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The secret to writing a good musical
Jesus Christ Superstar is returning to the West End at the Palladium, the theatre owned by its composer. It probably wasn’t too difficult for the show to obtain the booking, but I’m glad to say that the work has continued to be performed all around the world in myriad versions, in many languages, even in venues Andrew does not own, since he and I wrote it in 1969-70.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The role of the Narrator is split into three roles for this production, with solid work from Maree Scott, Jessica Huysing and Natalie Jackson. Joseph’s band of eleven brothers are well played, with Jebedias Smit leading “One More Angel in Heaven” with aplomb, while Kieran Smith croons “Those Canaan Days” a la Jaques Brel, and Johan Anwar conjures Harry Belafonte for “Benjamin’s Calypso”.
‘Slop’ Is Everything and Nothing
Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year has already outlived its usefulness. Photo: kevin lamarque/Reuters Even those of us who spend a lot of time online can have a hard time keeping up with trendy internet slang. Four years ago, everything was either “based” or “cringe.” Last year it was “very demure, very mindful.” Today, everything is “slop.” The term began as a label for the AI-generated absurdities that now dominate social media. It has come to describe everything from food to fashion.
A lotta Hart: Review of 'Blue Moon'
As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on Turner Classic Movies. Only one has stayed with me: the end of what I would eventually come to learn was the 1948 film Words and Music, a biographical musical about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. In the final scene, Hart, played by Mickey Rooney, sneaks out of a hospital to watch a musical before staggering out into the rain and dying.
Trump Education Department Partners With TPUSA, Hillsdale College To Revive Civics Education
WASHINGTON—The Education Department is partnering with a coalition of private organizations to revive civics education in American public schools and on college campuses, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced today. The America 250 Civics Education Coalition “is dedicated to renewing patriotism, strengthening civic knowledge, and advancing a shared understanding of America’s founding principles in schools across the nation,” the coalition said in a press release.
My new show with Andrew Lloyd Webber
The week of my cricket team’s annual tour of Cornwall. I formed Heartaches CC in 1973 and 765 games later it is still going strong. Not that I am a key component of the side these days, if I ever was, despite my seven wickets against Mullion in 1991. When I suffered my fourth injury in three of the past four seasons (and one of them occurred when I was minding my own business umpiring) I saw the writing on the scoreboard. I just hope I’m not injured as a spectator this year.
Gun Rights Advocates Launch ‘Big Beautiful Lawsuit’ to Gut National Firearms Act
Pro-gun organizations are suing the federal government to challenge regulations on silencers and short-barreled firearms in an attempt to parlay a legal change in the Big Beautiful Bill into a complete overhaul of longstanding restrictions on guns.
Andrew Cuomo Falls To Radical Socialist Zohran Mamdani In NYC Mayoral Primary
Andrew Cuomo’s scandal-plagued political career came to an unceremonious end Tuesday when voters overwhelmingly ranked their former governor below a 33-year-old socialist who wants to abolish the police and establish city-run grocery stores. Zohran Mamdani, an Assemblyman from Queens, emerged from the first round of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary with around 44% of the vote.
Kennedy Center Raises $10 Million At Star-Studded ‘Les Miserables’ Premiere
WASHINGTON—The Kennedy Center raised $10 million with Thursday evening’s premiere of “Les Misérables,” a star-studded event attended by President Donald Trump and several top government officials. “We’re going to make it incredible,” Trump said of the Kennedy Center as he walked the red carpet with First Lady Melania Trump. “We have all the funding.
I write the songs. Tim Rice’s hits grew out of his love of LPs and Lloyd Webber’s love of musical theatre
I’m about to embark on a 33-date tour of the UK. This recklessness has come about because a slightly shorter and less arduous version of this escapade worked very well last spring – 22 shows in 28 days, all in England. This time around, I’m also venturing into Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland itself. I made a rather half-hearted attempt to become a pop star in 1964.
‘Étoile’: A promising misstep from the team behind ‘Gilmore Girls’
Twenty-five years ago, Amy Sherman-Palladino burst onto the scene with Gilmore Girls, which earned critical acclaim for its quirky characters and rapid-fire dialogue. After Gilmore Girls, it took Sherman-Palladino a while to land another hit. She and Daniel Palladino, her husband and creative partner, created The Return of Jezebel James, which was canceled after just three episodes. Then came Bunheads, which developed a cult following but only lasted one season. Finally, in 2017, The Marvelous Mrs.
“You Can Just Do Things”
How HBS has rewired my perspective on what’s possible. There’s a meme floating around lately that’s stuck with me: “You can just do things.” It’s a simple phrase, but I think it captures something pretty meaningful. It posits that most of the “bold” actions we imagine — starting a company, cold-emailing a CEO for coffee, moving to a new country — are actually very doable.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Praise the Lord. Jesus Christ Superstar has arrived in Melbourne and delivered the most epic production of the year. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical inspired by the biblical tale of Jesus’ final days seems an odd subject choice for musical theatre. The Bible and glitter don’t necessarily go hand in hand … or do they?
Jesus Christ Superstar
This is an exceptional production of this iconic musical and perfectly captures the edginess that the text exuded when it first exploded on to the theatrical scene in 1971. Depicting the last weeks of the life of Jesus from the perspective of Judas, Jesus Christ Superstar held the record for the longest running show in London until it was overtaken by Cats in 1989. It has enjoyed several revivals as well as film and television adaptations which attest to its enduring popularity and appeal.
EXCLUSIVE: Texas AG Launches Probe Into Schools Scheming To Get Boys Onto Girl Sports Teams
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two school districts whose officials were caught on tape saying they would help alter records for male students so they could play girls’ sports, The Daily Wire has learned. Accuracy In Media last month exposed two school officials in separate districts saying they would violate a Texas law that requires students to play on teams that match their sex.
The Biden Surgeon General’s Alcohol Warning Is Just The Tip Of The Prohibition Iceberg
— Opinion — A secret committee deep in Biden administration wants Americans to stop drinking, The Daily Wire previously reported • Jan 6, 2025 DailyWire.com • As Americans greeted their New Year’s Day hangovers with pledges to lay off the sauce, the Biden administration took a major step towards making every month Dry January.
A Tale Of Two January 6ths
It’s January 6, and a storm is brewing in Washington, D.C. By the end of the day, the nation’s capital could have more than 10 inches of snow, enough precipitation is enough to bring this spiritually-southern city to its knees. Schools are already closed, there are at least two snowball fights planned for the National Mall, and bureaucrats are anxiously refreshing the government snow day page, hoping to work remotely. But there’s at least one group of people settling in for a full work day.
Taylor Swift Opens Toronto Concert With Land Acknowledgment
Snow is on the way in southern Ontario | insauga Colder weather has moved into southern Ontario and snow could soon be on the way. The warm, summer-like weather in early November — with temperatures …
When It Comes to Free Speech, Rob Schneider Isn’t Joking
When It Comes to Free Speech, Rob Schneider Isn’t Joking When Rob Schneider calls you from the car, you can’t help but wonder where he’s going. The set of Happy Gilmore 2? A Los Angeles comedy club? One of …
‘Am I Racist?’ Opens As Third-Highest Grossing Film In The Country
The Daily Wire’s “Am I Racist?” starring Matt Walsh was the third-highest-grossing film on Friday, out-earning a major studio release showing in more than 2,500 theaters. “Am I Racist?” which premiered Friday, outgrossed Lionsgate’s “The Killer’s Game,” and was the second-biggest new release of the day. “Am I Racist,” one of only 15 documentaries ever to open in over 1,500 theaters, also had the third-highest opening day gross for a documentary in the last decade. Am I Racist?
Paint Me Like One of Your Generals
Paint Me Like One of Your Generals July 7, 2024 | Tags: LIBERTY LOFT Why write about the man whose murals adorn the U.S. Capitol rotunda? Perhaps it's because Richard Brookhiser is ahead of the curve. The post Paint Me Like One of Your Generals appeared first on . Read More...
Who are the Tony Awards for?
It may also come as a surprise to the relatives, friends, and roommates whom I’ve forced to watch the Tony Awards over the years that this year I didn’t watch until this magazine’s editor asked me to write about the awards show. But while I remain as steadfast a theater lover as ever, I just can’t get excited about the Tonys anymore. And I don’t seem to be the only one. Just 3.5 million people watched the Tonys this year, a 15% decline from last year’s broadcast.
James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership Original
Leaders fail in different ways. Some are leaders in name only. They have followers aplenty yet live by the mantra of the 19th-century French politician Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (oft-cited by Jonah Goldberg), “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.” Any casual observer of modern American politics is depressingly familiar with these “leaders.” But other leaders fail to attract followers to a cause or idea, even a worthy one.
Arendt Chic Original
Hannah Arendt was a titan of political theory, an original thinker who put modern politics in dialogue with the Western philosophical tradition and helped the 20th century understand itself. She was also, as University of Birmingham professor Lyndsey Stonebridge insists repeatedly throughout We Are Free to Change the World, a woman, a refugee, and someone who liked long walks, talking to her friends, and vibing out while thinking about the craziness of life.
Back to the boomer: Not even sci-Fi is safe from the specter of the sixties
Most alternate histories are built around a grand conceit: What would have happened if Booth’s bullet missed Lincoln or if the Nazis built an atomic bomb? For All Mankind, which recently concluded its fourth season on Apple TV+, offers a more modest counterfactual: How different would things be if the Soviets beat us to the moon by just 24 days?
The unforeseen nature of consequences
In March 1847 the world first read of Mr. Toots saying: “It’s of no consequence.” He went on saying it for the next thirteen months until the last number of Dickens’s Dombey and Son had been published. His embarrassed sallies into affairs of the heart had gained a catchphrase. Mr. Toots’s remark meant ostensibly, “It doesn’t matter,” but I was reminded of it by the warning that the White House issued after the killing of three US servicemembers in Jordan.
How Cleon became a cautionary tale
Last month in a piece on populism, Pericles’ and Cleon’s methods of persuading the Athenian assembly to do their bidding were analyzed: Pericles calm and persuasive, Cleon taking to court or viciously slandering his elite rivals. But Cleon did also have his moment of glory, in circumstances quite extraordinary even by the standards of Athenian democracy. It was described by the historian Thucydides, a contemporary (though he was in exile for an earlier military failure).
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Animation, Musical
The feature film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical based on the biblical tale of Joseph, the son of Israel.The feature film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical based on the biblical tale of Joseph, the son of Israel.The feature film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical based on the biblical tale of Joseph, the son of Israel.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Author(s): Lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Company: Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group Venue: Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Dates: 5–15 Feb 2025 The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Author(s): Lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Company: Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group Venue: Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Dates: 22 Jan–8 Feb 2025 The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide. Featuring the songs "Any Dream Will Do", "Close Every Door", "There’s One More Angel In Heaven" and "Go, Go, Go Joseph".
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Author(s): Lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Company: Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group Venue: Opera House, Manchester Dates: 26 Feb–9 Mar 2025 The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide. Featuring the songs "Any Dream Will Do", "Close Every Door", "There’s One More Angel In Heaven" and "Go, Go, Go Joseph".
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Author(s): Lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Company: Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group Venue: Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes Dates: 6–10 Aug 2025 Tickets: The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide. Featuring the songs "Any Dream Will Do", "Close Every Door", "There’s One More Angel In Heaven" and "Go, Go, Go Joseph".
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Author(s): Lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Company: Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group Venue: Grand Opera House, Belfast Dates: 18–23 Feb 2025 The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide. Featuring the songs "Any Dream Will Do", "Close Every Door", "There’s One More Angel In Heaven" and "Go, Go, Go Joseph".
Beauty and the Beast in Cleveland at Cassidy Theatre 2024
Winners Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards January 09, 2024 Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Cleveland! Winners include Great Lakes Theatre, Olde Towne Hall Theatre, and more. Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Cleveland Awards; Voting Ends 12/31 December 26, 2023 It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight.
Bradley Cooper's Maestro: Neither pure, nor wise, nor good
I’ve always been a little bit irked by Bradley Cooper. It probably has to do with the fact that he burst onto the scene playing a slew of unlikable characters, or maybe the clips of him as a student at the Actors Studio, flashing that same Sack Lodge smile while asking Robert De Niro about the way he rubbed his eye in Awakenings. But really, I think it has to do with A Star Is Born. Cooper is convincing as the troubled country rocker Jack Maine.
ALADDIN - el musical que arrasa en Madrid con una puesta en escena majestuosa y cargada de sorpresas
Todo lo que deseas encontrar en un musical hecho realidad. Eso es Aladdín, el esperado musical creado por Disney y producido por Stage Entertainment que, cada tarde, llena de magia, espectáculo y diversión el teatro Coliseum de Madrid. Considerado uno de los mejores musicales de todos los tiempos, esta espléndida producción te transportará al más deslumbrante de los mundos desde que se levanta el telón.
A Farewell to A Celtic Sojourn
GBH Music bids a fond farewell to A Celtic Sojourn host Brian O’Donovan, who died on October 6th. “A Farewell to A Celtic Sojourn,” hosted by Brad Paul, is a moving presentation that pays tribute to Brian and his legacy of supporting Celtic music and culture. You’ll hear stories told by his friends, longtime collaborators, and colleagues who worked with him at GBH, and hear musical highlights from nearly four decades of A Celtic Sojourn.
Brian O'Donovan, an ambassador for Celtic music and Irish culture
Brian O’Donovan, the longtime host of GBH’s radio show A Celtic Sojourn and the creative force and host of “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” which has been a holiday tradition for New Englanders for over 20 years, died on Friday at his home after a long battle with cancer. He was 66 years old. The cause of death was complications from glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer.
Claremont Review of Books
Download “Old boy! Do you think my name will have a place in human history?” —James A. Garfield, September 18, 1881 James Abram Garfield was inaugurated president of the United States on March 4, 1881, shot by a deranged office-seeker four months later on July 2, and tortured for many weeks by doctors applying primitive medical science until he died on September 19, 1881. Practically no one remembers any of this. Garfield, along with Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and Chester A.
Claremont Review of Books
Download Most anybody who has heard a thing or two about modern poetry can probably tell you that T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) is famous for writing The Waste Land.
Have you missed them?
You may or may have not noticed, but there is currently a writers’ and actors’ strike happening across Hollywood. Major film productions have been shut down, as have regular television and streaming shows. No new content. Anywhere. This also applies to all late-night talk shows. There hasn’t been a fresh new episode of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, or The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon or Kimmel. All three network shows have downed tools in solidarity with the strikers.
Elon Musk wants your biometric data, please
Get a sample of your bodily fluids ready: Elon Musk is coming for them. X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, announced in its updated privacy policies that it will begin collecting users’ biometric data next month. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the policy says. The catch — you don’t have a choice.
Yes, it’s too early for pumpkin beer
The biggest purveyor of misinformation at the moment isn’t a podcast host or a foreign adversary. It’s a brewery. Since announcing the release of its flagship Pumpkinhead Ale on August 1, Shipyard Brewing has commenced a cheeky ad campaign declaring that the dog days of summer are actually the perfect time to enjoy a fall beer.
Yes, it’s too early for pumpkin beer
The biggest purveyor of misinformation at the moment isn’t a podcast host or a foreign adversary. It’s a brewery. Since announcing the release of its flagship Pumpkinhead Ale on August 1, Shipyard Brewing has commenced a cheeky ad campaign declaring that the dog days of summer are actually the perfect time to enjoy a fall beer.
5 Songs You Didn't Know Elton John Wrote for Other Artists
5 Songs You Didn't Know Elton John Wrote for Other Artists Though the 76-year-old British-born singer/songwriter Elton John has announced the end of his touring days, his impact on music and music history will never be forgotten. Case in point: the songs below. Though John is known for songs like "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Bennie and the Jets," the flamboyant dresser and fabulous musician has also helped pen a number of songs for other artists, some famous and some lesser so.
The data-driven confusion of The Forgotten Girls Original
Criticizing a memoir is an odd task. It’s like if someone told you they’d just been pelted with rotten tomatoes and you criticized the stain on their shirt. It’s not like they asked to become a human French fry, and it makes perfect sense that they would want to share such a wild story.
Release the full Pedro files! - The Spectator World
Pedro L. Gonzalez, a very online polemical paleoconservative writer who has a knack for inspiring nicknames indicative of his jackbooted Latinx style — “Burrito Mussolini,” “Barrio Nazi” and “Taco von Ribbentrop” are just a few — found himself in a dunk tank of hot water this week upon the publication at Breitbart of a hit piece authored by Matt Boyle.
Bernie Sanders Finally Found a Corporate Conglomerate He Likes. It Happens To Be His Publisher.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has finally found a corporate conglomerate he doesn't oppose. It just so happens to be the publishing company that paid him a $170,000 advance for a book billed as "a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo." Sanders's latest book, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, is being published by Crown Publishing Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Dirty Dozen Rules For Thriving In D.C.
On Friday, POLITICO, a Beltway gossip blog located many, many floors below the Washington Free Beacon, released a list of its 28 "Rules for Surviving in D.C." The compendium includes such gems as "Say ‘Nice to see you’—even if it is your first time seeing the person," and "Be subtle about asking what someone does for a living." These rules may be helpful for the head-cases who take life advice from Virginia-based political gossip blogs.
What happened to melodies in today’s movie musicals?
Movie musicals are in a special niche of their own – musicals written purely for film, rather than adapted from stage shows or based on songs that are already hits (“the jukebox musical”). But, understandably, they still bear the influence of landmark musical theatre writers. Greg Wells, the music producer behind The Greatest Showman and In The Heights, tells me that a certain trend may have started with Jonathan Larson’s Nineties musical Rent, which was set in New York under the shadow of AIDS.
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