Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Contents

• What is a musical?
• The king of the musical
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Cats
• How Memory appeared
• Memory (a song)
• The Beautiful Game
• Its interesting to know
• Quiz

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What is a musical?

• Any London theatre guide will tell you that
  musicals today are the most loved and
  best-attended performances.
• Musical plays or musicals combine songs and
  dances in both traditional and modern styles with
  stories of dramatic interest.

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The king of the musical

• The king of the musical today is Andrew Lloyd
  Webber whose masterpieces Cats, Starlight
  Express and Evita are internationally known.
• His musical career started in the 70s with
  Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and
  continued up to the 80s and 90s with Cats and
  Joseph.

Joseph
Evita
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• The songs for his musicals are often very
  emotional and the plays are often animated.
• The most famous animation was the performance of
  a story about trains Starlight Express in which
  all the actors wore roller skates.

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The Phantom of the Opera

• Romantic The Phantom of the Opera was written
  in 1988. It has been successfully playing in
  London and New York.
• We can read about it in our Students Books (p.
  56) and Activity Books (p. 25)

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1. What is this musical about? 2.
What novel is it based on?
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Cats

• T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is an English poet and
  writer of plays. He won the 1948 Nobel Prize for
  literature.

• Webbers musical Cats is based on the book by
  T.S. Eliot Old Possums Book of Practical Cats
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• This musical is about the life of cats that love
  and suffer like people.

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• The idea to turn the book into a musical came to
  A.L. Webber in 1972 when he picked up the book at
  an airport. As he read it, he remembered that his
  mother used to read it to him.
• Some years later, he got his friend, Trevor Nunn,
  to help him turn the poetry book into a musical.
  When Nunn

• and Webber went into a rehearsal, all they
  had were parts of songs, and they didnt have a
  story to support it.
• However, Valerie Eliot (T.S. Eliots widow) found
  an old sheet of paper with eight lines about
  Grizabella.
• It was the very thing that could tie the whole
  show together.

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• The original production opened at the New London
  Theatre, in the West End on the 11th of May in
  1981.
• Cats is the longest-running show in the world
  history. It has been played in 250 cities in 20
  countries and has been translated into 10
  languages.

• Cats won seven Tony Awards, including the
• Best Musical.

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1. Where and when did this musical
open?2. What is it famous for?
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How Memory appeared

• That night, Webber went home overnight one of
  most famous songs was born. The song was
  Memory but at that time, it hadnt any lyrics.
  It was just a melody.
• Nunn wrote the lyrics and Grizabella had an
  emotional outlet. She had left the tribe of
  Jellicle Cats to

• experience the outside world, remembered the
  hard times as she had had.
• The song told about the past forever lost, and
  her desire to return to the tribe.

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• The shows most famous song, Memory, has become
  one of the most successful songs in
• the musical history.
• Since the original recording by Elaine Paige in
  June 1981, it has been recorded by over 160
  artists.

• It has become a classic song and has been
  recorded more than six hundred times!
• Another hit is, of course, Macavity.

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Memory (a song)
1) Midnight, see the dew on a sunflower And a
rose that is fading. Roses wither away.
Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the
dawn, I am waiting
for the day. 3) Memory, all alone in
the moonlight I can smile at the
old days. I was beautiful then.
I remember the time I knew what
happiness was.
Let the memory live again.
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The Beautiful Game

• The latest success from A.L. Webber (now Lord
  Lloyd-Webber after being ennobled in 1996) is
  The Beautiful Game, a message musical set in
  Northern Ireland combining the national passion
  for soccer with a plea for tolerance and peace.

• The 1960s story about
• a teenage soccer team
• and young love won
• the best musical of
• the year award.

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Its interesting to know
Webber wrote a part of Christine in The
Phantom of the Opera for his wife
Sarah Brightman. It was this role that made her
famous.
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Quiz
1. Who is considered to be the king of the
musical? 2. Can you name his musicals and rock
operas? 3. How many Tony Awards did Cats
win?
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Starlight Express,
Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Joseph, The
Beautiful Game
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