Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winners of the race to stage a Phantom in a major commercial setting, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Director Harold Prince, have proved the shrewdness of their unlikely impulse. Within two days after the $3 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...
...often said of Lloyd Webber's musicals that the show is the star, and of Prince's stagings that the director is the star. Both dicta might apply to Phantom, which is opulently costumed, lushly scored, full of spectacular stage pictures and chockablock with pastiches of 19th century warhorse opera. But in the midst of all the mechanics there are 2 1/2 performances that achieve some emotional depth. Michael Crawford commands the stage as the Phantom, bringing complete conviction to such fantasies as a midair descent on a chariot of gilded cherubs and a boating trip on a subterranean lake...
Boyd (now 16-10) gave up two runs in the fourthon a Lloyd Moseby home run and another in thefifth on a Moseby single, but then settled down topitch an effective game. The Red Sox pitcher, whostruck out nine in the game, retired the final 11Blue Jays that faced...
STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Pico Iyer, Stephen Koepp, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz, Richard Zoglin...
...Sirri terminal returned to partial operation a day later, the strike stirred fears that Iran's 1.6 million-bbl.-a-day oil production, most of which passes through the facility, might be in jeopardy. In New York City some oil prices jumped by 6.67%. In London, insurers at Lloyd's, through which many tankers have coverage, doubled rates for ships traveling to the island...