Andrew Lloyd Webber

Broadway Musicals I Never Want To See

And yet I can smell them coming... Bluesies: A scaled-down version of Newsies starring the Blue Man Group, this show won't have any singing (the guys never make a sound) and zero dancing (they're always carrying large, cumbersome tubes), but oh, those facial expressions!

The Time Ben Vereen Teed Off Andrew Lloyd Webber

I caught Tony winner Ben Vereen's opening at 54 Below last night, where he was rivetingly entertaining, bringing fresh life to standards while giving about 175% on every syllable. And he told a few fascinating anecdotes too. Like how, when he tried out for Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar way back ... More >>

Les Miz Trailer: Is Anne Hathaway Better Than Susan Boyle?

Les Miserables--based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit that Andrew Lloyd Webber actually had nothing to do with--is coming to the screen in all its stirring pathos and musicality. And here comes the trailer, which consists of Anne Hathaway singing an anguished "I Dreamed A Dream," as we see brownish ... More >>

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

Once again, feel-good battles artsinessfor the Antoinettes

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 >>

Evita: Sigh for Them, Argentina

Michael Grandage helms the latest Rice-Webber Broadway revival

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 >>

Jesus Christ Superstar: What's the Buzz?

A classic rock musical gives Broadway another try

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.

Jesus Christ Superstar

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

ELECTRO AT THE CROSS

Do you dare to watch a Peach?

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 >>

DRESSING UP FOR THEATER

Shim Mamsir puts a spin on drama

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

Tribeca Film Festival 2009 Guide

Fuck You, Facebook! Thank You, Beyonce!

At Splash, the showtunes must go on.

Embarrassing Camp in Repo! The Genetic Opera

A Saw director gets musical

Halloween Special: Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd.

American Idol Week Nine: Broadway Week Sucks Majestically

Beelzebabs

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

Life Begins at 50

Disco-centric Boys avoid becoming boring men

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Sometimes He's Shot

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

Victorian Shrieklets

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

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The Phantom Menace

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

Screen Siege

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

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

Fleet Street Blues

Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase

The Parody of Parodies That Broadway Musicals Deserve

Holiday Humbug

Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to Christmas pageantry

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London Fields

New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

Harlem Tuner Thwarts Mob

The Moment’s Musicals

The People Choice

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Tea in Our Harbor

Ready for Your Grill This Fourth of July: Broadway Producers

Home Games

Quiz Show

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