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John Cudia as the Phantom woos Trista Moldovan with the music of the night in the U.S. touring production of The Phantom of the Opera, which plays through the holidays at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. Photo by Joan Marcus
All I ask of `Phantom’: wishing you were somehow not here again««
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The [...]
Megan Hilty (left) as Glinda and Eden Espinosa as Elphaba from the original LA company of Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus
Old friends, new winners mark 30th anniversary season
Carole Shorenstein Hays and Robert Nederlander’s new SHN/Best of Broadway season marks a milestone: 30 years of bringing Broadway to the Bay Area.
The new season, announced [...]
According to “American Idol,” Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is responsible for some of the most “important” musicals of all time.
Wow. That’s pretty big. Step aside, Rodgers and Hammerstein. Back of the bus, Stephen Sondheim. The man who brought us Starlight Express and Catsis assuming the position of importance.
It’s undeniable that Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice [...]
I knew there’d be a theater connection eventually so I could write about it here.
A point of pride for me the last seven years or so was that I had never so much as seen an episode of “American Idol.” It was hard not to know every detail of the show, even without watching it, [...]
Ill wind, you’re blowing me no good.
Actually, the winds are favorable. If you’ve ever heard the original London cast album of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the Wind, you may be relieved to know that the American touring production of the show, which had previously been announced as part of the SHN/Best [...]
You knew Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Cats, right? Well, did you know he also wrote a dog?
In the Lloyd Webber canon, only By Jeeves was more critically pummeled than Whistle Down the Wind, a collaboration with lyricist Jim Steinman (of Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” fame). [...]
Ted Neeley is not Jesus Christ, though you might be excused for thinking otherwise.
Like Yul Brynner in The King and I or Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! Neeley has come to be associated with one particular role: Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. He did the New York and Los Angeles productions back in the early [...]
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