The most classic should be Weber’s musical!
A brief history of the life of Andrew Webber
Webber’s classic musicals: "Cats", "Evita", "Phantom of the Opera", "Jesus Christ Superstar"
Andrew Lloyd Webber is a famous British musical composer.
Born on March 22, 1948, in a family of professors and piano teachers at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, he studied at Magdalen College and co-wrote with lyricist Tim Rice during his studies. "The Way We Are". I like the works of modern composers such as Hindemi th, Ligeti and Penderecki.
In 1967 he co-wrote "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Jacket" with Rice, which was performed in London schools in 1968, then in London's West End theater and broadcast on national television in 1972.
In the early 1970s, Webb composed the scores for the British films "The Detective" and "The Odessa Column"
Soon after, he co-wrote "Jesus" with Tim Rice "Christ Superstar" was performed in New York in 1971 and won seven Tony Awards. In 1973, the play was made into a movie.
When "Jeeves" was created in 1974, collaborator Alan Eyckbourne replaced Rice.
He also collaborated with Tim Rice to create "Evita", which was performed on Broadway in 1981.
Later Weber adapted "Cats" and created his second musical "Song and Dance" (1982), among which "Don't Look So Bad" and "Tell Me on Sunday" became a huge success.
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So far, Weber has become the only musical composer to have three works performed simultaneously in London's West End and Broadway.
In 1983, he produced the comedy "The Extraordinary Man Takes It Away."
In 1984, he collaborated with Richard Stilger to create "Starlight Express"
Then he produced "The Hired Man" and "Lend Your Voice" at the Royal Theater in London. "Give Me"
Worked on "On Pointe" with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and became the owner of the theater
Created "Sunset Boulevard" in 1992, which was performed in London on July 12, 1993.
In 1994, Weber was listed among the 100 most influential people in American theater compiled by "Drama Weekly" magazine. At any one time, at least a dozen of his touring troupes were performing Weber's musicals in major cities in the United States, Britain, and around the world.
"He wrote for his father." The album "Requiem" and his "Variations" combined became the best-selling album, and the subsequent "Premiere" album became a triple platinum album (selling over 60 million units).
The pop single "Requiem", sung by Weber's second wife Sarah Brightman, entered the UK top 10 charts
Created for the 1996 Barcelona Olympics. "The Friends of Life"
Webber is one of the greatest musicians to rewrite the history of musical theater
Introduction
"Cats" is the world. The most successful musical in history. Its playwright, Andrew Lloyd Webber, is an extremely rare talent in the history of world musicals. The authoritative "Drama Weekly" listed Webber as "the most influential person in American theater." The British royal family awarded him a knighthood in recognition of his outstanding contribution to British theater and world musicals.
It was his creations that sparkled with genius that made the musical theater stage in the second half of the 20th century famous for "Joseph and the Colored Coat", "Evita", "Sing and Dance", "Cats", and "Starlight Express" , "The Ghost of the Opera" and "Sunset Boulevard" became colorful and fascinating. It is precisely because of his genius creation that he left us "Argentina, Don't Cry for Me", "Memories", "On Sunday" Tell Me", "Nocturne", "Love Changes Everything" and a series of wonderful musical theater songs.
The longest continuously touring play in the history of American theater
"Cats" opened at the New London Theater in London on May 11, 1981 ("Cats" is still here Since its premiere, Cats has been seen by 65 million people around the world. "Cats" premiered on Broadway on October 7, 1982, and is one of the longest-running productions in Broadway history. On September 28, 1994, Cats reached the milestone of its 5,000th Broadway performance. "Cats" is still performed around the world and has become the longest continuously touring play in the history of American theater. In November 1993, "Cats" became the first major Western musical to be staged in Singapore and Southeast Asia. By September 1995, "Cats" had grossed more than US$2 billion worldwide.
Special visual effects
The success of "Cats" can be attributed to many reasons. Andrew Lloyd Webber's music and T.S. Eliot's poetry captivated the audience. In addition, the special visual effects of "Cats" also greatly attracted the audience. There are a total of 2,000 to 2,500 props in the play. From any seat, the audience can see 1,500 oversized toothpaste tubes, broken plates, broken cartoons and other items in the garbage disposal site from their own perspective. Plant garbage. More than 100 kinds of props were used in the play, and more than 30 wigs were made of yak hair. Only the wig of "Grizebella" was made of human hair. More than 250 sets of costumes were used in the play.
"Cats" won everything and left lasting "memories"
"Cats" has achieved success one after another in London, on Broadway, and around the world. "Cats" Win it all. It won seven Tony Awards in 1983, including Best Musical. This quirky, otherworldly musical earned Weber worldwide renown, especially for its so-called "11 o'clock song," "Memories," sung by the old cat "Charming Grizebella." With a sad mood and touching melody, it expresses the longing for Grizebella's memories of leaving the Jericho cat tribe and going out to explore, experiencing various difficult encounters and people
"Synopsis"
This film describes a love story that took place at the Paris Opera House in France in the 19th century. It was 1882, and deep in the cellar of the Opera House, legend has it that there lived an ugly, masked, but knowledgeable musical genius. For many years, he had been elusive, avoiding the fearful and contemptuous eyes of the world, and was known as "The Music Man". "Phantom" (Jared Butler). He often creates all kinds of chaos in his ghostly appearance, drives away singers he hates, and even interferes with the selection of protagonists and the arrangement of dramas in the opera house.
Inadvertently, Phantom discovers that small-name female singer Christine (played by Emmy Rossum) has an extraordinary talent for her voice, which he admires endlessly. After being impressed, the Phantom decided to train the young and beautiful Christine to become a prima soprano at all costs. However, the love of music that originally originated from the spiritual level has gradually transformed into a strong desire for possession. The obsessed Phantom took practical actions to eliminate all those who hindered Christine's singing career.
Later, the theater investor Raul (played by Patrick Wilson) recognized Christine as his childhood friend, and the two fell in love. After the Phantom found out, he felt betrayed and angrily cut off the chain of the stage chandelier, causing the entire gorgeous crystal chandelier to smash into pieces in the audience. As the Phantom's destruction becomes increasingly bloody and insane, Christine's feelings for him gradually shift from fascination to fear, terror, and pity.
Half a year later, Raul and Christine were secretly engaged. The Phantom suddenly appeared at the masquerade ball at the Opera House, forcing the Opera House to perform the opera "Don Giovanni" he composed himself, and named Yuk. Christine plays the female lead. The distraught Christine ran to her father's grave in the middle of the night and cried, while Raul vowed to fight the Phantom to the end.
On the day of the premiere of "Don Giovanni", the opera house was surrounded by police. Unexpectedly, the Phantom actually killed the leading actor and dressed up in person to play opposite Christine. At the climax of the play, Christine pulls off his mask in public. When the Phantom is ashamed and heartbroken, he takes Christine abducted to his underground secret room. Raul tracked underground and started a duel with the Phantom, but was choked by him with a rope. The Phantom used this to blackmail Christine into agreeing to marry him.
In order to protect her lover Raul, Christine resolutely leaned forward and kissed the Phantom's face that seemed to be cursed by hell. At this point, the outcome of this love affair has been decided. The desperate phantom sent away the tightly embracing lovers, and quietly disappeared before the police and the crowd broke into the underground secret room, leaving only a sad mask that seemed to be smiling but not smiling...
《 Actor Cast"
Jared Butler (played as the Phantom)
Butler was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He loved acting since he was a child. He appeared on stage at the famous King's Theater in his hometown at the age of twelve. Acting and determined to be an actor from then on. He attended classes at the Scottish Youth Theatre, but was discouraged from acting by school counselors. So Jared Butler went to law school for seven years before moving to London to pursue his childhood dream.
Butler met the famous British actor and director Steve Berkoff in a London cafe and begged him to give him a chance. As a result, he won the role of Coriolanus. ) plays a role. In 1996, Butler, who had no agent, auditioned for the lead role in the stage play Trainspotting.
His screen debut was the famous Mrs. Brown, starring Judi Dench; this story about the horse care servant John Brown and Queen Victoria was shortlisted for an Oscar in 1998. In the same year, he played the protagonist in the film version of The Cherry Orchard. Butler then turned to comedy and played the hilarious rock star on Channel 4 in the UK.
Butler starred with Rachel Weisz in Tennessee Williams' play Suddenly Last Summer in 1999. He took on a variety of roles. After playing an alcoholic playboy on the radio, he starred in Danger with Andie MacDowell and Adrian Brody, playing a war photojournalist.
The year 2000 is very important for Jared Butler. He first starred in the modern version of Baron Dracula in "The Legend of Evil", and then starred in the TV mini-TV launched by the "Legend of Evil" production team. Movie Attila the Hun. He won the Scottish Film Spirit Award in 2001.
His most recent credits include Tomb Raider: Rising with Angelina Jolie and Timeline with Paul Walker. Later, he will star in the movie The Game of Their Lives, adapted from a true story, playing the role of the captain who led the US football team to defeat the British team in the World Cup in 1950.
Emmy Rossum (played as Christine)
Emmy Rossum joined the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus at the Lincoln Music Center at the age of seven to receive music and acting training . In the next five years, Rosen collaborated with world-renowned singers such as tenor Domingo and others, performing twenty operas in five languages. She performs several times a week at the Metropolitan Opera, including La Bohème, Turandot, Pagliacci, Hansel and Gretel, among others. Rosen performed Berlioz's Faust in 1997 at Carnegie Hall.
Emmy Rossum made her television debut at the age of eleven. She joined the long-standing soap opera As the World Turns (Meg Ryan was also a cast member), and later guest-starred in The Lawyer and The Lawyer.
Because she studied acting in various languages ??at the Metropolitan Opera, she played the young Hepburn in the TV movie Audrey Hepburn and received critical acclaim.
In January 2000, when Rosen was 13 years old, she made her film debut as the Appalachian orphan eladis Slocumb in Songcatcher. The film entered competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance. . Rosen's singing voice and her singing of Scottish-Irish folk music in the film are a major focus of the film. Her acting skills also won her the Independent Spirit Award in the Newcomer Performance Award. After country singer Dolly Parton saw the unreleased version of the movie, she was inspired to write the song "When Love is New", a mother-daughter duet, and sang it with Rosen, which was included in the movie's soundtrack.
In 2000, the American "Variety" magazine named Amy Rosen one of the "Ten Most Promising Newcomers." Her most recent works include After Tomorrow, Mystic River. The New York Times Magazine considered her acting skills "astonishing" and named her "the most outstanding acting talent" in 2003. She was also one of the "six actors you can't miss this fall (or even long after)".
Rosen was born in New York in 1986. He attended Spence School before 1996 and then began to study at home. In addition to hiring a tutor, she also took courses in the Education for Gifted Youth (EPGY) program offered by Stanford University and the Center for Performing Arts Development (CTD) at Northwestern University, and is currently studying at Columbia University.
Patrick Wilson (playing Raul Shani)
Patrick Wilson is one of the hottest actors in recent years, because of his gold-nominated performance in the HBO homemade film Angels in America ball award. This Golden Globe Award-winning miniseries is a star-studded ensemble, starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, etc. Wilson later starred in Thirteen Days of Siege: The Battle of the Alamo alongside Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton.
Wilson has been nominated for the Tony Award for two consecutive years for his starring role in the Broadway musical Oklahoma. Previously, he starred in the stripper musical and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor.
New York audiences noticed Wilson because he starred in Off-Broadway's The Big Light, which won him a Drama Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Drama Critics Circle Award. He also won another Drama Critics Circle Award for the wonderful rhythm of his subsequent starring role.
Wilson was born in Virginia but grew up in Florida. His mother is a singer and voice teacher, and his father is a television anchor. He also sings and composes songs.
Miranda Richardson (playing Miss Grey)
Richardson's superb acting skills in Dancing with a Stranger shocked people. Hanged woman. Later works proved that her acting skills have become more perfect. The New York Film Critics Association considered her outstanding performance in "In Troubled Times", "Love in April" and "Fire Lover" and named her the best supporting actress. She also won a Golden Globe Award for Love in April and was nominated for an Academy Award for Love in Fire. She was nominated for an Academy Award again in 1995 for her role as Mrs. Eliot in The Poet and His Lover.
Her other recent works include The Hours, David Cronenberg's Spider-Man, Sleepy Hollow, Fallen Angels, the animated film Rooster, etc. Previous credits include A Voice from Above, Robert Altman's Kansas City, and Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.
Miranda Richardson also has many television credits, including the HBO homemade film Fatherland, which was shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award. She received professional training at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School and has appeared in many stage productions.
Mini Dover (played as Carlotta)
Mini Dover became famous because she starred with Chris O'Donnell in Fate is You, and then she became famous in the heart. She played Matt Damon's girlfriend in Catcher, for which she was nominated for an Oscar and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In March 1998, Zhuo Fu won the ShoWest Award for Rising Star Actress.
Minniedroff has chosen quite a diverse range of roles. Her works include GoldenEye in the 007 film series, Who Belongs, which helps David Ducheff overcome the pain of losing his wife, the black comedy Alternative Killer, and the adaptation of Oscar Wilde. He wrote a script about the mismatched lover, voiced the heroine of the Disney cartoon Tarzan, and starred in the independent film The Party.
Her other works include Robbery Girl, True Love, Spicy Princess, and Four Brothers.
The British actor is also a singer-songwriter and released his first album in September this year.
"Film Score"
Andrew Roy Webber and his scoring partners swept the major awards for The Phantom of the Opera. Schumaker said The Phantom of the Opera has great songs, elegant melodies, and Charles Hart's lyrics are captivating.
"This music is moving and powerful," added Jared Butler. "I have listened to it many times, and there is never a time when I am not moved."
However, the difficulty of these songs is also very high. "I have a training background from the Metropolitan Theater Company in Wake Up," said Emmy Rossum. "Otherwise I would never be able to sing."
Because of his abundant funds, Roy Weber had the opportunity to produce an orchestral version of the soundtrack, and he could also write and compose new songs. This isn't unfamiliar territory for Weber either, as he also worked as a film scorer in his early days.
Loy Webber has recruited his old partner Nigel Wright and music director Simon Lee. The former has been working with Roy Webber for more than fifteen years. Madonna's "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was produced by the two of them. hand. Wright also said, "We have all been looking forward to the movie version of The Phantom of the Opera for many years. This is our chance to show off our talents!"
In order to find the most suitable candidate, Simon Lee joined the work seven months before the filming of the movie started. ranks, training all principal actors to ensure their performances can meet Roy Webber's high standards. Simon Lee believes that he is an important promoter for each actor to maximize their singing skills, especially the Phantom. He said, "Jared has not been trained in musical theater, but he has performed in an orchestra. He has proven our work results last year, I'm very proud of how much progress he has made."
The soundtrack for The Phantom of the Opera is mostly played by a twenty-eight-piece orchestra. However, sometimes in order to describe more dramatic plots, Roy Webb insisted on having a symphony orchestra perform.
In order to live up to the reputation of the original musical, the soundtrack for the film version was composed by Roy Webb after watching Joe Schumaker's first cut of the film and then working with the orchestra to evaluate whether it should be re-performed and re-recorded. Record music and even re-score the soundtrack. Roy Webber rearranged most of the score, and added fifteen minutes of new music to describe the Phantom's childhood, Christine's carriage ride to her father's grave, and Raul's return to the cemetery. "When I saw the scene where Raul goes to the cemetery," Loyweber recalled, "I immediately thought it needed to be recomposed because it echoed Raul's story at the beginning of the film."
Aspects of Love, 1989
Many people think that the little-known "Aspects of Love" is Weber's most mature work. This drama is undoubtedly the one that he spent the most time on and lasted the longest time. Because he always wanted to write a touching love drama, Weber had already started writing "A View of Love" in 1983. However, in 1986, he took over his wife Sarah Brightman's "Phantom of the Opera" and used several "Love's" songs together. It was not until after the performance of "Phantom of the Opera" that Weber had time to complete "View of Love".
"Annie" Annie
The theme of this musical is taken from the comic book "Orphan Annie" in the 1920s. It tells the story of a girl named Annie who escaped from an orphanage and was adopted. . It has been made into movies several times.
Les Miserables
Based on Hugo's novel of the same name. It was criticized at first, but since then, the play has been performed in more than ten countries in all major states, making it a rare success in recent years.
"Evita" Evita
"Evita" is Webb's early collaboration with Tim Rice. It tells the story of Eva Peron from a country girl to a famous actress to the first lady of Argentina. experience.
"Rent"
This is a relatively new musical written in 1995.
It is adapted by Jonathan Larson based on opera master Pasini (Puccini) La Boheme.
Phantom of the Opera, 1986
Also translated as "The Phantom of the Opera". This play can be said to be another of Weber's musicals with global influence after "Cats". In 1988, "The Phantom of the Opera" was performed in New York. In the same year, the Japanese version of "The Phantom of the Opera" was performed in Tokyo.
Song and Dance, 1982
The King and I
Flower Drum Song
"Jeeves"/By Jeeves
"Ma Orchid", 1960
A classic play of China's domestic fairy tale musicals.
Cats, 1981
Beauty and the Beast, 1994
Oklahoma
The Pirates Of Perzance
The Beautiful Game
A Chorus Line
Sunset Boulevard "Sunset Boulevard"
"Jesus Christ Superstar"
"Whistle Down the Wind", 1998
"Chess"
Miss Saigon
Starlight Express
Show Boat
The Sound of Music
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", 1968
The play is the result of Webber's first collaboration with lyricist Tim Rice, and it is also the result of the young Weber and Tim Rice's first success in the musical theater industry. For many years, the play remained a favorite on school stages from North America to Australia.
Chicago
Kiss of a Spider Woman