Anti-Andrew Lloyd Webbers, unite! — Page 2

I think you pose an interesting question. I wonder just how many performers he has employed in the last 25 years. Cats and Phantom alone must be in the thousands with all the productions around the world. Good for him.

i love aspects of love

i love evita, jcs, and phantom

i enjoyed listening to whistle down the wind, it was so different.

i don't know how anyone can HATE andrew loyd webber since his work has been so infulencial since the late 60's with joseph into jcs, then into evita, cats, phantom and so on.

lloyd webber always has those token songs from each show, you have to admit you like them.

yes i just think it's ridiculous for people to say they hate webber when i know they used to hum the phantom score, or sing along to evita the movie.

just because you love sondheim, doesnt automatically meanyou have to hate webber!

I wouldn't say that I'm anti-ALW, but I think of all his shows, JCS is the most coherent and interesting. Starlight Express is... yeah, Phantom didn't impress me, etc. I think that he's good at power-songs, but sometimes the transitions are muddy and the story weak.

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I can't believe I'm responding to this, but here's the difference between Sondheim and Webber (as I see it):

Webber writes some really great songs.

Sondheim writes some really great shows.

In a cabaret setting, give me a Webber song because they are generic enough to be squeezed into different situations.

However, as an actor doing a full production, give me Sondheim any day of the week and twice on Sunday. His shows are an absolute joy to perform.

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honestly, id rather hear a concert of alw's better songs than sit through any one of his shows. that way i can hear music of the night, memory, superstar, oh what a cirus, as if we never said goodbye, etc. etc., and not have to sit through the entire shows. i loved cats when i was younger, but it grew very tiresome for me when i got older, and ive never been a phantom "phan". i have to agree with the crowd and say that jcs is his best work, which was an awful long time ago, but im willing to give any of his new shows a chance.

as for sondheim, i personally favor him over webber, i feel that his shows are more stirring and provocative. and though i prefer any of sondheims work over wicked, id take wicked over having to watch the d*mn jellical ball again.

leomax... actually you can say hes written quality work... but he hasn't produced quality work. Cameron produced ALW's hit. ALW has produced his flops, Sunset, Aspects of Love, Whistle Down the Wind (Money down the drain), By Jeeves, etc.

i mean producing as completing work, like a factory that makes widgets..not the monetary form of producing. sorry if that was confusing..of course i didn't mean as a Producer

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NO! sunset blvd. is a classic film, there need be no movie musical of that mess, billy widler came close to achieving cinematic perfection without the help of alw, its bad enough that a musical was made of it at all.

I'm rather upset about The Beautiful Game not being a smash. Its one of my favourite pieces of work of his. I think he is a fantastic composer, and just like any other composers, he has made "flops" AND "smashes". Who cares if you like him or not? He has his won style and ablities just like Sondhiem, or Schwartz or Gershwin or whatever composer you can think of. I'm willing to bet that no one out there can clone his writing abilities. The ones of you that "hate" him, thats alright because its your own taste. But there is no way you can say that the man has no talent. YOU try writing the music he has. If you do better, I will applaud gratefully. But UNTIl that day comes, I will stand by thinking he is a genius in writing music.

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you mean "two CENTS"...right?

d.b.j

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I've just watched the Glenn Carter JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR version - and the music and lyrics continue to give one the gossebumps.

I agree that A BEAUTIFUL GAME should have been given a chance for wider exposure - very good musical score in a contemporary setting. Very hard on the emotions.

Jo