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...London's commercial theater, it is only one of four musicals slated for the Great White Way. The others are Chess, a cynical and muddled narrative in which Sicilian openings and checkmates serve as metaphors for nuclear disaster; Phantom, a quasi- operatic retelling by Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats) of the much- filmed monster-meets-girl melodrama; and another revival from the heyday of the Broadway tunesmiths, Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, in a consistently lively rendition by the Royal Shakespeare Company that nonetheless will need star quality recasting to prosper on Broadway...
...Tories upstaged both Labor and the Alliance by having Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of Evita and Cats, write a campaign tune titled It's Great to Be Great. Party Chairman Tebbit proudly labeled the music "brand new, not second hand," like Brahms' Fourth Symphony, Labor's theme, or the Alliance's Trumpet Tune by 17th century Composer Henry Purcell. All in all, many Britons agreed with Independent Television News' Jon Snow, who declared, "The campaign has become Americanized." Labor put on a strong show by adopting staged events, photo opportunities and other techniques refined by Thatcher four years ago. Last...
...million spectacular opened in London's West End this month, the box office was virtually sold out until early 1987. Webber and Prince have daringly envisioned Phantom not as Grand Guignol but as an opportunity to turn the musical back toward what they term romance. Ironically, Lloyd Webber (Evita) and Prince (Sweeney Todd) have been leaders in the movement to push musicals beyond traditional boy-meets-girl accessibility. Yet their Phantom is unquestionably a love story, just as much for the heroine, a baffled girl from the chorus, as for the masked enigma who spirits her down to the labyrinthine...
...postwar exhaustion and a tradition of hard-line cultural formalism, young Europeans were a cinch to be enthralled by the out-front vitality of Elvis Presley and James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Mary Martin. "The musicals of the '40s and '50s," recalls Andrew Lloyd Webber, the British composer of Evita and Cats, "came out at a time when your national spirit was able to afford a great deal more than what we in Britain could. You had greater optimism." Fizzy pop culture, American style, seemed easygoing but a little wild too. Even these days, says Bonn's Christian Hoffmann...
Along with the takeover tussles come some new stock offerings. The most unusual is the creation of Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, 37, the author of hit musicals, including Cats and Evita. Last week it was announced that early next year investment bankers at Schroder Wagg will offer to the public shares in Lloyd Webber's company, called Really Useful. Last year the firm had pre-tax profits of $3.1 million, and it owns the rights to everything Lloyd Webber has written since 1978. Stockholders will get a share of royalties each time an elevator plays a Muzak-treated tune from...