Whats your favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber musical???- Page 3

[joanlegorreta]

Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:27pm

Sunset Boulevard is my favorite musical!

Followed by Joseph, as u can see in my picture

[Tenorific2]

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.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:38pm

1. The Beautiful Game
2. JC Superstar
3. Joseph
4. Evita

[roquat]

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.

[AnotherDay46]

Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:47pm

I have to say Evita followed by The Phantom of the Opera. ^__^

[Jon]

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!

Posted: 9/5/05 at 11:45pm

I am particularly fond of Phantom. I think Evita comes in at a close second. :)

~Rosalynn

[KMEP05]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 12:47am

Sunset Blvd and Evita.

[xmykeyx]

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?

[Composer9]

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...

[Practically Perfect]

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

[Sant]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:26am

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
CATS
SUNSET BOULEVARD (the score & book, I never saw this on stage)

[Mamie]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:08am

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Hello Margo! I hope you're feeling better and are back in the theatres.

[melissa errico fan]

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.

[Eastwickian]

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....

[Phantomerik15]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 9:54am

Phantom of the Opera

[playbill_signer_05]

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.

[Mister Matt]

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.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 11:52am

Evita and Cats

[QueenAnne82]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 3:04pm

Phantom and Evita

[Gemzigem]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 3:13pm

The Woman in White and Phantom, i love them both, they're so dramatic!

[bially082]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 3:15pm

Sunset. Followed by phantom.

[bryceab]

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.

[jo]

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.

[MyNameInLights]

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!