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...band's controversial new album, Antichrist Superstar, a takeoff on Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1971 stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar, is a scathing social critique dressed up as a morbid rock opera. It portrays the rise of a supernatural demagogue who seizes power and leads the world to destruction. The album's 16 songs, including Tourniquet (which is getting steady play on MTV), wallow in nightmarish, frequently X-rated scenarios of occultism, suicide, torture, greed and mindless celebrity worship. "I'm so all-American I'd sell you suicide," Manson snarls over the sound of jackhammering drums and the buzz...
...weaves without knowing the overall pattern." Martinez realizes that the work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification he wishes to avoid: "a sing-along article out of selections from the Reader's Digest...
...side of the Atlantic still lament that Broadway is overdependent on British imports, London seems to be infatuated with Americans. Transplants from Broadway like Grease, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor are side by side on the West End with Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganzas. The Royal National Theatre has just revived Richard Eyre's landmark 1982 production of Guys and Dolls, whose success inspired a string of British revivals of classic American musicals. Even so unfashionable, and quintessentially American, a pop figure as Al Jolson has gained new life on the West...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER His musical based on the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind is postponed. Needs retuning...
...maintained his confidence even after a disastrous initial recording session, when Madonna was forced to launch into the show's biggest number, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, backed by an oversize, 84-piece orchestra whose members had never before played together. Lloyd Webber was upset with the musicians, Parker had first-day jitters and Madonna went home in tears. "I was so nervous," she says, "because I knew that Andrew had had reservations about me, and here I'm singing the hardest song in the piece. And all of a sudden there with everybody for the first time...