1990s
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Titanic (1997)
In which yet again Maury Yeston proves that he can write moderately good music but doesn’t know what to do with it… oops, spoilers. And on the subject of spoilers: IT SINKS, so don’t get your hopes up: the only drama in this show is whether the actor playing the helmsman will announce “Fuck me,… Continue reading
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When Pigs Fly (1996)
This 1996 revue might be difficult to fully review for this reason: apparently it was very heavy on the costumes. Its conceiver and costume designer, Howard Crabtree, died shortly after the show was finished, which is rough luck (Jonathan Larsen would sympathise) and may explain why it doesn’t seem to have a large online presence;… Continue reading
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Whistle Down The Wind (1996)
In which Andrew Lloyd Webber is afflicted with envy that he didn’t get to write “Footloose”. So he decides what would be awesome would be to take a 1948 novel / 1961 movie set in the North of England about kids believing that a runaway criminal is Jesus Christ, and move it to the Okie… Continue reading