There are few things on this Earth as reliable as the fact that at any moment, someone is working on a new Cinderella adaptation. This time it’s *spins giant wheel* Andrew Lloyd Webber! Wow, yes, now that you mention it, the world does need a rock opera Cinderella.
As a child, I was routinely terrorized by the singing felines in Cats. Not from the musical, mind you, but in the commercials for the musical, which aired nonstop on PBS and filled my dreams with images of lithe, scary humans with long claws and tenor ranges. Now their creator, and therefore my tormentor, is getting a…
No shade to Madonna, but I didn’t realize how much I liked “You Must Love Me” until I heard Lana del Rey sing it. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote it for the 1996 film version of Evita, basically so something from the movie, which was otherwise full of preexisting music, could win Best Original Song at the…
Does anyone, including her own mother, love Nicole Scherzinger as much as Andrew Lloyd Webber? Doubt it!
Picture it: You’re settling into the damp, dark uterine warmth of your regular SoulCycle class, candles flickering atmospherically, when you hear it—the insistent organ and pounding, synth-y beats of the opening notes of The Phantom of the Opera. Act fast, and this could be your reality!
The claws are out, fam!!!
Phantom of the Opera has been running on Broadway for more than 25 years—an impossibly long time—and it shows its age. But in 1988, it was the hottest shit going, and it had the splashy premiere to prove it.
No, that headline is not a joke, I promise. A new revival of the beloved musical Cats will feature rap music and rapping cats. I kid you not.
Andy Griffith, who died this morning at age 86, was buried today on his farm on North Carolina's Roanoke Island after a small private ceremony. President Obama offered a brief tribute: "Michelle and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Andy Griffith this morning. A performer of extraordinary talent, Andy was…
Proving that he is human just like the rest of us, Broadway/West End legend Andrew Lloyd Webber has found himself obsessed with Downton Abbey. Unlike the rest of us, he has the money to place a bid on Highclere Castle, the real-life estate used as Downton in the show, and is being a real showy asshole about it.…
Uninhibited electro-sex rocker Peaches was initially denied a license to perform her personal interpretation of "Jesus Christ Superstar," because Andrew Lloyd Webber's production company was worried about her phallic crucifixes and other sex-stuff. But everything worked out in the end.
What movie doesn't benefit from some jazz hands? The producers behind the recent Broadway success Xanadu are developing a musical version of the 1995 Nicole Kidman vehicle To Die For. Because a story about a woman who commits statutory rape against a high school student and then convinces him to kill her husband is…
