Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.

[muscle23ftl]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#1

Posted: 4/2/10 at 1:21pm

What a class act he is!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=116747

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

Updated On: 4/2/10 at 01:21 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#2

Posted: 4/2/10 at 1:29pm

If you had the chance to recommend someone to see one musical, which one would it have to be?

-West Side Story.

I agree!

*edited*

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

Updated On: 4/2/10 at 01:29 PM

[Biff AKA Levi]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#2

Posted: 4/2/10 at 1:41pm

He's never seen West Side Story?

I bet he only sees his own shows because he's so cheap he doesn't have to buy tickets.

"I want a lap dance from an octopus."

-JG2

[muscle23ftl]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#3

Posted: 4/2/10 at 1:47pm

Noooo, he is not cheap, he is known for being very generous to the people he employs and several charities. He says if he had to pick one show to recommend someone that has the chance to see ONLY 1 show, he would recommend WSS.

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[BroadwayBound115]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#4

Posted: 4/3/10 at 9:54am

I always thought he was a very nice man.

[ggersten]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#5

Posted: 4/3/10 at 10:07am

He says that in the last decade, other than Wicked, musicals have been about "fun" or fluff, and not the "music." I guess he hadn't heard of Light in the Piazza and Next to Normal.

[adamgreer]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#6

Posted: 4/3/10 at 10:09am

I don't get how he would classify Wicked as anything other than fun and fluff.

(and I like Wicked)

[tazber]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#7

Posted: 4/3/10 at 12:06pm

I was just thinking the same thing adam.

....but the world goes 'round

[romgitsean]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#8

Posted: 4/3/10 at 12:15pm

...and yet, he's producing the biggest mound of fluff ever created: The Wizard of Oz.

Not to say Wicked's not great, because it is, but he does make a point in that within the last ten years we haven't had a very good taste of original musicals on Broadway, but it is kind of hypocritical to imply lack of originality when on the West End most of his musicals have been revivals.

Granted, Webber did come out with Woman in White, which should've succeeded and was a really great original musical...but, these things happen unfortunately. Sometimes in a sea of revivals and just plain crap, it's hard to find which ones are really worth it and stand out...

Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:: Carrie, Merrily, Ionescopade
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM

[muscle23ftl]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#9

Posted: 4/3/10 at 1:24pm

I think most of the revivals he produced were his own musicals though(Evita, Joseph)

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[Mildred Plotka]

Webber Talks About LOVE NEVER DIES, WICKED, BOMBAY DREAMS, A.R. RAHMAN, OZ.#10

Posted: 4/3/10 at 2:25pm

Oh Sir Lady Lord Webber, you've become a parody of your former self.

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"