stage premiere. Revived to great acclaim in the late 1990s, it has everything you'd expect from a blockbuster: great songs, strong characterisation and, crucially, a cracking story. This video is based on the 1998 London production. Director Gale Edwards pulls few punches in her efforts to draw a truly modern interpretation from a gifted cast. Pilate's cronies are sinister Darth Vader look-alikes. The whole thing has a hard, brutal edge, which both startles and thrills. And anyone who dismisses musicals as lightweight confections could do worse than look at the way Lloyd Webber and Rice treat Judas: this is a complex, well-written role. The performances are largely excellent: Jerome Pradon' Judas shines, and Renee Castle's Mary reinvents "I Don't Know How to Love Him" as a delicate exploration of her dilemma, far removed from its usual overblown treatment. Rik Mayall's relentlessly gurning Herod is less of a bonus than he would like us to believe, but will doubtless appeal to his fans. And the quality of Glenn Carter's singing in the title role makes up for a slight deficiency in the charisma department. --Piers FordOn the DVD: Die-hard groupies will appreciate the inclusion of a documentary about the making of the video, which includes interviews with the cast, the production team and Lloyd Webber and Rice. There are also previews for video productions of Cats and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Advantages: Art can only have advantages Disadvantages: Don't see any
...represents the last supper, the famous scene in the Bible with Christ that sits at the table in the center and his disciples sit around him. This painting is probably the most important one among all works of art representing Christian subjects. It has always been in our imagination. Maybe some of you will remember for instance the film JesusChristSuperstar. The Last Supper scene was taken from Il Cenacolo. All actors suddenly put themselves in the same position as the disciples in Leonardo’s painting.
Begun in 1495, it took three years to finish it.
Today Il Cenacolo is not in a good condition and is mostly damaged. Many are the causes but Leonardo is the first one responsible for the damage. In fact he did not use the “fresco” technique, the right one to be applied on a wall painting but a dry technique usually applied to canvas, a mixture...
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Advantages: Great singing, dancing. Disadvantages: Hammy acting.
...million soundtrack albums worldwide.
Don Black – LYRICS. Also has Sunset Boulevard, Tell Me on A Sunday and a number of Bond themes to his name.
Steven Pimlott – DIRECTOR. Dr Dolittle and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat also directed by him.
Anthony Van Laast - CHOREOGRAPHER. Mamma Mia!, JesusChristSuperstar, Whistle Down the Wind and the USA tour of My Fair Lady.
Farah Khan – CHOREOGRAPHER. Award-winning Bollywood choreographer.
Andrew Lloyd Webber – PRODUCER. Composed Joseph, JesusChristSuperstar, Jeeves, Tell Me on a Sunday, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind and The Beautiful Game. Currently working on a musical based on Wilkie Collins’ novel The Woman in White and a feature film version of Phantom to be director by (oh dear) Joel Schumacher...
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SING! My Angel of Music Review ofThe Phantom of the Opera / Her Majesty´s Theatre (London)by
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Advantages: A brilliant show, The music Disadvantages: Leg Room
...Telegraph
The cast in the performance I saw range from unknowns to experienced actors. All were fantastic with the actors in the main roles doing a fantastic job.
The Phantom- Played by Earl Carpenter. Earl has had attended Bournmouth's Jellicoe Theatre training school and has had roles as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Courfeyrac in Les Miserables and Darryl Van Horne in The Witches of Eastwick.
Christine Daae- Played by the talented Rachel Barrell. Rachel was trained at the Guilford school of acting. Before the Phantom she played Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Belle in Beauty and the Beast
Raoul- Played by Dvid Shannon. David started his career touring in Les Miserables and has been involved with other tours of Oklahoma and JesusChristSuperstar.
The best thing about the show has to be the songs. They are theatre classics...
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