POO: Andrew Lloyd-Webber

I'll get me coat...

I do however have an answer: last track Side 1 of 'Variations'. Jazz- classical-rock, man. A woefully under-explored genre.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is an absolutely amazing musical. I actually mean this whole-heartedly and without an ounce of irony, I really truly love it.

The big thing I miss about high school is doing shows. We also did "West Side Story" and "The Sound Of Music" (I boycotted "The Music Man"). But, since none of those are ALW, I'll shut up about them.

Moving to other ALW works, I must admit a very soft spot for "McCavity" from "Cats" and "Think Of Me" from "Phantom".

Hey you punk, I played Mayor Shinn in my high school production of that. And it's on video too. ;-)

In the early eighties my parents saw Evita and got the recording of the NYC production with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, which I played to death (though at ten I admit I didn't quite get all the nuances to the story!). Know all of that by heart, to the point where I never bothered with the Madonna version because, well, I really didn't want the memories ruined! "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" for low key tenderness, "Rainbow Tour" for the arrangements, "High Flying Adored" for Patinkin's bravura lead, the slink of the one song (name escapes me) where Peron and Evita meet for the first time, "Good Night and Thank You" for the humorous bite, etc.

Didn't he write one for Boyzone a couple of years back? I seem to remember liking it, whatever it was called. I mean, it's no Westlife's "World Of Our Own", but still...

Mendelssohn. ;)

Another Suitcase In Another Hall is a great song too; it positively *defines* weary resignation:
Call in three months time, and I'll be fine I know
Well, maybe not that fine, but I'll survive anyhow
I won't recall the names and places of this sad occasion
But that's no consolation, here and now.

Oh yes. It's so conversational, so matter-of-fact that it could've been written by Joni Mitchell.

Thinks: do I need to own any Barbara Dickson records? She has a great voice on this one.

Most of JCS is good too, but a bit too rock for my tastes these days.

So his career is dead, isn't it? Or is it?

WHAT'S THE BUZZ EFF TEE Doublemothafucking YOU!

coincidentally learned today that he's working on a SEQUEL to phantom

my POO (for right now):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxxwNuTpdd8

his untimely demise

coincidentally learned today that he's working on a SEQUEL to phantom

Indeed:

Today, Thursday 8 October, Andrew Lloyd Webber unveils his brand new production “LOVE NEVER DIES” at a global launch in London. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long awaited new show will have its World Premiere in London at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 9 March 2010 followed by New York on Thursday 11 November and in Australia in 2011.

“LOVE NEVER DIES” continues the story of ‘The Phantom’, who has moved from his lair in the Paris Opera House to haunt the fairgrounds of Coney Island, far across the Atlantic. Set 10 years after the mysterious disappearance of ‘The Phantom’ from Paris, this show is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue...in which music and memory can play cruel tricks...and ‘The Phantom’ sets out to prove that, indeed, “LOVE NEVER DIES”.

I appreciate how if you go to this section you learn via the fake NYT backdrop about the 'MYSTERIOUS BUSINESSMAN BEHIND CONEY ISALND,' which shows they had copy editor problems even then.

Haha please let this be true.

The industrial band Holy Cow use to cover "39 Lashes". That was good for some goffic laffs.

starlight express kinda sucks. man, i only made it through one side.

This thread title is OTM if you don't read POO as an abbreviation.

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xp was watching a docu about British musicals with our Han over the weekend and they basically admitted Starlight Express is nothing without the staging

it's a tough listen even by ALW standards.

I fuck with Evita, Jesus Christ and Phantom, "Tell Me on a Sunday" and "Memory", maybe a bit of Joseph, never found anything to love in his later stuff

i will always love jesus christ superstar forever and ever. the rock god version. with ian and yvonne and the gang. and i will always have a nostalgic love for evita because i saw it with my sister on broadway with patti and mandy. but that's about it. never heard joseph soundtrack i don't think. maybe i would like that. i actually think le miz is better than any mod ALW i have heard. music-wise. better than the phantom or cats.

starlight express is a richard stilgoe collab iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppReKBrXPVE&list=PL4twj_dUvXBEJ83Mq4JwHbz1UhnDMf-rY&index=2

it's really not so good but i'm still fond of a few of the songs - "travel hopefully," "that was nearly us," "love's maze" - never seen a production of it until tnite tho

Don't cry for me Andrew Lloyd...

Patti Lupone on Andrew Lloyd Webber: “He’s a jerk. He’s a sad sack. He is the definition of sad sack.” https://t.co/UT8DU4f1i5

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) October 21, 2019