Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The Phantom Of The Opera (1986)
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom Of The Opera”. For my own benefit as much as yours, let me just recap what I’ve thought of ALW shows so far, in three words apiece. Aspects Of Love: WTF. Long. Eh.The Beautiful Game: Strained. Average. Tuneless.Bombay Dreams (he produced it): Percussion. Bollywood. Approved.By Jeeves: Wodehouse. Excellent. Surprising.Cats: WTF. Continue reading
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Starlight Express (1984)
I honestly didn’t expect this to be a show featuring plainly gay trains. My sister often remarks, “Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, said the trucks.” I’m not sure she’s ever seen this, but it could easily be a (short) review. The strangest thing about this show is the complete clash of tone between the Continue reading
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Sunset Boulevard (1991)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, never one to shy from a challenge, here takes on the task of musicalising the famous and critically-acclaimed 1950 Billy Wilder movie – the one which equally famously starts with a voiceover nominally spoken by that guy floating face-down in the pool. The story is of a wealthy but ghastly former silent-movie Continue reading
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Tell Me On A Sunday (1977)
Wow, this was disappointing, and it’s all in the execution, because this – read the extremely interesting backstory here on Wikipedia – is a very good concept for a show. There’s a great story to be told about a transatlantic relocation, of moving to a new world, and finding how that new world treats you, 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
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The Wizard of Oz (1987)
No, not the movie, but the next best thing – the movie brought to life on stage! Because – you demanded it! This dates from 1987 and was apparently the bright idea of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It is, literally, the movie brought to life on stage, which means it still hasn’t got much to Continue reading
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The Woman In White (2004)
At last, then, “The Woman In White”: this is an Andrew Lloyd Webber show from 2004, based on a Wilkie Collins novel from 1859, a novel involving a plot to steal a woman’s fortune, hugely popular at the time and still feted as one of the first mystery stories (the story hints at strange and Continue reading
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