Continuing on from the style of Broadway musicals with Lea Salonga (who has sung many of these songs by the way), this week’s feature is on a British composer named Andrew Lloyd Webber. He’s famous for writing musicals such as The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Evita. More recently, he wrote a musical adaptation of School of Rock, and a new version of Cinderella (premiering in London this summer!).
Some of his classics:
– “Memory” from Cats (based on T.S. Eliot’s book of cat poems)
– “Any Dream Will Do” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (based on the Bible character Joseph)
– “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” from Evita (featured Madonna, based on the story of female Argentinian leader and actress Eva Perón)
– “The Music of the Night” in the Phantom’s underground home and “All I Ask of You” from The Phantom of the Opera (feature Sarah Brightman, Webber’s second wife)
– “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar (controversial)
– “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from Sunset Boulevard