Unmasked. Эндрю Ллойд Уэббер

      

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      © Andrew Lloyd Webber 2018

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      Excerpts from ‘That’s My Story’ – Lyrics by Tim Rice, published by EMI Music Publishing Mills Music Limited and reproduced with the kind permission of Sir Tim Rice. Excerpts from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Lyrics by Tim Rice © The Really Useful Group Limited. Excerpts from ‘Come Back Richard Your Country Needs You’ – Lyrics by Tim Rice, published by Novello and Company Ltd and reproduced with the kind permission of Sir Tim Rice. Excerpts from Jesus Christ Superstar – Lyrics by Tim Rice © The Really Useful Group Limited. Excerpts from Evita – Lyrics by Tim Rice © Evita Music Limited/Universal. Extracts taken from ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’, The Poems of T.S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems and ‘The Naming of Cats’, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot © Set Copyrights Ltd and reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber. Excerpts from Aspects of Love – Lyrics by Don Black & Charles Hart © The Really Useful Group Limited. Excerpts from The Phantom of the Opera – Lyrics by Charles Hart, Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe © The Really Useful Group Limited.

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      Source ISBN 9780008237592

       Ebook Edition © March 2018 ISBN: 9780008237622

       Version 2018-07-09

      For my fabulously un-PC Auntie Vi, most of whose

       sayings I could not possibly share in 2018.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Prologue

       Overture and Beginners

       1. Perseus & Co.

       2. Some Enchanted Ruin

       3. Auntie Vi

       4. A Whiter Shade of Something That Didn’t Taste Very Nice in the First Place

       5. “Mr Lloyd Webber, Do You Like Cats?”

       6. Enter Timothy Miles Bindon Rice

       7. Teenage Operas, Pop Cantatas

       8. Elvis with Mellotron and Tambourines

       9. Any Dream Won’t Do

       10. “Did Judas Iscariot Have God on His Side?”

       11. Love Changes Everything, But . . .

       12. JCS Meets RSO

       13. Jesus Goes to Broadway

       14. A Bad Case of the Edward Woodwards

       15. Suddenly There’s a Valet

       16. Syd

       17. Driverless Juggernauts Hurtling Down a Hill

       18. Eva and Juan

       19. The Long Hot Summer and the Sound of a Paraguayan Harp

       20. The Song that Cleared the Dance Floors

       21. Imogen and Niccolò

       22. Variations

       23. Really Useful

       24. Tell Me on a Sunday

       25. “This Artfully Produced Monument to Human Indecency”

       26. Shaddap and Take That Look Off Your Face

       27. Mr Mackintosh

       28. “All the Characters Must Be Cats”

       29. Growltiger’s Last Stand