By Samuel Negin
Andrew Lloyd Webber has not had much love on Broadway for his new works. Though his older shows, including Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat all did well on Broadway (to say nothing about the 18 year long run of Cats and the 24-years-and-still-going Phantom of the Opera) and are frequently produced in community theaters across the country, his last three new shows (By Jeeves, Bombay Dreams, and The Woman in White) have only lasted a couple of months each in their Broadway debuts and were financial flops. And then there was Love Never Dies, the Phantom of the Opera sequel whose impending transfer from the West End to Broadway was much buzzed about but, ultimately, never materialized.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber has not had much love on Broadway for his new works. Though his older shows, including Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat all did well on Broadway (to say nothing about the 18 year long run of Cats and the 24-years-and-still-going Phantom of the Opera) and are frequently produced in community theaters across the country, his last three new shows (By Jeeves, Bombay Dreams, and The Woman in White) have only lasted a couple of months each in their Broadway debuts and were financial flops. And then there was Love Never Dies, the Phantom of the Opera sequel whose impending transfer from the West End to Broadway was much buzzed about but, ultimately, never materialized.
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- 2/29/2012
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
Obie winner Donna Lynne Champlin, who starred in the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, as well as James Joyce's The Dead, By Jeeves and Hollywood Arms, will perform her one-woman show, Finishing the Hat, as a benefit for the Drama Desk Award-winning, off-Broadway theatre company, Transport Group, on Monday, May 11, at 7:00pm, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42 Street, at Ninth Avenue.
- 5/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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