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rockfenris2005 01:24 am UTC 10/17/07 |
| In reply to: | re: It's a bit of a conundrum for me - Pudding 09:49 pm UTC 10/16/07 |
> I think it's great that it beat all the odds, it was an > extremly brave move and something that I doubt would be > repeated in a hurry. I don't think it could be repeated again. At least the risk would be a hundred times higher > > Prior to Cats, ALW was very successful, Joseph was > becoming very popular, JCS speaks for itself and Evita was > going extremely well. In fact Evita was more successful > than JCS at that time, it won more awards and had more hit > songs from it. Really? I always thought it was the other way round, although if you look at it carefully you're right. Plus "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" was his first No. 1. "Any Dream Will Do" and "No Matter What" were his only other songs to hold that distinction (jee, all you cynics, "Whistle" was such a flop after-all....*eye-roll* Actually "No Matter What" is the greatest selling single from a musical SO FAR.) And don't forget the album Variations was a > massive hit in the UK. That too. What about "Tell Me On A Sunday"? So Cats was released on the back of > a string of successes. Sorta. All those other successes started out as albums, except "Jeeves", but. (getting to that in a sec.) I'm not surprised Cats was a > success, ALW could do no wrong at the time, I am surprised > it's a continuing success, that kinda beggars belief. What really beggars belief is how "Starlight Express" got away with it. To me, that really feels like another "Cats" but without the brilliant T.S. Eliot poetry. I will say that I'm happy it's running forever in Bochum or wherever. What other show can say that it's running forever? > > Jeeves was a mistake because they tried to encompass > typical Ayckbourn tomfoolery into the songs, which didn't > work. Instead of it being an outright musical, it was a > musical/play which to me didn't work. I'm not surprised it > tanked. Yeah, you're right about that. Also, Ayckbourn had never written a musical. He essentially wrote a play that would "stand on its own" if the music didn't arrive in time. That's not the way you're supposed to write a musical. It's supposed to be a true integration of music, book and lyrics. I'd have liked to have seen "By Jeeves" on stage. > > The big question is, would Phantom have been the success > it is today had Jim written the lyrics? Whistle was the > right project at the right time for Jim. It is a brilliant story, probably more appealing than "Phantom". I don't think "Phantom" would be the big romantic show that it is now...I think it would be a lot like that video with Steve Harley and Sarah Brightman, not to mention all the references to "turn around, bright eyes" or anything else LOL "The siren is screaming and the fires are howling." Hey, that's Carlotta! | |
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