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...Sound of Music; in 1961, Camelot. Even in 1964, the year the Beatles cued kids to buy their pop in long form as well as in singles, Hello, Dolly! was the No. 3 seller. Hair topped all 1969 LPs; the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar (technically not an original cast album, since the piece was recorded before it was staged) was No. 1 in 1971. And that was it. No show, including the later Lloyd Webber perennials, has since come near the top of the U.S. pops...
...other industry observers argued that the high-profile TripleCast, despite its poor showing, could actually speed the public's acceptance of pay- per-view. "NBC and Cablevision have used the Olympics to promote the viability of pay-per-view," says Christopher Dixon, a media analyst for Paine Webber. "In so doing, they've educated and helped build an audience for the ) future." Barry Gould, publisher of Pay-Per-View Update, predicts that the next Olympics will have a far more sophisticated array of viewing options. "I think the technology will be in place to offer the programming on a timed...
...golden opportunity for presenting the city as a shiny new capital of a postnational world. It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future. Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas of names -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Placido Domingo was followed by a sea of "living sculptures" designed by a man from the West Indies. And some of the grandest cheers of all came as the unfamiliar Lithuanian flag hung over costumes fashioned by Issey Miyake...
Andrew Durnford and Brian Webber, the runners-up in the election, replaced Gunty and Schorr as co-presidents. Durnford said that he and Webber were disappointed by what had happened in the elections, but hope that it will not mar the club's future...
...Webber and Rice's musical rendition of this biblical story is remarkable. From a French-sounding "Those Canaan days, we used to know, where have ze gone, where did ze go." to the rhythmic calypso of "Oh no, not he, how you cahn acuze heem eez a meestarie, save him, take me, Benjaameen is straighter than the tall palm tree"--the music thrills. There are even flavors of Elvis and country music in some of these numbers...