Andrew Lloyd Hasn't Won A Tony Since SunsetAnd that was a participation award since no other musicals qualified for Best Score.
Maybe his problem is that he hasn't worked with Tim Rice in a hot minute.I agree with this actually. I am a Tim Rice fan despite his issues. Webber's best work is with Rice. Not that Rice doesn't have his own issues: my favorite Rice musical is Chess, written without Webber's involvement. And while the songs are great, it does contain one of the best examples of The Straights Not Being Okay.
No lover's ever faithfulNo contract truly signedThere's nothing certain left to knowBut how the cracks begin to show!(Emphasis mine).
Those words come from the song "Nobody's Side," sung by Florence, who was originally played by Elaine Paige. At the time he wrote the lyrics, Tim Rice was having an extramarital affair with *checks notes* Elaine Paige. And knowing that he was cheating on his wife, he had Elaine Paige sing "no lover's ever faithful."
Yes, some lovers are faithful. Just not Tim Rice. And not Anatoly Sergievsky.
Webber has had plenty of commercial success but his talent pales in comparison with Stephen Sondheim who always welcomed critiques, input, and collaboration even years AFTER his musicals were written and staged. I guess what makes you a target for supposed "woke police" is being mediocre to the point of talentlessness.
However, this mention of Webber's panties in a bunch does bring to mind getting stoned out of my gourd and hate-watching the movie version of Phantom. The Phantom of the Opera is there inside your mind but only if you smoke the good stuff. Good times! Thanks for the chuckles, Andy. Two thumb up and a smiley face emoji for you.
I have gone down a serious Starlight Express rabbit hole. Jenna Maroney was in the cast for the Broadway debut! I'm now wracking my brain to remember if there were any jokes on 30 Rock about Starlight Express.
I did not realize ALW was still alive, but the google tells me he's only 75, so I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise. I'm not really a fan of musicals, though I'm old enough to remember when JCSS was a cultural phenomenon and found a number of the songs kind of catchy. I only recently discovered that the dude who sang as Jesus on the original album, Ian Gillan, went on to be the vocalist for "Smoke on the Water" era Deep Purple.
Anyway, it's always amusing when old white dudes, way past their glory days, whine that they would probably be cancelled if anyone actually cared about what they are doing these days. It comes across like they wish they were actually relevant enough to the current culture that someone would make an effort to "cancel" them.
My mother once made the title costume for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." It was for the local community theater that my brother was involved in. The only theatrical supply house around that had a dreamcoat wanted an outrageous amount to rent it, and mom said, Nuts to that, I'll make one.
And so she did. It still hangs in a closet of my childhood home, where my sister still lives. I don't know what I will or should do with it when the time comes to sell the house.
Haven't seen RHPS since I was a teenager, so I don't know if it still holds up for me. I like a couple of "Rock Operas" like Tommy, and I enjoyed the movie versions of Cabaret and Chicago, but usually my response to film musicals ranges from "it's okay, I guess" (My Fair Lady), to "make it stop" (Les Miserables). Unfortunately my wife and daughters love The Sound of Music, and I'm way more familiar with it than I care to be.
The only musicals I've seen on stage were school productions my kids were in, so they were of course amazing.
Andrew Lloyd Hasn't Won A Tony Since SunsetAnd that was a participation award since no other musicals qualified for Best Score.
Maybe his problem is that he hasn't worked with Tim Rice in a hot minute.I agree with this actually. I am a Tim Rice fan despite his issues. Webber's best work is with Rice. Not that Rice doesn't have his own issues: my favorite Rice musical is Chess, written without Webber's involvement. And while the songs are great, it does contain one of the best examples of The Straights Not Being Okay.
No lover's ever faithfulNo contract truly signedThere's nothing certain left to knowBut how the cracks begin to show!(Emphasis mine).
Those words come from the song "Nobody's Side," sung by Florence, who was originally played by Elaine Paige. At the time he wrote the lyrics, Tim Rice was having an extramarital affair with *checks notes* Elaine Paige. And knowing that he was cheating on his wife, he had Elaine Paige sing "no lover's ever faithful."
Yes, some lovers are faithful. Just not Tim Rice. And not Anatoly Sergievsky.
It insists upon itself, and yet it has no idea what it is.
He's a shameless plagiarist.
Wanna play poker?
hooking up with his employee while still married. what a catch!
Webber has had plenty of commercial success but his talent pales in comparison with Stephen Sondheim who always welcomed critiques, input, and collaboration even years AFTER his musicals were written and staged. I guess what makes you a target for supposed "woke police" is being mediocre to the point of talentlessness.
However, this mention of Webber's panties in a bunch does bring to mind getting stoned out of my gourd and hate-watching the movie version of Phantom. The Phantom of the Opera is there inside your mind but only if you smoke the good stuff. Good times! Thanks for the chuckles, Andy. Two thumb up and a smiley face emoji for you.
I have gone down a serious Starlight Express rabbit hole. Jenna Maroney was in the cast for the Broadway debut! I'm now wracking my brain to remember if there were any jokes on 30 Rock about Starlight Express.
Jack Black is not totally untalented. He's a good Jerkass Woobie. Not a good lead, tho.
I can karaoke the shit out of "Pilate's Dream".
(Diksux autocorrect ed "Pilate" to "Popeye's". Yes, I am all about the chicken.
Weird!
I did not realize ALW was still alive, but the google tells me he's only 75, so I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise. I'm not really a fan of musicals, though I'm old enough to remember when JCSS was a cultural phenomenon and found a number of the songs kind of catchy. I only recently discovered that the dude who sang as Jesus on the original album, Ian Gillan, went on to be the vocalist for "Smoke on the Water" era Deep Purple.
Anyway, it's always amusing when old white dudes, way past their glory days, whine that they would probably be cancelled if anyone actually cared about what they are doing these days. It comes across like they wish they were actually relevant enough to the current culture that someone would make an effort to "cancel" them.
My mother once made the title costume for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." It was for the local community theater that my brother was involved in. The only theatrical supply house around that had a dreamcoat wanted an outrageous amount to rent it, and mom said, Nuts to that, I'll make one.
And so she did. It still hangs in a closet of my childhood home, where my sister still lives. I don't know what I will or should do with it when the time comes to sell the house.
And the spinach?
Haven't seen RHPS since I was a teenager, so I don't know if it still holds up for me. I like a couple of "Rock Operas" like Tommy, and I enjoyed the movie versions of Cabaret and Chicago, but usually my response to film musicals ranges from "it's okay, I guess" (My Fair Lady), to "make it stop" (Les Miserables). Unfortunately my wife and daughters love The Sound of Music, and I'm way more familiar with it than I care to be.
The only musicals I've seen on stage were school productions my kids were in, so they were of course amazing.
I'm dying here. LOL.
I'm a history teacher, and I regularly run into kids that believe, in all seriousness, exactly this.
Does he even understand what art is? "Wouldn't be allowed" is not really a thing. Wouldn't be terribly appealing is.