I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
#0I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:16am
Andrew Lloyd Webber....who is he, why was the joke funny. I have no idea who he is. Recently at a Barnes and Nobles I saw his name on a book and remembered the laughter from the play at the mention of his name. But I am confused. please Enlighten me thx
PS:I sat thier like an idiot while people were laughing all around me and i was just blinking
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
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#1re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:19amWow.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:20amthiiiiiiiiiiiis issssssss my song that goooooooooooooooes like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssss
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#3re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:32amhaha wow....
#4re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:34am
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me On A Sunday later combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game and The Woman in White. He composed the film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File, and a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass Requiem for which he won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition.
He has also produced in the West End and on Broadway not only his own work but the Olivier award-winning plays La Bête and Daisy Pulls It Off. In summer 2002 in London he presented the groundbreaking A R Rahman musical Bombay Dreams.
In 2004 he completed the film version of The Phantom of the Opera directed by Joel Schumacher.
His awards include seven Tonys, three Grammys, six Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, an International Emmy, the Praemium Imperiale and the Richard Rodgers award for Excellence in Musical Theatre.
He was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.
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Updated On: 6/26/05 at 11:34 AM
#5re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:38am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Weber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 194
is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. He has arguably been the most popular theatre composer of the late 20th century, with multiple musicals which have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. Throughout his career he has produced 15 musicals, 2 film scores, and a Latin requiem mass. He has also accumulated a number of honors, including seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an International Emmy, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 in South Kensington, England. He was the son of composer William Lloyd Webber and music teacher Jean Hermione Lloyd-Webber and brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, born in 1951.
His first wife was Sarah Hugill. They married on July 24, 1972 and had two children, Imogen (born March 31, 1977) and Nicholas (born July 2, 1979). Lloyd Webber and Hugill were divorced in 1983. He then married singer and dancer Sarah Brightman on March 22, 1984. Bad press associating from his casting Brightman as the lead in The Phantom of the Opera led to their divorce in 1990. He married his present wife, Madeleine Gurdon, on February 1, 1991, and had three more children: Alastair (born May 3, 1992), William (born August 24, 1993), and Isabella (born April 30, 1996).
He was knighted in 1992 and created a life peer in 1997 as Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire. (His peerage title is hyphenated, but his surname is not.) He is ranked 65th richest Briton in the Sunday Times Rich List 2005, with an estimated wealth of £700m.
Andrew Lloyd Webber first gained success at the age of 19, when he and Tim Rice were commissioned to write Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a high school in 1968. The musical was a hit; a slightly rewritten version was soon produced by the Edinburgh Festival. Lloyd Webber and Rice continued to collaborate and later produced Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and Evita (1975), both of which were released as albums before being brought to the stage. The two parted ways soon after, and Lloyd Webber's next large success was 1981's Cats. Webber defied convention by writing the score to existing lyrics, rather than the other way around. The lyrics were based on T.S. Eliot's 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which Lloyd Webber confessed was a childhood favourite. To date Cats has been the longest running Broadway musical, spanning a reign of more than twenty years. Next, he wrote Starlight Express, which was a commercial hit but panned by the critics. In 1986, he premiered his newest musical, The Phantom of the Opera, inspired by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel.
Many of his stage musicals have been taken onto the big screen. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) was directed by Norman Jewison, Evita (1996) was directed by Alan Parker, and most recently The Phantom of the Opera was directed by Joel Schumacher (and co-produced by Lloyd Webber). He was asked to write a piece for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics entitled Amigos Para Siempre. His many other musical theatre works include Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, Song and Dance, and The Beautiful Game.
He has also composed for film. In 1984 he took a different music style and composed a requiem in memory of his father who had died in 1982.
Lloyd Webber produced Bombay Dreams with Indian composer AR Rahman in 2002. His most recent London and soon to be Broadway hit is The Woman in White (2004) starring Michael Crawford.
Shows
* Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (196 (Tim Rice)
* Jesus Christ Superstar (1972) (Tim Rice)
* By Jeeves (1975) (Alan Ayckbourn)
* Evita (1976) (Tim Rice)
* Cats (1981) (based on T. S. Eliot in 1939)
* Song and Dance (1982) (Don Black)
* Starlight Express (1984) (Richard Stilgoe)
* The Phantom of the Opera (1986) (Richard Stilgoe/Charles Hart)(based on G. Leroux in 1911)
* Aspects of Love (1989) (Don Black/Charles Hart)
* Sunset Boulevard (1993) (Don Black/Christopher Hampton)
* Whistle Down the Wind (1997) (Jim Steinman)
* The Beautiful Game (2000) (Ben Elton)
* Tell Me On A Sunday (2003) (Don Black/Jackie Clune)
* The Woman in White (2004) (David Zippel)
ETA: Ah, Toon. Ya beat me to it. 
ozbwayfan
Chorus Member Joined: 6/12/05
#6re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:38am
No one tell, don't destroy the rare purity...
Seeing both Starlight Express and Whistle Down the Wind in the same day scarred me for life.
ozbwayfan
Chorus Member Joined: 6/12/05
#7re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:40amsomething rare and beautiful has died. innocence.
#8re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:45amWhat was this joke though? If it involved Sir ALW, it was somewhat funny...
LuvBroadwayHugs
Broadway Star Joined: 6/20/05
#9re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:48am
The joke was something to the effect of "you must put on a musical. But not an ALW!!" and all the knights and King Arthur are all holding their ears and screaming.
#10re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:58amI don't want to sound rude but if you haven't even heard of ALW what are you doing on a MUSICAL forum ? I am not saying you have to like him, you can hate him, but having never heard of him means that your knowledge of musicals is extremely limited. So if you don't know ALW, I don't even want to think what headache the names Larson, Sondheim, Guettel, Yazbek etc. are going to cause you ! Please forgive me again, I don't mean to insult you, but it just seems incomprehensible to me ! I have friends who have no relation at all with musical theater but they all know ALW ! Though I have to say that if your post was a joke, it was a good one !
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#11re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:02pmI still content if you have no idea who ALW is, you really have no need to attend the theatre...you took away a seat for a person who may have ACTUALLY enjoyed the show to the fullest...shame on you...
#12re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:23pmA lot of people didn't seem to get the "another hundred people just contracted the plague" joke at the performance I went to. Spamalot gets a somewhat skewed audience- lots of Python fans who aren't necessarily familiar with musicals. (BTW, it's a Company reference.)
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#13re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:26pmTry Google
#14re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:32pmmy Dear, if you don't know who ALW is, you are beyond "enlightening"........and no offense intended
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:35pm"Touched for the very first time"
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#16re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:41pm
bundy - this piques my curiosity, and raises a couple of questions:
1. Are you serious, or is this a joke?
2. How old are you?
3. What brought you to SPAMALOT - and this web-site?
And by the way, there is certainly no 'test' you must pass to be able to attend theatre, no matter what anyone might say.
#17re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:42pmDGrant, how did you not have to take the test? Namo made me take a test on day 1.....and frankly it was a killer! ;o)
#18re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:08pm
I mean, his/her icon is Mamma Mia....
And the title is...."I'm slow AT this joke".....
Updated On: 6/26/05 at 01:08 PM
#19re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:14pmIf you didn't know ALW. I don't want to know who you think Porter, Bernstein, Coleman, and Kander & Ebb are.
#20re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:20pmIs it bad that I envy this kid?
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#21re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:22pmWhat? Oh god...if you don't know who ALW is...you're theatre challenged. No offense...
#22re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:45pmwell yes i am a kid 16 to be exact and I dont get out much. What brought me to spamalot was Rocky Horror and Tim curry. What brought me to Mamma Mia is ABBA. Maybe my theatre knowledge is somewhat limited but i dont give a crap. And trust me the seat i had during the show was not a waste. I enjoyed the show very much. I just didnt get one joke. I never knew it hurt so much by asking a question. Thx for making my day guys I love Broadway the community is so Open to people.
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#24re: I am slow at this joke in Spamalot
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:52pm
I like punctuation, yes I do.
I like punctuation, how 'bout you?
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