After closing its doors in January for refurbishment, the theatre reopened in Feb as The Other Palace, the home of musical theatre. Although there have been various earlier entertainment buildings on the site the reconstructed Adelphi Theatre, with its art deco interiors, opened to the public in December with Jessie Matthews starring in Ever Green.
The front-of-house areas were restored to their original lustre and extravagance in when Andrew Lloyd Webber became co-owner and opened his musical production of Sunset Boulevard. For more information visit the official Adelphi Theatre website. The Cambridge is one of the youngest and most attractive theatres in the West End, having opened in with interior decoration by Serge Chemayeff of Waring and Gillow. These were completely restored under the supervision of Carl Toms in Although the Gillian Lynne is a modern building there has entertainment on the site since Elizabethan times.
Direction was by Trevor Nunn with choreography by Gillian Lynne. The show ran for 21 years. The current building was erected by the famous Actor-Manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to house his spectacular productions of Shakespeare and literary adaptations and opened in It was a venue to which all performers aspired and has hosted more annual Royal Variety Performances than any other theatre.
Since the Theatre Royal Drury Lane has provided entertainment for the masses and has been visited by every monarch since the Restoration. The theatre has not one, but two, royal boxes and it was here that the public first heard both the National Anthem and Rule Britannia. Previous buildings were managed by the great actor David Garrick and the famous playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the current, fourth, building was opened in When it comes to musical theatre, there is hardly anyone with the caliber of contributions as Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The British Composer has composed several musicals, film scores, and variations. He was naturally influenced by music at a very early age, for his father was a celebrated composer and an organist, while his mother was a violinist and a pianist, thus, he was trained in various instruments and compositions at a very young age.
Some sources state that he compiled a suite of six pieces while he was only nine years old. His aunt was also instrumental in pushing him towards a career in theatre.
Based on T. Rice was called in to provide assistance on the lyrics for the now-famous "Memory, " but his words were abandoned in favor of Nunn's. Webber found himself attracted at first vocally, then romantically, to performer Sarah Brightman. She was a castmember in Cats, and in he abandoned his first wife, Sarah Hugill, for her. With Cats, spectacle became the key to success both in London and on Broadway.
It was only natural that a production like Starlight Express would follow on its heels. Webber and Prince were paired again for the romantic production of Phantom of the Opera. Webber's production Aspects of Love was in many ways a "retread.
In April he announced his intention to take a hiatus from writing musicals and to turn to moviemaking, perhaps even a film version of Cats with Stephen Spielberg. Ironically, in July Webber announced his impending divorce from Sarah Brightman while she was completing her summer concert tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
However, after the November divorce the couple planned to continue working together, despite Webber's early marriage in London to Madeleine Gurdon. TIME magazine music critic Michael Walsh's Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works dealt with chronologically deftly combines intelligent criticism of the composer's works with biographical detail.
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