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Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • Columns

    May 9, 2012

    Broadway Gossip About Ricky Martin, Newsies, and Jekyll & Hyde!

    Once again, feel-good battles artsinessfor the Antoinettes

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Top 10 Eurovision Song Contest Winners* of All Time

    In a couple of weeks, the biggest, gaudiest, gayest and easily the most-watched televised music event in the world will unfold, this year from Baku, Azerbaijan, and once again Americans will be almost completely oblivious to it. We're talking, of course, about the Eurovision Song Contest, which sta ... More >>

  • Theater

    April 11, 2012

    Evita: Sigh for Them, Argentina

    Michael Grandage helms the latest Rice-Webber Broadway revival

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Evita Returns: My Review

    Disclosure: I busted my ass to get from a TV appearance to Evita but got there moments late. I had to watch the first 15 minutes on a monitor in the lobby, then was allowed in to my seat. And it was worth the ass-busting. I always thought the highly conceptualized 1979 Harold Prince-directed prod ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 28, 2012

    Jesus Christ Superstar: What's the Buzz?

    A classic rock musical gives Broadway another try

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Jesus Christ Superstar Resurrected: My Review

    He's back! And looking good! Jesus Christ Superstar--the 1971 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical based on the 1970 album--has returned, in sharp contrast to Godspell, the Stephen Schwartz hippie tuner that also debuted in 1971 and has magically come back this year as well.

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    How's This For A Happy Face?

    Whenever I see a TV camera approaching, my face lights up like a Halloween pumpkin and all the hanging skin inflates like a Thanksgiving Day float based on a long-running animated character. I basically become a holiday parade float of a giant, gay, papier-mâché suckerfish.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Ghost The Musical Gives Me a Sneak Peek

    ​ I arrived at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre last night for the promised taste of Ghost The Musical -- based on the hit 1990 movie about the potter, the potted plant, and the pot smoker -- and immediately scooped up a pretty blue drink sitting on a tray. "That's the Unchained Melody," explained t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Madonna Wanted For Sunset Boulevard

    ​I recently April Fooled you about Madonna getting a special Oscar for acting, but there's finally a role that she could garner some gold with. And she doesn't want it! On Piers Morgan's chat show on CNN, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber said he feels Madonna would be a ''great Norma Desmond'' i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Rosé in the Wintertime; Vintage Beer All the Rage

    ​Andrew Lloyd Webber sold $5.6 million worth of French wine at Sotheby's Hong Kong, including a 1982 case of Château Pétrus for $77,564. [Wall Street Journal] Emilio Estevez finds comfort and inspiration in his backyard vineyard, Casa Dumetz, where he often writes dialogue. [NY Times] Herb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Brits Trade in Scotch for Bourbon; Guinness Good For You, Scientists Say

    ​Scientists say that the future of winemaking depends on developing new varieties of grape that are resistant to disease. [BBC] Bottles of whiskey discovered last year from explorer Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic in the 1900s are being sent back to Scotland for analysis. [BBC ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Live: Peaches Christ Superstar Ascends At The Society For Ethical Culture

    Not nearly as sacrilegious as you may have hoped/feared. Pics by Chris, more below.​Peaches Christ Superstar Starring Peaches and Gonzales The Concert Hall at the Society for Ethical Culture Saturday, December 11 Better Than: Pussies, Peaches' one-woman version of CATS. So here we have Peac ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 1, 2010

    ELECTRO AT THE CROSS

    Do you dare to watch a Peach?

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Patti LuPone Calls Andrew Lloyd Webber "An Alcoholic"

    ​In 1994, Tony winner Patti LuPone was bumped from the starring role in Sunset Boulevard by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, though she'd been promised the Broadway run after doing it in London. Well, some people might have just gone home and cried about it, but some people ain't Patti! Don't c ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 24, 2010

    DRESSING UP FOR THEATER

    Shim Mamsir puts a spin on drama

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Looking Forward To Phantom of the Opera 2?

    ​On naughty, bawdy Broadway, Phantom of the Opera has made more money than all the hookers in the area combined, so you knew there'd eventually be a sequel. And so, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is launching the followup, Love Never Dies, in London, and later in New York, where the tourists will hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Another Brooklyn Indignity: Phantom of the Opera Comes to Coney Island

    ​The terrible thing about the alleged new coolness of Brooklyn -- aside from the escalating rents and increasing population of young collegiate dolts -- is that the outside world is now bringing its aesthetic hideosities to our tree-lined streets. First it was the threat of a Brooklyn Sex & Th ... More >>

  • Theater

    August 4, 2009

    'Summer Shorts 3: Series A' Thinks a Little Too Small

    ​The terrible thing about the alleged new coolness of Brooklyn -- aside from the escalating rents and increasing population of young collegiate dolts -- is that the outside world is now bringing its aesthetic hideosities to our tree-lined streets. First it was the threat of a Brooklyn Sex & Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Magik Markers' Elisa Ambrogio on Andrew Lloyd Weber, Killing Women, and Balf Quarry

    "You have to find a way to create a new experience that is sincere, that is honest in the room without it being pantomime, so that it's not Andrew Lloyd Weber's Magik Markers presents: Cats! And we go into the audience and touch your face." Liz Clayton Elisa Ambrogio is happy today. Her duo with d ... More >>

  • Film

    April 22, 2009

    Tribeca Film Festival 2009 Guide

    "You have to find a way to create a new experience that is sincere, that is honest in the room without it being pantomime, so that it's not Andrew Lloyd Weber's Magik Markers presents: Cats! And we go into the audience and touch your face." Liz Clayton Elisa Ambrogio is happy today. Her duo with d ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 28, 2009

    Fuck You, Facebook! Thank You, Beyonce!

    At Splash, the showtunes must go on.

  • Film

    November 5, 2008
  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008
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    April 23, 2008
  • Columns

    March 27, 2007

    Idols Friendly and Faux

    My tour of modern Grease. Plus a celebulecture and a swashbuckled queen or two or three.

  • Music

    September 26, 2006

    Beelzebabs

    A harrowing look at Satanic motifs in the canon of Barbra Streisand

  • Music

    June 20, 2006

    Life Begins at 50

    Disco-centric Boys avoid becoming boring men

  • Columns

    May 9, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Disco-centric Boys avoid becoming boring men

  • Music

    January 31, 2006

    Sometimes He's Shot

    The piano man has lots of bad songs to play at the Garden, but some are worse than others

  • Theater

    November 22, 2005

    Victorian Shrieklets

    The Woman in White: Andrew Lloyd Webber serves up a Collins that badly needs remixing

  • Columns

    October 4, 2005

    NY Mirror

    The Woman in White: Andrew Lloyd Webber serves up a Collins that badly needs remixing

  • Theater

    March 15, 2005

    Fresh From the Can

    Spamalot seeks the grail of Broadway triumph, but old jokes can only take a (k)night so far

  • Film

    December 14, 2004

    The Phantom Menace

    The saddest musical in the world: A Lloyd Webber revival that proves the show musn't go on

  • News

    September 7, 2004

    Screen Siege

    Cinematic campaigning: This fall, filmmakers assault the status quo at a theater near you

  • Film

    June 1, 2004

    A Fan Who Wasn't There Remembers Broadway's Good Old Days

    Cinematic campaigning: This fall, filmmakers assault the status quo at a theater near you

  • Columns

    April 27, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Cinematic campaigning: This fall, filmmakers assault the status quo at a theater near you

  • Theater

    March 9, 2004

    Fleet Street Blues

    Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase

  • Theater

    December 23, 2003

    The Parody of Parodies That Broadway Musicals Deserve

    Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase

  • Theater

    December 23, 2003

    Holiday Humbug

    Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to Christmas pageantry

  • Music

    December 16, 2003

    Music

    Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to Christmas pageantry

  • Columns

    November 4, 2003

    NY Mirror

    Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to Christmas pageantry

  • Theater

    August 6, 2002

    London Fields

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • News

    April 30, 2002

    Bully for Bollywood

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Theater

    December 25, 2001

    Harlem Tuner Thwarts Mob

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Theater

    December 19, 2000

    The Moment’s Musicals

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Theater

    October 31, 2000

    The People Choice

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Theater

    September 26, 2000

    Theater

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Theater

    June 29, 1999

    Tea in Our Harbor

    Ready for Your Grill This Fourth of July: Broadway Producers

  • Theater

    January 26, 1999

    Home Games

    Ready for Your Grill This Fourth of July: Broadway Producers

  • News

    October 13, 1998

    Quiz Show

    Fans drop beer and pick up pencils to find out who's best

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