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How would you react if...
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#1How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 4:11pm
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim announced they'd be writing a musical together? :P
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#1re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 4:13pmI'd be surprised, intrigued and would wonder who is writing the music.
#2re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 4:14pmI would call Sondheim's therapist as clearly he would be off his meds.
#3re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 4:15pm
It could be worse. Could be Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Schwartz 
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 4:27pmThe same way I would react if they announced that the main character was an 18 year old virgin and they were casting Elaine Stritch.
#5re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 4:58pmHow about a trifecta: Webber, Wildhorn, and Schwartz?
#6re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:02pm
^Only one of them actually writes lyrics, lol.
This is funny...'cause on another musical forum, I jokingly suggested that ALW get Sondheim to write lyrics for his new musical based on that Russian novel that was announced a few months ago. I looked the book up on Wikipedia but honestly didn't quite grasp the plot. We'll see...
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#7re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:06pmI'd be thrilled! I think some creative ingenious powers would ensue!
#8re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:11pmI'm with you Rathnait, I think Sondheim's medical team would need to be put on red alert! :)
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#9re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:16pm
If Webber and Sondheim ever teamed up, every no talent soprano and every twink musical theatre chorus boy would have one of two reaction.. probably they would slpit into two equal groups.... some furn for the hills to save themselves... others would run for the casting couch to boost their 'careers'.
I would be on my way to the hills, thank you.
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#10re: How would you react if...
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:18pmI'm with All_For_Laura on this one...I would love to see a show with music by ALW and lyrics by Sondheim. It would be seen by many as a step down for Sondheim, but ALW is more brilliant musically than he is given credit for and his unforgettable tunes combined with Sondheim's unrivaled lyrics would make on helluva musical. I don't know, maybe I'm just frustrated that Webber always seems to settle for mediocre lyricists when some of his own music is already classic in its own right. Bottom line, I suppose, is that it would never happen anyway.
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