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...though, Boston theatergoers will have to 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...
With this month's opening of Cate in New York, Webber now has three shows on Broadway (Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcont is the third). Each rolls onstage to packed houses, each rolls off leaving a wealthier producer. Perhaps the Harvard Corporation could convince Midas-touch Webber to compose a ditty of two for the University's fund-raising drive, though Derekim sounds too much like a banana to succeed anywhere outside Cambridge...
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber...
...Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, took Broadway's breath away last season with their monumental Nicholas Nickleby. And at age 34, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has achieved the unprecedented feat of having three musicals playing simultaneously in London (Evita, Cats and Song & Dance) and New York (Evita, Cats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
...Lloyd Webber's task was to find a musical vocabulary that parallels Eliot's individual profiles of the cats. Here, Lloyd Webber's bent for the derivative is something of a help. He moves easily from rock to swing to ballad to full-throated hymnal invocation. That he overpowers as much as he underscores may be due to the Winter Garden's rabid amplification...