Angela Lansbury in Sunset Boulevard — Page 2

"I really don't think Sondheim would have done a very good job with it, and I think it really needed the big orchestrations that Lloyd Webber for the most part delivered upon."

Well if you're incinuating that Sondheim can't do big orchestrations, you're very wrong. And that's really a collaboration between the orchestrator and the composer. Listen to Follies and then tell me he can't write grand compositions.

I still think Sunset Boulevard written by Jerry Herman would have been sensational.

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Mister Russell

Did you not like it? Please clarify your statements

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Thankyou "Barnaby151"! In all honesty, I don't get why so many posters dislike Andrew Lloyd Webber? Is it because he is extremely success in a field where no one can really be a multi-millionaire? Does Sondheim even like musical theatre that much? No! And I actually don't mind Lloyd Webber ripping off from his own music..there great songs and they sold before and they'll sell again.

My problem with ALW is that he doesn't have a clue as to how a musical should be structured. He writes gorgeous melodies but he hasn't any idea how to spot them effectively in a story. The two big numbers from SUNSET simply recap what has just been covered in the text without adding anything more. I know about "savoring the moment" but instead of drawing us into Norma's private world, it bores us with repetition. We learn nothing new. Music (and lyrics) must enrich the show, not merely be a bottle of chocolate fudge sauce poured all over everything to make it “sweeter.”

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