#51
Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:27pm
Sunset Boulevard is my favorite musical!
Followed by Joseph, as u can see in my picture
Followed by Joseph, as u can see in my picture
Whats your favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber musical??? — Page 3
#52
Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:27pm
"Sunset" with Betty Buckley because it was the first West End show I saw.
The touring co. of "JCS" with Eric Kunze is second.
The touring co. of "JCS" with Eric Kunze is second.
#53
Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:38pm
1. The Beautiful Game
2. JC Superstar
3. Joseph
4. Evita
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#54
Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:44pm
The only Webber worth anything is "Evita", which tackled a fascinating subject (not always well, but interestingly). It's also the only one with a passable film version. "Joseph" and "JCS" can be enjoyably trashy. "Cats" is like a bad Oscar night going on forever.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#55
Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:47pm
I have to say Evita followed by The Phantom of the Opera. ^__^
#56
Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:47pm
As someone who does NOT like Lloyd Webber's music, I'm picking BY JEEVES, because it has the LEAST amount of music in it! There are just ten rather short songs - none of which really advance the plot. You could completley cut out Lloyd Webber's score and you'd still have a good full-length comedy by Alan Ayckbourn!
#57
Posted: 9/5/05 at 11:45pm
I am particularly fond of Phantom. I think Evita comes in at a close second. :)
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#58
Posted: 9/6/05 at 12:47am
Sunset Blvd and Evita.
#59
Posted: 9/6/05 at 12:50am
phantom and jesus and joseph... followed distantly by evita...
Perhaps Woman in White will become my new favorite?
Perhaps Woman in White will become my new favorite?
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#60
Posted: 9/6/05 at 12:55am
I do not care for ALW...but if I had to choose I would say Sunset Blvd. or Evita...
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~Leonard Bernstein~
#61
Posted: 9/6/05 at 3:50am
Sunset Blvd, Phantom and Woman In White.
The Beautiful Game, and Whistle Down The Wind were both painful, and I'm not a fan of Aspects of Love. Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar were good for the time they were written, but somehow don't work for me in the 21st Century...
Mary P x
The Beautiful Game, and Whistle Down The Wind were both painful, and I'm not a fan of Aspects of Love. Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar were good for the time they were written, but somehow don't work for me in the 21st Century...
Mary P x
#62
Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:26am
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
CATS
SUNSET BOULEVARD (the score & book, I never saw this on stage)
CATS
SUNSET BOULEVARD (the score & book, I never saw this on stage)
#63
Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:08am
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#64
Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:18am
1. Evita
2. The Woman in White
3. Sunset Boulevard
I hate everything else, with the exception of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, which I only mildly dislike.
2. The Woman in White
3. Sunset Boulevard
I hate everything else, with the exception of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, which I only mildly dislike.
#65
Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:42am
Even the staunchest Lloyd-Webber-hater would have to admit that there's a huge range of different answers here, and that the man is really quite versatile. Obviously, he can't please everyone - if you don't like Wodehouse, you won't like By Jeeves; if you don't like cheesy '80's pop you won't like Starlight Express; if you don't like melodrama, you won't like The Woman in White etc etc - but most might admit to finding one or two of his shows interesting....
#66
Posted: 9/6/05 at 9:54am
Phantom of the Opera
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
#67
Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:10am
I like both Cats and The Phantom of the Opera... unfortunately I can't say I know all the music to his other shows.
#68
Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:20am
Aspects of Love is my personal favorite. The US tour based on the Toronto production was beautiful.
Elphaba - I attended the final performance of Beautiful Game in London. Probably his most underrated show (along with Aspects). It was quite good and brilliantly staged. I think people were disappointed it wasn't one of his sung-through mega-musicals with enormous sets and state-of-the-art special effects. Lloyd Webber was sitting a few rows behind me. Our Kind of Love literally stopped the show. The ovation went on and on and on.
Elphaba - I attended the final performance of Beautiful Game in London. Probably his most underrated show (along with Aspects). It was quite good and brilliantly staged. I think people were disappointed it wasn't one of his sung-through mega-musicals with enormous sets and state-of-the-art special effects. Lloyd Webber was sitting a few rows behind me. Our Kind of Love literally stopped the show. The ovation went on and on and on.
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#69
Posted: 9/6/05 at 11:52am
Evita and Cats
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#70
Posted: 9/6/05 at 3:04pm
Phantom and Evita
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#71
Posted: 9/6/05 at 3:13pm
The Woman in White and Phantom, i love them both, they're so dramatic!
#72
Posted: 9/6/05 at 3:15pm
Sunset. Followed by phantom.
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#73
Posted: 9/7/05 at 1:37am
Aspects of Love is my favorite, the US tour directed by Robin Phillips was beautiful. Evita is the tightest, ALW needs a strong lyricist to keep him from getting carried away. Starlight Express(the first show I saw in NYC and London) is my guilty pleasure.
#74
Posted: 9/7/05 at 2:34am
To me, The Beautiful Game is the most poignant of his musicals. It is very sad because because of its contemporary theme of sectarian violence ( against the backdrop of "the beautiful game of soccer"). My favourite song is God's Own Country, one that tells of the plight of immigrants, another current social theme.
I was lucky to see ASPECTS OF LOVE when it played on Broadway with Michael Ball. Fifteen years later, Michael will be back on Broadway in another ALW musical THE WOMAN IN WHITE. The latter show reminds one of Aspects because of the romantic and lush musical score and the sung-through format. I like how recitatives are used to move the story along.
Unfortunately, songs from The Beautiful Game were not yet composed when The ALW 50th Birthday Celebration show was put on DVD/video. This must be the best collection of ALW songs from all his musicals that have been released in one DVD.
I was lucky to see ASPECTS OF LOVE when it played on Broadway with Michael Ball. Fifteen years later, Michael will be back on Broadway in another ALW musical THE WOMAN IN WHITE. The latter show reminds one of Aspects because of the romantic and lush musical score and the sung-through format. I like how recitatives are used to move the story along.
Unfortunately, songs from The Beautiful Game were not yet composed when The ALW 50th Birthday Celebration show was put on DVD/video. This must be the best collection of ALW songs from all his musicals that have been released in one DVD.
#75
Posted: 9/7/05 at 2:44am
Evita and Starlight Express. I GREW UP on Starlight Express. I don't care if no one else in the free world loves it!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
