Tim Rice to Re-Team with Lloyd Webber on OZ?

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:22am

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Tim_Rice_to_ReTeam_with_Lloyd_Webber_on_OZ_20100526

Was Glenn dropped from the project?

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 1:02pm

And he won't on LND?!?!?

[jpbran]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 1:42pm

"to re-tell the real story of Oz."

Bitchy little dig at Wicked's revisionism.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 1:57pm

If it's based on the film and not the book, then they aren't telling the real story of Oz.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 2:05pm

Shouldn't the BWW News Desk really be called the BWW Press Release Desk?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 2:27pm

So it's not an adaptation of HBO's OZ for the stage? I am bitterly disappointed.

[Adam Chris]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 2:34pm

I am more excited about this than Love Never Dies.
ALW's music has never been more on point than with Rice's lyrics.

I can see this show being a huge money maker and probably running longer than LND.

[Adam Chris]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 2:37pm

"to re-tell the real story of Oz."

Bitchy little dig at Wicked's revisionism. - jpbran

Yes, that was a nasty jab. HAHA.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 2:56pm

Also, BWW, when you spell favorite the British way, it kind of gives away the fact that your news desk items are just regurgitated press releases.

[slmlbl]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 3:06pm

Well this is promising.
Now if only rice would work on "retelling the story of 'Love Never Dies' "

[philly03]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 3:46pm

Makes me more interested in it, I suppose.

""retelling the story of 'Love Never Dies' ""
..Because Rice could ever get a successful story out of a Chess game....They need a true playwright to get the story right & interesting for LND.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 4:53pm

I'm still hoping that they'll come to their senses and drop the new songs during previews.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 7:05pm

Would I rather hear songs by Arlen and Harburg, or those by Lloyd Webber and Rice? Wait a minute, this is hard, let me see ...

JUST STOP THEM NOW.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 9:13pm

When a man's an empty kettle ...

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:16pm

I can't imagine Harold Arlen and Andrew Lloyd-Webber being in the same room, let alone the same show!

(That is, were Harold Arlen alive and not senile, as he would be over 100 years old.)

[Almira]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:58pm

I'm more concerned with Rice's lyrics... who can TOUCH, let alone match, Yip Harburg's whimsy, word-play and rainbow tinted language?