Jun 23, 2026 — 12:03:28 PM
Ensemble1763372746 said: "I've kept quiet for forty years, but I think it's finally time to respond to some of this nonsense....The original 1986 London production, which was successful and ran for three years, didn't really have a conventional book at all. It was conceived as a through-composed musical, where the story is told through the music and shaped into a coherent whole by the lyrics. That is how the piece should be judged—not by the standards of a traditional Broadway book musical....