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Post by steve10086 on Mar 15, 2018 7:41:08 GMT
So what were the six (?) musical performances during the event?
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Post by gra on Mar 15, 2018 8:21:27 GMT
All I ask of you
Pie Jesu
Memory
Sunset Boulevard
Gethsemane
Love Never Dies (with ALW accompanying)
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Post by steve10086 on Mar 15, 2018 9:23:12 GMT
Thanks, who were the performers?
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Post by demonbarber on Mar 15, 2018 11:49:53 GMT
Stick It to the Man - Cast of School of Rock
All I Ask of You - Michael Xavier and Celinde Shoenmacher
Gethsemane - Rory Taylor
Pie Jesu - Anna O’Byrne and Raphael Bellamy Plaice
Sunset Boulevard - Michael Xavier
Memory - Louise Dearman
Love Never Dies - Anna O’Byrne (with ALW on piano)
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Post by steve10086 on Mar 15, 2018 12:06:04 GMT
Thank you. I would love to have been there. But £75 to see a chat and those six songs was never going to be justifiable to my bank account.
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Post by tmesis on Mar 15, 2018 18:14:29 GMT
It's currently available in Tesco at half price (£10.)
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Post by steve10086 on Mar 16, 2018 19:28:04 GMT
Where does the new version of The Beauty Underneath on the Platimun Collection come from? Is this what it’s like in the US Tour?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 13:22:15 GMT
I’ve just picked this up from the library. I’m enjoying it immensely, even though I’ve only read the (one page-long) Prologue and the very first line of Chapter One entitled Overture and Beginners. From the Prologue I learnt that all Andrew has in common with Wagner is length.  And he opens his first chapter with: “Before me there was Mimi.” It’s already promising to be a good, camp romp through to the opening night of Phantom...(I’m not convinced that these memoirs are going to be 100% accurate judging from the photograph of Superstar. It sure ain’t from the original London production of the show although the caption would lead us to believe it is. Sometimes the fans have better memories than a show’s creators...) Edit- this is a bloody good read. He’s a great storyteller. Really... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 18:38:52 GMT
Where does the new version of The Beauty Underneath on the Platimun Collection come from? Is this what it’s like in the US Tour? I would assume so. Certainly this is the version they used in the Hamburg production which was the second sit down for what was basically the Aussie production. |
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Post by steve10086 on Mar 17, 2018 18:58:37 GMT
Where does the new version of The Beauty Underneath on the Platimun Collection come from? Is this what it’s like in the US Tour? I would assume so. Certainly this is the version they used in the Hamburg production which was the second sit down for what was basically the Aussie production. Thanks, can’t say I thought it was an improvement on the original. Shoehorning the original Phantom theme in seems a bit desperate too. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 18, 2018 0:04:13 GMT
I'm about 20 pages in and it's pretty entertaining!
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Post by anita on Mar 18, 2018 10:33:02 GMT
I'm enjoying it a lot. Very entertaining. I'm about 60 something in.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 14:05:56 GMT
I guessed you’d be enjoying it, anita ... I’m finding it very hard to put down- now 200 pages in... He’s a great storyteller, very real inasmuch as he repeats his favourite little sayings time and time again, as we all do. (“Full-frontal” crops up here, there and everywhere.) There’s an odd mixture of honesty, modesty, false modesty, self promotion with a sprinkling of forgetfulness. (He tells us about the casting of Dana Gillespie as Superstar’s Mary without remembering that she hurriedly replaced the one that had been sacked; he throws Elaine Paige’s name into the original cast list when she was replacement cast...) But I can forgive him as he’s incredibly witty and truly entertaining. I’m loving Auntie Vi who’s writing a ‘Gay Cookbook’ (in the 1960s this was quite a thing) and whose recipes include Boyar’s Soles. It’s not clear whether this is included in the chapter: “Too Many Cocks Spoil The Breath”. A favourite saying of hers he’s coined is “clotted bollocks on stilts” and the advice she gives him on entering a cock measuring contest backstage at the Palace Theatre is just priceless...! He’s coming across as far more likeable than the oddball we’ve all seen in the BBC talent-spotting programmes. Yes, it’s a tad long-winded, as has been mentioned in several newspaper reviews so far, and we could do without the ins and outs of contracts, but he’s openly gossipy, throwing all sorts of names about, which is making it a great read so far. Oh, and it’s comforting to read that even he acknowledges the “OSO” (the Obligatory Standing Ovation)! |
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Post by fiyero on Mar 18, 2018 19:40:24 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place for discussion of the accompanying album too but am I mistaken that there are no songs from The Likes of Us, Cricket and The Wizard of Oz? I love it but four from School of Rock seems too many too! (when they are all OBCR, no reinterpretations like they have for other shows)
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Post by CG on the loose on Mar 19, 2018 0:36:51 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place for discussion of the accompanying album too but am I mistaken that there are no songs from The Likes of Us, Cricket and The Wizard of Oz? I love it but four from School of Rock seems too many too! (when they are all OBCR, no reinterpretations like they have for other shows) You remind me that he said at the "In Conversation with..." event the other evening that after Phantom, things went off piste for a while, which he'd really rather not relive, but that he felt with School of Rock he got back on track... so Volume 3 would probably pick up there, and he may just leave Volume 2 unwritten! |
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Post by chrismis on Mar 19, 2018 22:44:44 GMT
Imagine-Andrew Lloyd Webber just about to start on BBC1
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Post by tonyloco on Mar 19, 2018 23:20:24 GMT
There’s an existing theatre in London named after a woman, there may be more actually but I immediately thought of one. I’ll leave it as a quiz question. I mean a specific named woman, I’m not accepting Queens Theatre etc. There's the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadlers Wells... Yes that's the one that occurred to me. Also, the Jeanetta Cochrane theatre in Holborn opened in 1964 and closed in 2012 to be demolished as part of a hotel redevelopment but the last time I was in the area a few months ago the theatre still seemed to be standing. The name was supposed to be transferred to a new theatre in Granary Square near King's Cross as part of the University of the Arts, London, but I can't find any reference on the internet to this having happened. |
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Post by loureviews on Mar 20, 2018 7:43:42 GMT
I have never known a theatre to be named after a choreographer and a lady, but there are always firsts and this is well deserved too, nice to name the New London Theatre, where Gillian had tremendous success with Cats. Cannot say I saw this announcement coming. There’s an existing theatre in London named after a woman, there may be more actually but I immediately thought of one. I’ll leave it as a quiz question. I mean a specific named woman, I’m not accepting Queens Theatre etc. The Questors in Ealing has the Judi Dench Playhouse as its main auditorium. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 20, 2018 8:51:15 GMT
Imagine-Andrew Lloyd Webber just about to start on BBC1 Very enjoyable it was too. Sarah Brightman though.... barely recognisable! I wonder who the new musical he has in mind is about. Someone who is still alive, he said. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2018 9:04:52 GMT
Loved this, excellent programme really enjoyed it. ALW has remained my favourite composer since his shows sparked my interest in musical theatre 32 years ago and I find him such an interesting character.
Small gripe though - whenever they make these programmes, my favourite show of all, Starlight Express, is always omitted or glossed over very quickly. 18 years in the West End is fairly monumental and I would love to hear ALW talk more about it.
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 20, 2018 13:19:18 GMT
The name was supposed to be transferred to a new theatre in Granary Square near King's Cross as part of the University of the Arts, London They decided, presumably because of its location and history, to call the new facility the Platform Theatre instead. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2018 17:13:24 GMT
Alan Yentob made a rather good voice over for this 90 minute special, I thought, and I particularly liked his gentle teasing of Andrew’s rather pompous nature which was evident even as a young boy!
The use of old films added to the context of his rather peculiar childhood, as did the revealing and much more interesting photographs than those used in Unmasked, the book, and I found it touching that his father’s compositions were used as background music to much of this footage.
Some of the highlights of this programme over the book (so far) was the interview with mysterious interloper John Lill, brother Julian dobbing him in for exaggeration (“I first fell in love with the cello when I was four, not three...!”) and Sarah Brightman making absolutely no sense whatsoever! (He’s obviously still head over heels in love with her...)
The BBC really should have checked the credit for the video of Music of the Night which was wrongly attributed to Ken Russell, and it was madness to make no mention of Variations and Sunday before the incredibly brief reference to Starlight. Why?
I loved the sight of the LP of Joseph- the same one that I used to borrow from the music library and play over and over again on my Dansette record player, and I think I preferred that stunningly beautiful and simple piano version of Pie Jesu.
Of course what I really loved was Andrew’s excitement when he rattled off all the shows he’d gone to as a youngster, during a kind of musicals Golden Age (My Fair Lady, Gigi, West Side Story, South Pacific...) with tears in his eyes, because his story is one that many of us have shared. Well it’s certainly my story. Although the Golden Age I experienced was largely down to his works.
Thank you for the music, Mr Lloyd Webber.
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Post by Jon on Mar 20, 2018 17:51:34 GMT
I do wonder if Sarah Brightman has considered doing a West End or Broadway comeback?
I am curious what ALW's new show is, Baz mentioned that one idea was about the relationship between Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams but given both are dead, I imagine it's not that.
Given ALW's love for My Fair Lady, I wonder if Drury Lane doesn't get Frozen after its refurb, they'll transfer the Lincoln Center production of My Fair Lady, would be a fitting way to reopen the theatre
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2018 17:57:07 GMT
I do wonder if Sarah Brightman has considered doing a West End or Broadway comeback? I am curious what ALW's new show is, Baz mentioned that one idea was about the relationship between Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams but given both are dead, I imagine it's not that. Given ALW's love for My Fair Lady, I wonder if Drury Lane doesn't get Frozen after its refurb, they'll transfer the Lincoln Center production of My Fair Lady, would be a fitting way to reopen the theatre God, I wish she would. She is bonkers but utterly fabulous and with an incredible range. A wonderful leading lady, she was underrated in 1986! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2018 18:00:37 GMT
It was madness to make no mention of Variations and Sunday before the incredibly brief reference to Starlight. Why? Twas ever thus sadly. Much as I love them, Cats and Phantom (and to a lesser extent Superstar and Evita) always hog the limelight. I really hope he writes his follow up. Would absolutely love to hear more on the writing and creating of Aspects, Whistle, Beautiful Game etc. And to hear it from the horses mouth on the behind the scenes antics of Sunset and Love Never Dies would be epic! |
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