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...gimmick to sustain interest in current hits: hiring pop-identifiable personalities to take over major roles. To wit, Debbie Reynolds will replace Raquel Welch who replaced Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year. Teenswooner Andy Gibb is now headlining Broadway's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and yes, no less than Bert Convy, the chirpy host of TV's Tattletales, is replacing Raul Julia for two weeks in the musical Nine. Of all the recent replacements, however, the most interesting may be Morgan Fairchild, 32, who last week joined the cast of the off-Broadway comedy Geniuses...
...spoken dialogue, unless you count Pontius Pilate yelling. "Twenty-two! Twenty-three! Twenty-four!" while Roman guards put Jesus to the lash. The rest is music numbers of the sliding, dazzling quality that marks the composer's better-known Evita and the lately revived Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
...Broadway's breath away last season with their monumental Nicholas Nickleby. And at age 34, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has achieved the unprecedented feat of having three musicals playing simultaneously in London (Evita, Cats and Song & Dance) and New York (Evita, Cats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
...Practical Cats, a collection of witty verses the poet wrote in the 1930s for the amusement of the children of his relatives and friends; and music by Lloyd Webber, currently the most successful composer for Broadway and the West End (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). In London, Cats has been a sold-out smash since it opened in May 1981. But the New York version "will not be a clone of the other," says Producer Cameron Mackintosh. Four main characters have been cut and others merged. Four songs have undergone major rewrites. Other numbers have...
...fancies, has jumped on the trash bandwagon-at least in its musicals. Composers, librettists and directors ransack old Hollywood movies (42nd Street) and newer foreign films ("Nine"). They bow to rock 'n' roll for their subject matter (Dreamgirls) or their urgent tempo (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They find their heroines in comic strips (Annie) or in history that reads like cheap fiction (Evita). The message sounds clear as a cash-register bell: the way to make a hit is to recycle pulp into...