― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Joe, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
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...
― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Mendelssohn. ;)
― Joe (Joe), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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 knowWell, maybe not that fine, but I'll survive anyhowI won't recall the names and places of this sad occasionBut 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.
― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 21 January 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
So his career is dead, isn't it? Or is it?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
WHAT'S THE BUZZ EFF TEE Doublemothafucking YOU!
― staggerlee, Friday, 10 July 2009 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
coincidentally learned today that he's working on a SEQUEL to phantom
― da croupier, Friday, 10 July 2009 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
my POO (for right now):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxxwNuTpdd8
― all we hear is lady o'gaga (donna rouge), Friday, 10 July 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
his untimely demise
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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”.
“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”.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 October 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 October 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha please let this be true.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 October 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The industrial band Holy Cow use to cover "39 Lashes". That was good for some goffic laffs.
― Sepultura Baroness-Cohen (bendy), Friday, 9 October 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
starlight express kinda sucks. man, i only made it through one side.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
This thread title is OTM if you don't read POO as an abbreviation.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
https://img0.etsystatic.com/058/0/7559244/il_570xN.698322490_6q2s.jpg
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
― bellendery hooks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
it's a tough listen even by ALW standards.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― bellendery hooks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
starlight express is a richard stilgoe collab iirc
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppReKBrXPVE&list=PL4twj_dUvXBEJ83Mq4JwHbz1UhnDMf-rY&index=2
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 July 2016 03:04 (eight years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 July 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link