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re: DOTV Broadway Actually Had A Lot Going For It

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steven_stuart 06:49 pm UTC 04/23/13
In reply to: re: DOTV Broadway Actually Had A Lot Going For It - rockfenris2005 01:58 pm UTC 04/23/13

You are probably right about why Don Black was brought in to write new material for Whistle. I wonder if they asked Jim and he refused. The Tribe sounds like something Jim might write.

> > > The only people whose names were on both productions, if I
> > > remember correctly, were Andrew, Jim and the book writer
> > > Patricia Knop. They more or less started again design wise
> > > and in terms of the cast.
> >
> > I wonder why Bill Kenwright later asked Don Black to write
> > some extra lyrics. Surely he should have asked Jim.
> >
> > Did you know that Gale Edwards worked on a version of JCS
> > with ALW before she directed Whistle?
>
> I think Andrew wanted to turn it into a more family
> oriented piece for the tour, which meant cutting bits like
> the songs "Annie Christmas" and "Charlie Christmas" which
> I love, and Jim disagreed with that? So Don wrote the
> lyric for the new song that was introduced to cover that
> section, which was a song called "The tribe".
>


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