Word: webber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROBLEM with the Bible, according to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, is that it's too far removed from the twentieth century. So the musical-writing duo decided to update the story of the Gospels, and Jesus Christ Superstar was the result...
...offer in 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...
...previous record of $2.4 billion in 1984. Even TWA, a perennially struggling carrier now run by Corporate Raider Carl Icahn, is expected to enjoy a banner year. "The airlines are living in the best of all possible worlds," declares John Pincavage, who follows the industry for the Paine Webber Group investment firm...
...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...
When the season and her senior year end, McBride will begin work at Paine-Webber in New York...