"to the poetry of T. S. Eliot. ""Cats"" (1981) was to become the longest running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years before closing. On Broadway, ""Cats"" ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, ""The Phantom of the Opera"". ""Starlight Express"" (1984) was a commercial hit, but received negative reviews from the critics. It enjoyed a record run in the West End, but ran for less than two years on Broadway. The show has also seen two tours of the US, as well as an Australian/Japanese production, a three-year"
"Judi Dench, cast in the role of Grizabella, snapped her Achilles tendon during rehearsals prior to the London opening. She was replaced by Elaine Paige. The musical was produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, directed by Trevor Nunn, with associate director and choreographer Gillian Lynne, design by John Napier, and lighting by David Hersey. The conductor was Harry Rabinowicz. It played a total of 8,949 performances in London. Its final performance in London's West End was on its 21st birthday, 11 May 2002, and broadcast on a large screen in Covent Garden to the delight of"
"and is a supporter of other animal rights charities and organisations; she is also a vegetarian. In 2014, Lewis made her film debut in the supporting role of Elena in the romantic comedy musical, ""Walking on Sunshine"". In 2016, Lewis made her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Cats""; she played the role from that July to October. Lewis was born on 3 April 1985 in Islington, London, England, to a Welsh mother and a father of Guyanese descent. She has an older half-brother, Bradley, and a younger brother, Kyle. Noticing Lewis's passion for"
"away Grizabella in ""The Jellicle Ball"", when he rescues Demeter, and when he takes over fighting Macavity after Munkustrap falls. In the end he also tried to touch and accept Grizabella back to the tribe. Luke McCollum, Jason Gardiner, Roland Alexander, Hector Jaime Mercado, John Partridge, Edward Lawrence, Trenard Mobley, Leonardo Wagner, Mitchell Hartwell, Robin Langen, Ziyad Sadek, Ahmad Simmons and Shaun Mendum. Alonzo (cat) Alonzo is a character in T. S. Eliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Cats"". His name is mentioned first in the ""Naming of Cats"". His actor sometimes doubles as"
"Ward the Musical"", Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical telling the story of the Profumo scandal. ""Party Animals"", ""The Bill"", ""Kidulthood"", ""The Fugitives"", ""Murder City"", ""Auf Wiedersehen, Pet"", ""The Last Detective"", ""Rosemary & Thyme"", ""Heartbeat"", ""Beech is Back"", ""Relic Hunters"", ""Casualty"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""The Escort"", ""Unfinished Business"", ""Peak Practice"", ""Doctor Finlay"", ""Poetry Readings"", ""Ffizz"", ""Fellow Traveller"", ""Museums of Madness"", ""The Black Candle"", ""Taking the Floor"", ""Boon"", ""The Chief"", ""Six Characters in Search of an Author"" as well as ""Lewis"". Alexander Hanson (actor) Alexander Harald St John Hanson-Akins (born 28 April 1961) is a Norwegian-born British stage actor who has appeared"
"passengers and crew to ensure that everything is running smoothly. He is seen on the stage throughout the musical without his railway outfit until his song. When it is time for his number, he wears a brown waistcoat with a pocketwatch chain. The role of Skimbleshanks was originated in London by Kenn Wells and on Broadway by Reed Jones. Geoffrey Garratt plays him in the 1998 video version of the musical. Jonathan Cerullo played the part in the USA on the National 3 Company. Felix Hess played the part in the Worldwide Tour from 2007-2008. In the worldwide tour at"
"Linda Balgord Linda Balgord is an American Broadway actress and singer, most notable for playing Norma Desmond in the 1996 United States tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Sunset Boulevard"", being the last actress to portray Grizabella in the original Broadway run of ""Cats"" and originating the role of Queen Elizabeth I in ""The Pirate Queen"" on Broadway. She has also played the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera"", previously in the restaged North American tour, and currently on Broadway. Balgord was raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, and graduated from New Lisbon High"
"solo dancers who took the named parts, performed the whole musical on a raised stage in the center of the arena. The Really Useful Group, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Veronica Bennetts, Stephanie Manuel and Paul Leddington Wright all contributed and collaborated to bring this production together. From 21 August through 11 September 2013, the Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival in Auburn, New York, staged a production of the show with Taylor Dayne as Grizabella, KC Fredericks as Mr. Mistoffelees, Patrick Mellen as Old Deuteronomy, and Adam Ryan Tackett as Rum Tum Tugger. Jacob Brent directed and choreographed the production. In July"
"West End the same year as ""Bless the Bride"", but the British musical was not overshadowed by the American hit, enjoying a good reception from the critics and audiences and running for more than two years and 886 performances. Webb became known as ""The Champagne Soprano"", and she was admired on stage for her ""vibrancy and vivacity"". Webb played in pantomime, including the role of Dick Whittington in 1950, and starred as Cinderella opposite the stars of ""The Goon Show"" in 1951 on ""The Light Programme"". Ivor Novello wrote the role of Linda especially for Webb in his last musical,"
"travelled around the world as well as being turned into films. Lloyd Webber has worked with producer Cameron Mackintosh, lyricist Tim Rice, actor Michael Crawford (originated the title role in ""The Phantom of the Opera""), actress and singer Sarah Brightman, while his musicals originally starred Elaine Paige (originated the role of Grizabella in ""Cats"" and had a chart hit with ""Memory""), who with continued success has become known as the First Lady of British Musical Theatre. Agatha Christie's ""The Mousetrap"" has seen more than 25,000 performances in the West End, and is the longest-running West End show. ""The Woman in"
"book, music, and lyrics by Rupert Holmes. Because Dickens's book was left unfinished, the musical hinges upon a novel idea: the audience decides by vote which of the characters is the murderer. The musical's suspect pool includes John Jasper, Neville Landless, Rosa Bud, Helena Landless, Rev. Crisparkle, Princess Puffer, and Mr. Bazzard. Adding further interactivity, the audience also chooses either Rosa Bud, Neville Landless, Helena Landless, Rev. Crisparkle, or Mr. Bazzard to play the role of Dick Datchery since the cast votes that Edwin Drood actually was murdered and cannot be Dick Datchery. As well, one male and one female"
"Samantha Mooney, assistant technical director Ryan Woodard, lighting operator Cody George, assistant costumer Ann Losurdo, costume assistant Hannah Gardner, assistant set dresser Pat Kelly, prop master Katelin Gardner, house manager Sheila LaMere, and general manager Bill LaMere. Photo: Angela Conzone Dwyer as Mrs. Zizzlebot, Meghan Gardner as Topsy Turvey, R. O'Donnell as Belvedere Brumbleton, Christopher Dwyer as Mr. Zizzlebot sing ""Welcome to the Bells & Wheezle Circus"" in ""Alice Isn't All There"" ""Twist"" is a musical comedy adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic ""Oliver Twist"" with book, music, and lyrics penned under Richard O’Donnell’s nom de plume B. R. Kreep. It"
"would be viable to bring the show to Broadway. It received positive reviews and was No.1 on DVD charts in the UK and Ireland, and did well in America. Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits"
"and aquamarine backdrop are among the delights."" The Broadway production was equally praised. Ben Brantley of ""The New York Times"", called it a ""ginormous giggle of a show"", and particularly praised Slater's performance as the titular character. Marilyn Stasio of ""Variety"" stated the show provided a good amount of ""giddy, goofy fun"" for all audiences. Tied with Bartlett Sher for ""My Fair Lady"" SpongeBob SquarePants (musical) SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (originally titled The SpongeBob Musical) is a stage musical, co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau with songs by various artists and a book by Kyle Jarrow. It is based"
"placed at the beginning of the second act and is immediately followed by the Last Supper, the Betrayal, and the Crucifixion. John-Michael Tebelak wrote the first version of ""Godspell"" as his master's thesis at Carnegie Mellon University. The Carnegie Mellon cast included (listed in speaking order): Andrew Rohrer, Mary Mazziotti, Martha Jacobs, Robin Lamont, Robert Miller, Sonia Manzano, Stanley King, Randy Danson, James Stevens, and David Haskell. The show was first produced at La Mama as a play, rather than a musical. Schwartz then added his score. The show opened as a musical at the Cherry Lane Theatre on May"
"Isabel's a Jezebel Isabel's a Jezebel is a British musical with music by Galt MacDermot and book and lyrics by William Dumaresq, based loosely on one of the Grimm's Fairy Tales, centers around Isabel and her deep-sea lover, who spend their time copulating and arguing about bringing children into a world committed to death. After out-of-town tryouts, the musical premiered on 15 December 1970 on the West End at the Duchess Theatre, running for only 61 performances. The cast included Frank Aiello, Sharon Campbell, Helen Chappelle, Peter Farrell, Carole Hayman, Michele Mowbray, Maria Popkiewitz, Miguel Sergides, Howard Wakeling. The production"
"part by an earlier musical version of the same story by Ken Hill, Lloyd Webber's score is sometimes operatic in style but maintains the form and structure of a musical throughout. The full-fledged operatic passages are reserved principally for subsidiary characters such as Andre and Firmin, Carlotta, and Piangi. They are also used to provide the content of the fictional ""operas"" that are taking place within the show itself, viz., ""Hannibal"", ""Il Muto"", and the Phantom's masterwork, ""Don Juan Triumphant"". ""Here, Lloyd Webber pastiched various styles from the grand operas of Meyerbeer through to Mozart and even Gilbert and Sullivan."""
"Musical. She then went on to be the first actress to play the role of Grizabella in the US national touring production of ""Cats"" in 1983, before replacing Betty Buckley in the Broadway production in 1984. She would play the role on Broadway for over four years. She also starred in the Broadway productions of ""The Pirates of Penzance"" (1981) and ""Les Misérables"" (1990) and returned to the role of Grizabella for four months in 1997, when ""Cats"" became the longest running musical in Broadway history. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beechman possessed an incredible singing voice, powerful, yet subtle and"
"album ""Variations"", which had featured his brother, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, to create the show ""Song and Dance."" The first act saw Webb reprise her role as the unnamed girl. In the second act Wayne Sleep and a dance troupe performed choreographed routines to the music from ""Variations"". The pair toured with the show in the latter half of the decade. In the mid 1980s, she again succeeded Elaine Paige, as Grizabella in the musical ""Cats"" both in the West End production at the New London Theatre and subsequently on a UK tour. In 1995, at the age of 50,"
"directed by Matthew Gould. The Roundabout Theatre Company presented a Broadway revival at Studio 54, which opened in November 2012. The production was directed by Scott Ellis, and starred Chita Rivera as Puffer, Stephanie J. Block as Drood, Will Chase as Jasper, Jim Norton as the Chairman and Gregg Edelmann as Crisparkle. Further reading Drood The Mystery of Edwin Drood (or simply Drood) is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". It is written by Rupert Holmes, and was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings (determined by audience vote). Holmes received Tony"
"London's West End. Azaria made his first appearance as Sir Lancelot, the French Taunter, and four other characters in ""Spamalot"", the musical version of ""Monty Python and the Holy Grail"", which opened in Chicago in December 2004, before moving to the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. The show met with critical acclaim, receiving fourteen Tony Award nominations in 2005, with Azaria being nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. Reuniting with ""The Birdcage"" director Mike Nichols, and being a huge ""Monty Python"" fan, he saw it as an opportunity he could not pass up, describing it as"
"musicals The Phantom of the Opera, We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia, West Side Story, Annie, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Grease and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; international artists Bryn Terfel, Elaine Paige, Jamie Oliver, Rick Stein, Hale and Pace, Roy Chubby Brown, Anthony Warlow and David Campbell; boutique shows Slava's Snowshow, One Night of Queen, Circus Oz, Potted Potter, Stomp, Abba Mania, Storm and Raise the Red Lantern by the Chinese National Ballet; plays Stuff Happens, The Woman in Black, The Mousetrap, Grumpy Old Women and The 39 Steps; children's shows Barney the Dinosaur, Thomas the Tank Engine,"
"Kevin Hammonds' ""When Midnight Strikes"", the UK premieres of ""Lucky Nurse and Other Short Musical Plays"" by Michael John LaChuisa, Darius Milhaud’s opera ""Médée"", ""Myths and Hymns"" by Adam Guettel, ""John and Jen"" by Andrew Lippa and ""Three Sides"" by Grant Olding, and an acclaimed series 'Celebrating British Musical Theatre' from the Victorian and Edwardian era with ""Florodora"", ""Our Miss Gibbs"", ""The Maid of the Mountains"" and ""A Gilbert and Sullivan Doublebill"" featuring ""Sweethearts"", a play by W.S. Gilbert, ""The Zoo"", an operetta by Arthur Sullivan and Bolton Rowe, the opera ""The Boatswain's Mate"" by Ethel Smyth and two rare"
"lasting from 23 October 2015 to 2 January 2016 starring Beverley Knight as Grizabella. From October 2015 to May 2016, a revival toured Australia, visiting Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The revival featured singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem as Grizabella, before Delia Hannah took over the role during the Adelaide and Perth seasons. A Broadway revival opened on 31 July 2016 at the Neil Simon Theatre. Nicole Scherzinger, who played Grizabella in the 2014 West End revival, had originally agreed to reprise the role on Broadway, but her desire to return as a judge on ""The X Factor"" led her"
"The production was directed by Luke Sheppard, designed by Tom Rogers, choreographed by Tim Jackson. It was revealed upon the announcement by Townsend's husband, Colin Broadway, that Townsend had been working with the writers, Brunger and Cleary on the musical from 2012 to before her death in 2014. The musical made its London debut in a new production at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark from 14 July to 6 September 2017, with an official opening on 26 July. The new production was again directed by Luke Sheppard and designed by Tom Rogers with new choreography by Rebecca Howell. The"
"Barbara, Stepping Out The Normal Heart, La Traviata, Bert and Maisie Dream of Sussex Downs, The Song is You, West Side Story, Siamese Twins, School for Clowns, Tales of Hoffman, The Winslow Boy, Conversations with a Fainthearted Feminist, Peter Pan: The Musical A Streetcar named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Breaking the Code, The Mikado, The Sound of Music, Squatter, I'm Not Rappoport, Les liaisons dangereuses, Gershwin by George, Oedipus Rex, Ladies Night, Gypsy, The Kiss of the Spider Woman The Share Club, The Rivers of China, Bloodknot, Twelfth Night, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Homecoming, South Pacific, Burn This, Beauty and"
"Prague and the Ugala Teater in Estonia. ""Boyband"" a pop musical that has played runs in London (West End – Gielgud Theatre), Cape Town, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Parnu, Bratislava, Osaka and Tokyo. ""The Canterville Ghost"" a family musical based on Oscar Wilde's story (with music by Charles Miller). It toured the UK in 1998 starring Ron Moody. ""The Nightingales"" a comedy with music based around a theatrical family in the 1950s. The World Premiere was at the Contra Kreiss Theater in Bonn Germany in 2012. Peter Quilter Peter Quilter is a West End and Broadway playwright whose plays have been"
"(1976), ""My Fair Lady"" (1978) and ""Tomfoolery"" (1980). In 1981, he produced Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""Cats"", then considered an unlikely subject for a musical. It became the hit of the season and went on to become one of the longest running musicals on both sides of the Atlantic. After the success of ""Cats"", he approached the French writing team Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil about bringing their musical ""Les Misérables"" (then a successful French concept album) to the London stage. The musical opened in 1985 at the Barbican before transferring to the Palace Theatre. ""Les Misérables"" had a shaky start"
"for The Disney Channel currently titled ""Scramble Band"", with Michael Weiner, writing a new musical updating Jane Austen's Emma to the Helen Gurley Brown 1960s New York, ""The Single Girls Guide"" which he developed at Seattle Fifth Avenue Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Ars Nova, Goodspeed Musicals, ASCAP and a developmental production at Capital Rep and then NAMT. He is co-writing ""Port-Au-Prince"" as a NYSCA commission for The New Group with Kirsten Childs. Greenberg has noted that ""I’d had a long-standing love for Gilbert and Sullivan. Gilbert and Sullivan, in their day, were the Saturday Night Live or the Jon Stewarts,"
"roles of others are expanded. In the musical, Bazzard is Crisparkle's assistant, whereas in the novel he is employed by Rosa's guardian, Mr. Grewgious. Meanwhile, in order to increase the interactivity of the play and introduce doubt as to who the murderer is, the musical omits several of the novel's clues that Jasper is the killer and introduces clues which do not appear in the novel pointing at other suspects. Act One opens as the members of the Music Hall Royale circulate among the audience, introducing themselves to the patrons. More and more members of the company add to the"
"Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably ""The Music of the Night"" and ""All I Ask of You"" from ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""I Don't Know How to Love"
"the West End production of ""Top Hat"" beginning 5 February 2013. He joined the Broadway revival of ""Les Miserables"" as Thenardier beginning 3 March 2015. Lee plays Squidward Tentacles in ""SpongeBob SquarePants, the Broadway Musical"". The stage musical premiered at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, and ran from June to July 2016. Lee reprises his role as Squidward for the Broadway run of the musical, starting with November 2017 previews at the Palace Theatre. Lee would later be nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Squidward. Lee is married to"
"trying to keep Gilfain from acquiring his ancestral home. Tweedlepunch finally confronts Gilfain and spins a wild ghost yarn that terrifies Gilfain into admitting that he has stolen the perfume business. Gilfain returns the properties he has taken from Dolores and Frank. Frank marries Dolores; Gilfain marries Lady Holyrood; and Angela marries Captain Donegal. Florodora Florodora is an Edwardian musical comedy. After its long run in London, it became one of the first successful Broadway musicals of the 20th century. The book was written by Jimmy Davis under the pseudonym Owen Hall, the music was by Leslie Stuart with additional"