Love Likley to Die... — Page 2

Exactly! Bombay Bombed!

Another mess up of Webber not knowing what to do with the show properly and wanting to try everything with some of the marketing artwork looking like it was a Indian Gay War musical... dreadful!!

And because it did so awfully in London, what did Webber do? Some 8 million taking it to Broadway where it lasted about 8 weeks... What a fab producer. I bet that cost him a painting or two...

Small correction - Bombay Dreams recouped its entire investment within a year of opening in London and ran for around two years in total. The Broadway production, on the other hand, lost pretty much everything....

Updated On: 7/9/10 at 11:44 AM

Didn't Chess do something similar and it ended up tits up? I understand heavy changes took place, in order to add dialogue, it ended up only running for 68 shows at The Imperial, where another British show is doing alright. Albeit ALW did not produce this, if he did it would of lasted 34 performances.

Updated On: 7/9/10 at 07:35 PM

The MOS promo smacks of utter desperation. Certainly conjours up a stark image of ALW flogging a dead horse.

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Updated On: 7/10/10 at 09:05 PM

keithp - obviously, as with everything in life, there will be people who have different opinions about the merits of scores etc and I appreciate that. But to me the score was the worst thing about the show (the book was awful, the score was worse). Nevertheless I'll admit I was a bit harsh saying it's the worst score to ever grace a West End stage - it's just the worst score I've ever heard and I've only been going to the theatre since 1965.lol (One very good song - which is then repeated ad infinitum until I was utterly sick of it - plus lots of music copied from his previous scores plus lots of incredibly boring, sickly OTT schlock. Though, I will also be honest and say that's what I think about Phantom of the Opera and many of his other shows too!)

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Updated On: 7/11/10 at 04:56 AM

I love the score of Bombay Dreams - it's better than any ALW score I've heard!

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While A.R. Rahman's music for BD is superior to ALW's scores IMO (though I did not much care for Rahman's music in Lord of The Rings), I don't think one should even mention ALW or Rahman in the same breath as the all-time-great Richard Rodgers.

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Updated On: 7/12/10 at 11:06 AM

They haven't sprung they jumped.... and good for them, 'Catch Me If You Can' is wonderful.

Catch Me was pretty solid it just had a few book issues which im glad they are sorting. They must keep on Aaron Tivett in the lead as he was fantastic, as was Norbet

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Catch Me If You Can have some pretty gd songs! and the cast is pretty fantastic as well! I hope it comes to London!

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'Catch Me If You Can' had a great number of rewrites, redesigns- the lot, during its short, but successful, Seattle run. It has been constantly rewritten since it closed in preparation for its Broadway bow.
There were two full recordings made of the show, one at its very beginning and one right at the end of its run. The two are very different and I think the latter is very strong.
Maybe it should get its premiere at the Adelphi and let the dying monster that wont die, die! lol

Its getting seriously close to the show taking the Neil simon, the owners are getting rapidly fed up with the waiting/conformation game with 'Love Never Dies' and Mr Lloyd Webber.
Its not the only show that wants the Neil Simon.