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...wonder Andrew Lloyd Webber didn't beat them to it. In Thatcher: The Musical, opening next month in Britain, an all-female cast will sing its way through the life of former Prime Minister MARGARET THATCHER, 80. The Foursight Theatre troupe plans to tour the nation with Iron Lady--inspired ditties like The Cabinet Shuffle. Nothing says toe tapper like the champion of free markets...
...Numbers 7,486 Performances of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera as of last week, making it the longest-running Broadway show of all time...
...resisted offers to go West. But her reluctance dissolved with Geisha. "I didn't even know what potential I had before making Geisha," she says. She is now shooting the Michael Mann film version of Miami Vice (with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) and will then be in Peter Webber's Lecter prequel Young Hannibal. "I don't feel this is a big barrier for me anymore," she says of acting in English. (Mind you, she says it through a translator.) "I'm very pleased to be working with the best American directors...
...WOMAN IN WHITE, book by Charlotte Jones, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel...
...critics have mostly sniffed at what they perceive as another laboriously lush Lloyd Webber score and clumsy lyrics from the usually clever Zippel. Agreed, agreed, and doesn't matter. What's impressive about this adaptation of the Wilkie Collins mystery novel is how it moves. I don't refer only to the patented Trevor Nunn turntable that, for about the 18th time since the director used it in Les Mis?rables, forces the actors to scamper around the stage like rats on a treadmill. I mean the moving scenery: all video projections by designer William Dudley. In your theater seat...