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rockfenris2005 09:47 am UTC 04/29/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Andrew Lloyd Moneybags - Pudding 09:20 am UTC 04/29/07 |
> Cats was probably his riskiest venture yet, and it paid > off big time, and YES it is the point. Where you get 200 > investors from? sounds like utter bullshit to me as > Cameron Mackintosh and RUG produced the show. I read it in ALW bio ("Cats On The Chandelier" I think, check it out). Cam Mac was still a semi/unknown producer at that point. His biggest shows to date were "Side By Side By Sondheim" (his first hit), revivals of "Oliver!", "My Fair Lady" and "Oklahoma!" and, maybe, "Tomfoolery". It was "Cats" that made him a celebrity. Really Useful Group hadn't produced a stage-work prior to "Cats". Robert Stigwood and David Land produced "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Jeeves" and "Evita". Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" also had 200 investors but that ran only a year (still, it's one of the greatest musicals EVER written.) > I think what ALW has achieved is more than enough success > for anyone. If people are going to constantly gauge what > he's done since Phantom then yeah, his resume is gonna > look pretty shit on statistics alone. He may be the most successful stage-composer of all time. At least financially anyway. But (pretty much) all of his shows post "Phantom" weren't successes. "Aspects Of Love" only lasted a few years in London, tanked on Broadway, followed up by "Sunset Boulevard" which was plagued with problems. "By Jeeves" is probably the first time a flop has been successfully rewritten, but it was no giant. "Whistle Down The Wind" tanked in Washington, never made it to Broadway, although Andrew *did* score his biggest chart success with "No Matter What" (being the greatest selling single from a musical in history.) "Whistle" probably had the most decent run out of all of them (excluding "Joseph" which was really a revival) whereas "The Beautiful Game" only lasted a year and "The Woman In White" lasted a month on Broadway. It folded soon afterward in the West End. He hasn't had a good track-record lately. The difference is, if "Phantom 2" fails, everyone's going to know about it. The only major show out of his post-"Phantom" work is, probably, "Sunset Boulevard". From my view anyway. > POTO2 win or lose ALW is still a very very rich man. > > Pud He'll be fine. It won't be like Steinman and "Dance Of The Vampires" or the authors of "Carrie". But it will knock the sails out of him that's for sure | |
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