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Pudding 02:15 am UTC 10/17/07 |
| In reply to: | re: It's a bit of a conundrum for me - rockfenris2005 01:24 am UTC 10/17/07 |
| > 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.) He had (pre-Cats) a Top #10 hits with Marti Webb - Take That Look Off Your Face(Song & Dance) David Essex - Oh What A Circus (Evita) Julie Covington - Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Evita) which you rightfully pointed out was #1. I don't have time at the moment to check Top #40 hits, but I think he has a few of them pre-Cats. Argentine Melody for the 1978 World Cup got to #14 > That too. What about "Tell Me On A Sunday"? That was a Top 10 hit aswell > 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. Starlight Express worked because it came out at a time Rollerskating was hitting it big and it's just an allround feelgood show because he wrote it for kids. I've never seen it, but hopefully I will one day with my kids, as they're into trains...LOL > 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. The idea of Jeeves as a musical would work, but Ayckbourn was the wrong person for the job. Alan Ayckbourn and Jeeves reminds me of Ray Errol Fox and The Confidence Man, in theory it should work, in practice it misses the mark. | |
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