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rockfenris2005 06:21 am UTC 10/26/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Hal Prince on WDTW - steven_stuart 01:08 am UTC 10/26/10 |
> > Obviously ALW ultimately decided the 'element in the > > collaboration' was not Jim, hence new director for > London. > > Yes. Although ALW fired Jim but Jim didn't know it because > he went for a journey to Europe and didn't tell anyone > where he was going. By the time he got back, ALW had > changed his mind and Jim only found out much later. Its a > good job for Andrew that he changed his mind because Jim > gave him his most successful single in the British charts > ever. Not only did Jim write the lyrics for "No Matter > What" but he changed the music around (with ALW's > permission) so that it suited Boyzone. I hope that Jim > writes a book because that episode is just one of many > interesting tales. He kept a very expensive suite at The > Dorchester which came out of his pay and he ordered room > service to bring everything on the menu to his suite every > night. He would go out for dinner and forget to cancel it. > ALW famously said that Jim Steinman doesn't have an eating > disorder, he has an ordering disorder (posted somewhere on > this website). Perhaps posters could post their favourite > Jim histroy stories. That might make quite a good thread. When was Jim fired? Was that after the Washington D.C. production when it didn't move on to Broadway? Or was it after the West End production when Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted to make it more family-oriented for the UK tour? Because I know when Bill did the UK tour, he removed possibly the finest lyric from the entire show, "Annie/Charlie Christmas" which is the reason why I will never see that version no matter where it travels, no matter what anybody says. I can see why Jim would have been fired at that point because he wouldn't have gone along with those silly changes. Poor Jim, because that's the only version of "Whistle" you will ever see nowadays. And it still hasn't been released to amateur/stock groups who might have been able to remove some of those awful changes. It's a shame that they only wrote the one musical together (Andrew wrote two musicals with Ben Elton who is nowhere near as good as Jim, in fact "We will rock you" must be one of the worst musicals of all time to have ever succeeded, IMHO), but they did try to develop an interesting project called "Metal Philharmonic", though I have never been able to find much information on this. Others would know more about it, I'm sure. | |
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