Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Mr Music, back to his old haunts
smh.com.au: "It's astonishing how much and how many people dislike Andrew Lloyd Webber. A musical friend, when I told him I was interviewing the king of musicals, snapped 'Could you shoot him for me?' That seems a lot of hostility to direct at anyone on aesthetic grounds, but it's not unusual; for whatever reason, anti-Lloyd Webberites take far more offence at the rampant populism of Phantom Of The Opera, the glitz of Starlight Express and the bombast of Sunset Boulevard than they would at unabashed trash."
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This article neglects to mention that part of the reason why ALW is so damn wealthy is that he is not just a composer collecting royalities, but through his producing organization "Really Usefull Group" he produces his own work, in addition to the work of many other composers in Europe. Similar to the Shuberts, he also happens to be a big real estate mogul, owning most of the theatres that present his work.
-Rico.
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