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AUTHORS: MUSIC BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER; BOOK AND LYRICS BY DON BLACK AND CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON...
...ornate staircase of her pseudo palazzo in murderous rage. The juxtaposition is a miracle of stagecraft -- the weighty rococo mansion thrusts up and over the partygoers with noiseless ease -- and is also the signature moment of London's most anticipated theatrical event this year. In Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation, the movie classic Sunset Boulevard has much the same theme as his greatest hit, The Phantom of the Opera. Normal life is lived in company, the two shows say, but great passion demands an almost secluded privacy. If leaving reality for fantasy is demented, it is a noble...
...question above is from a Mensa test, but SAT scores or any standard I.Q. test score will do. Mensa says it provides a "stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members." In fact there are dozens of special-interest groups, on everything from personal investing to Andrew Lloyd Webber. The original mission of Mensa, which was formed at Oxford University in 1946, was to "bring highly intelligent people together to help solve the world's problems." If this year's gathering is any indication, however, that purpose has evolved into something quite different: to bring highly intelligent people together...
...attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Walsh was classical-music critic for the San Francisco Examiner before joining TIME in 1981. His passionate, sharply reasoned reviews have been informed by his eclectic musical tastes, which range from '60s rock to Broadway melodist Andrew Lloyd Webber, about whom he wrote a 1988 TIME cover story as well as a book, Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life & Works (Abrams). "Classical music suffers from an image of snobbism," says Walsh. "I've always tried to make it approachable -- to present it to the reader, not as a rarefied art form...
...show on her first Broadway album. She closes with a tune from Sunday in the Park with George despite the fact that her first album started off with a song from that show. Back to Broadway's idea of adventure seems to be the inclusion of two Andrew Lloyd Webber songs from his yet-to-open musical adaptation of the film Sunset Boulevard. There's also a version of Webber's song The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera, $ recast as a duet between Streisand and Michael Crawford. Three Webber songs is four too many...