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SEEKING DIVORCE. Andrew Lloyd Webber, 35, pop composer who currently has three hit musicals running in New York City (Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats); and Sarah Jane Tudor, 34, his wife of twelve years and mother of his two children; in London...
...actress from a collage of 27 numbers that set the producers back some $1.5 million, the most ever spent on a London musical. Entrusted with holding the whole thing together, and with conveying M.M.'s breathy voluptuousness, is Stephanie Lawrence, 28, who headlined the London production of 'Evita by night and rehearsed her Marilyn! lines during the day. In between, the British actress frantically gobbled French fries to put on 14 Ibs. and give her 110-lb. frame a little Monroevian oomph. The result: the critics loved her, though they could not swallow the play. Said...
...product of Remember Marilyn Year is a musical, Marilyn!, which is already in rehearsal for a March opening in London's West End. "There was something about her I was in love with," admits the show's director-choreographer Larry Fuller, 44, who made the dances for Evita and Sweeney Todd. Marilyn will be played by Stephanie Lawrence, who portrayed Monroe last fall on a BBC show and who will quit the title role of Evita for the new part...
...background. The script contains not a single line of 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...
...resign themselves to a somewhat imperfect theatrical experience, a small price to play for seeing the show here at all. Several minor performances, especially Jill Geddes' as Peron's former mistress, rival those of the leads. Above all else, Webber's consistently haunting and melodic score makes an Evita ticket a worthy investment...