After the show, you have lunch, more wine and then, thank God, a nap. Dinner is a lavish, sit-down affair. That night's entertainment: the five women who competed on a British television reality show (Andrew was a judge) to play Nancy in an upcoming revival of "Oliver."
The winner, who was selected by viewers, is on the heavy side, prompting one wag to comment that "As Long as He Needs Me" will have to be changed to "As Long as He Feeds Me."
That was really unnecessarily cruel. She's actually quite stunning and incredibly talented. She was my pick to win the competition from the very first episodes of auditions. I'm hoping to make a special trip to London to see her in the show.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
"And PHANTOM, which really is just a bunch of hokum, except it all works..." -Andrew Lloyd Webber on CHARLIE ROSE, 2000
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Weez, SADM2, Wicked: count me in for the opening night heckling.
I met one of the Gallery First Nighters on several occasions and he was always very good company. We were at Sondheim shows though so he always behaved himself.
just sing the same tune 14 times and hope no one notices it's the same song from his other shows.
And that automaton idea is just wacky. I wonder is she's like a robot, or a Christine blow-up doll. Imagine the marketing possibilities. They cold sell them in the gift shop!
Maybe the auctions are how he squandered his fortune!
I mean, the character was basically the equivalent of today's stage door johnny (he got really excited that he got to see an understudy perform, right?), so maybe he obsessed over getting posters, trinkets and such from every opera production that came along.
The phantom running around and haunting Coney Island sounds like a bad episode of Scooby Doo. I wonder if Shaggy and Velma will show up midway through act two with the assistance of Phyllis Diller and the Harlem Globetrotters.
My guess is that the only way ALW can get this thing going is to back-up a Brinks truck to Michael Crawford's house. Since POTO 2 is set 20 years later, it is in the realm of possibility the Crawford could be tapped. Michael, please don't answer the door!