ready for this journey for quite some time. She did lose her heart to a starship trooper, after all.