Word: evita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Running on Empty finds home truths in the drama of a family of '60s radicals turned fugitives. -- Moon over Parador: Evita was funnier...
...advertising-and-word-of-mouth strategy worked for Evita (1979), which opened to unenthusiastic reviews yet ran for almost four years. But it is not infallible: an additional $1 million enabled the 1985 Singin' in the Rain to survive almost a year, yet apparently did not recoup the show's $5 million- plus investment. Still, says Carrie's composer Michael Gore, whose credits include the movie Fame, "you can't produce a Broadway show without a reserve fund. That is my major dissatisfaction with this show...
Some of the show's lures are known commodities: Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Director Harold Prince (Cabaret, Follies) have mounted some of the flashiest spectaculars of recent years, including their prior collaboration, Evita. Practically everyone, it seems, has seen a movie version of Phantom, although few have read Gaston Leroux's turgid 1910 thriller about the hideously misshapen genius who constitutes himself the shadow ruler of the Paris Opera House and, upon becoming infatuated with a chorine, maneuvers her career from afar. The beauty-and-the- beast theme and subterranean wonderland setting echo the myths...
...quickly sent to the bottom under their own weight. Many opera- house successes have come instead from composers outside the academic tradition. Sondheim's Pacific Overtures opened the season at the English National Opera last fall. Sweeney Todd has been performed by the New York City Opera. Last year Evita was produced at the Staats-operette in Dresden...
...British composer of Evita and Cats has his biggest hit yet in Phantom, which opens Jan. 26 after an all- time- record advance sale. With his shows playing from Budapest to Tokyo, Lloyd Webber, 39, presides over a musical empire that brings him more than $1 million a month (though not always critical acceptance) and is making him a superstar. See SHOW BUSINESS...