POO: Andrew Lloyd-Webber

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Joseph=peerless genius.

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

"Jesus Christ Superstar" as perf. by Johnny Keating on the "Space Experience" LP. Amazing squelchy synth playing - you know, because it's a "Space Experience".

Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...
Has anyone heard "Down Through Summer" on the 4th Dreambabes compilation? The tune was obviously recycled by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber a decade later.

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

ugh, poo is right. get it away from me.

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Don't Know How To Love Him" has always been such a sad yet pretty little ditty, regardless of who penned it.

Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"Gethsemane". It could almost fit on the first King Crimson album.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

+ Jesus as angst-ridden hippie = classic. Not that I know ALW's stuff in depth though.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I really like the Julie Covington version of Evita.

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link

And I like the disco versions of 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina" and "Memory".

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

[i]"I Don't Know How To Love Him" has always been such a sad yet pretty little ditty, regardless of who penned it.[/i]

Mendelssohn. ;)

Joe (Joe), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

D'oh!

Joe (Joe), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

There's some great stuff on Evita, mainly (it must be said) due to the lyrics. You can't not be moved by Don't Cry For Me Argentina; that section when it breaks down, and Julie Covington (of course) whispers, "Have I said too much? There's nothing more I can think of to say to you." (flute trills...) "But all you have to do (pause) is look at me to know that every...word...is...true..." And then everything comes storming back in. Just fantastic.

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.

harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 21 January 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

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

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link

WHAT'S THE BUZZ EFF TEE Doublemothafucking YOU!

staggerlee, Friday, 10 July 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link

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

da croupier, Friday, 10 July 2009 03:29 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link

his untimely demise

Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

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”.

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

five years pass...

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

scott seward, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link

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

Turrican, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:14 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link

it's a tough listen even by ALW standards.

scott seward, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:20 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link

starlight express is a richard stilgoe collab iirc

feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link

nine months pass...

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 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

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


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