aspects of love question

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:37pm

does a man or woman sing love changes everything?

[pab]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:40pm

Man

Aspects of Love

Updated On: 10/24/05 at 04:40 PM

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:44pm

thanks so much, pab. I'm so lazy, thank you for including the amazon site for me.

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:45pm

do you like the show, pab?
or anyone else with an opinion.

[jo]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 7:13pm

Michael Ball ( as Alex) opens the show with the song ( if you had been only a little late into the theater, you would have missed the song). It's partly sung with only a piano accompaniment before the orchestra blends in.

Love Changes Everything has become his signature song in his concerts.

I saw the show at the West End and on Broadway and still ranks as my favourite Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and musical score.

[jo]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 7:17pm

Sarah Brightman is coming out with a new album of ALWebber songs and it is entitled LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING. She sings the song as well as SEEING IS BELIEVING from the show( a duet with Michael Ball).

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 11:56pm

When Aspects of Love came to Broadway, after the critics skewered it pretty badly, Forbidden Broadway skewered it to hilarious results. I had to use the cocktail napkins of everyone in my party to wipe away my hysterical tears of laughter. Jason Graae was Michael Ball and he came out in a bathrobe singing (to the tune of "Love Changes Everything) "I, I sleep with everyone...." Then everyone joined him behind a big sheet and everyone dropped their bathrobes as the singing continued.

After all of the people and the under-the-sheets machinations, the last line was some thing like "Come and see our show and then you'll sleep, too!"

I remember it was particularly funny because I had seen it in London and loved it. Then I took another couple in New York when Aspects transferred across the pond. They HATED it! (I didn't it like the Broadway production much either).

Since they were with us at this staging of Forbidden Broadway as well, the level of hilarity was particularly high. During intermission, an elderly gentlemen tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'We're having more fun watching you two girls enjoying this show than the show itself!"

So now I can't think of Aspects in Love without thinking of that parody.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 1:21am

LOL, great post.

What changed between London and B'way that made you not like it as much?

[Addison]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 2:21am

It was one of those lost in the translation things. Updated On: 10/25/05 at 02:21 AM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 2:28am

LizzieCurry,

It was a long time ago, so my memory is hazy. In London, it seemed like such a "small" show, very intimate and underplayed. Some of the melodies from it are really lovely. I know Aspects is someone on this board's favorite ALW musical, and I can understand why.

I also feel that productions in London take more chances and assume the theater-going audience is intelligent and sophisticated. Therefore, when they send something here, they feel the need to "dumb it down" for us hayseeds

Take a recent example: Bombay Dreams. My friend saw it in London and loved it so much, she made me buy her a ticket while she was in Australia so she would have incentive to come back. (And she generally HATES musicals!) She was so stunned at how much they had changed it and really weakened it.

I've seen it done several times before and it has never been successful. Since Aspects is a show about sex and forbidden love, it ain't gonna go over too well in a place with LOTS of "red states," ya know?

It's based on a British novella by one of the peripheral members of Virginia Woolf's gang. It's a slight story that essentially advocates free love and alternate lifestyles. That's still hard for America to accept. It's okay if "those people" are in a sitcom and middle America is laughing at their inane exploits, but don't get too serious or (god forbid) romantic.

Anyway, I enjoyed it much more in London...although the Forbidden Broadway parody ran a very close second.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 2:28am

I've never really liked this show (or Starlight Express).

I went out and got the double CD and I still haven't gotten past Everybody Loves a Hero. I just found it to be the most boring thing I had ever heard. It was trying to be this Sondheim-like show, ad while I'm not dissing it as the crappiest show ever written (there's a lot worse), it never did anything for me: and I'm a devout Lloyd Webber fan

I think, from what I'm aware, there was a bit of tweaking in Broadway: and the addition of a new song for Giuletta (sic?) called TELL HER NOW. It had something to dowith the sound design as well, which was apparently very deafening an dloud, and the sets and production values were really made sickening (like being on a rocking boat). That's what I've heard, but I've never seen it: so I guess I'm not the one to be talking to about it...

Both shows, however, only ran for (like) a year in London: then a year on Broadway. And yet people are content to say that Whistle Down the Wind is oneof Lloyd Webber's biggest flops when a) Aspects, probably his masterpiece (and one I don't care for) did worse by "three years" and b) Starlight Express ran for two years on Broadway as a big disaster and c) By Jeeves was a flop on Broadway and d) the original Jeeves ran for a matter of months in London and e) Beautiful Game ran the same amount of time as Aspects: and, "f"inally: Woman in White is rumoured to be closing in London due to a stoop in the box office

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 3:19am

Same thing with Aspects , in Australia if you saw the show in Sydney it just did not work, but once it moved to the "Comedy" theatre in Melbourne, smaller theatre it worked a treat.

Have seen it done with just the 5 leads and that worked as well.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 6:20am

Aspects of Love ran for 3 years 2 months in London (1325 perfs) and had a successful (though badly scaled-down) tour. Jeeves and The Beautiful Game both flopped financially (though the latter was a huge critical success), but I had heard that Whistle down the Wind recouped towards the end of it's two and a half year run.

The problem is that producers in London don't release box office figures, so it's very difficult to assess how a production is doing...

Updated On: 10/25/05 at 06:20 AM

[chess12]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 11:45am

Miss Pennywise,
Your experience at Forbidden Broadway sounds EXACTLY LIKE my own experience at Forbidden Broadway, but it was the GRAND HOTEL spoof GRIM HOTEL that had me screaming so loud and crying with laughter. Our tablemates told me they were enjoying my reactions as much as the show.

And ASPECTS OF LOVE is my favorite ALW show. Saw the Broadway production. It was beautifully done. But it's interesting to hear comments about the difference between the West End and Broadway productions. After seeing an off-off-Broadway CHESS that starred Kathleen Rowe McAllen (Guilietta in ASPECTS) as Florence, I mentioned to her that I had seen her performance in ASPECTS. She brightened up and said "In London?" And I said, no, in New York. And she deflated just a little bit. I've always wondered why. Apparently, the show was a better experience for the actors as well as the audience in London.

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 12:37pm

what great input from you all. I need to go listen to this or purchase it, whichever comes first. even though, it is ALW, if the music is good, I will eat it up.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 1:08pm

I enjoyed the music of Aspects of Love. I really like "A Memory of A Happy Moment" "Mermaid Song" "The First Man You Remember" and "Anything But Lonely".

I remember hearing many people complain about it, but when I went to see it on Broadway I thought it wasn't as bad as people had said.

Putting it in perspective, it came to Broadway two years after Phantom opened and I think audiences were dying for another visual/aural thrill like they got in Phantom. Aspects is a quieter musical and I think people were disappointed.

The complaint I heard the most was that people were mad because of the repetitive musical theme that goes "Love, love changes everything." I heard people refer to it as the 7 note musical.