MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Concept Album, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Javert
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Why have production costs risen: marketing, demand for high tech wizardry unions. Ticket prices rise (2014: of hedwig and the angry inch) Fewer new productions get mounted (32 in 1975, 19 in 1985: audiences decline (6 million in 1975 to 4. 6 million in 1985, corporations become producers replacing one-man producers. Cameron mackintosh: british entreprenuer behind cats, les mis, phantom, miss saigon the success of these 4 shows made mackintosh the most powerful. Sights and stunts: cats the stage revolved and so did a section of the theatre seats. British invasion: mackintosh, andrew lloyd webber (jesus christ superstar, joseph and the. Technicolour dream coat, evita, cats, starlight express, phantom, This term was coined in 1980s when the new york times used it to describe a kind of broadway show that rose to prominence that decade and remains force on broadway today. Spectacle show: blockbuster show, disney musical, movical, mcmusical.
