I really enjoyed this DVD, it has songs from Andrew LLoyd Webbers Musicals. The selection was slightly different from the norm, but that was good, because almost all the songs were my favorites. The British company sang very well. I thought the Chinese female singer needed to project her voice a bit more. I find Chinese who sing Western operas, are not able to project their voices while singing. I loved the DVD, and have watched it several times since receiving the DVD about two months ago. Elaine Paige sang quite a few arias,she was in good singing form. I rated this DVD with five stars, would have given more stars if they were available.
July 14, 2008 |  | An Excellent Performance video |  |
This is indeed an Excellent performance video of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The best thing i liked about this video is that almost all orchestra is chineese. A good collectors video.
June 14, 2008Surely, this concert is a big advance into unknown territory China of millions of funs greeted their favourite personally was.
A very practical approach to present the most of hits live on stage as a set Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway Favorites Collection (Cats / Jesus Christ Superstar / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat / The Royal Albert Hall Celebration) is really more exiting.
March 1, 2008I was very disappointed with this purchase - the singing was very amateur - didn't sound professional at all.
January 21, 2008Loud, raucous, barren, forced, didn't finish it. As far as I got it seemed like they just picked the noisiest Lloyd Webber tunes and pranced and shouted them. It all started off with a glowing cross and JC Superstar. It was a drag. Sondheim is a mediocre hack (his one song is "Send in the clowns"), but at least he's quiet. Never did like Bway, though I grew up on OBC albums. Just some songwriters (Rodgers & Hart, Porter, Berlin, Gershwin without his dreadful brother Ira, a little Jule Styne but not much, he was mostly Tin Pan Alley and movies anyway until I think "High button shoes"). Bway shows are long and creaky and back-breakingly boring. And with the exceptions I mentioned, it's all children's music anyway. Sondheim is nothing; ALW does/did have some talent. But it's all children's music. Some pretty or catchy tunes if you're lucky, but mostly blah to terrible. With the exceptions I mentioned. A few (like Kern or Hoagy Carmichael or Frank Loesser) got off some good tunes, but not enough to qualify them for the big time. Loesser started out as strictly a lyricist, then with "Praise the lord and pass the ammunition" (hardly a gem, but a WWII hit, and he liked it) began writing his own music. But with only 3 hit shows (unless you count that awful "Most happy fella") and a few stray pop tunes, hardly a full canon. One last note. America did not invent the musical comedy. It just diluted it. About this ALW DVD. It is drab and loud and the one slow tune I heard ("I don't know how to love him") was sung with a very weak ineffectual voice. The voice that yelled Superstar and the song from Joseph wasn't weak and ineffectual though. Just colorless and LOUD! It reminded me of an aging Gruberova. "Roberto Devereaux." 2 females dressed like something out of "How to succeed in business..." YELLING Donizetti. Or Ethel Merman. At least she had some personality. So much shop talk about Bway. I hate it. Only 3 musicals I ever saw I did not hate were 2 by Rodgers and 1 by Coward. I saw the other ALW special (his 50th birthday), all rock and religion. But if I were tied to a pole and had to choose which to be subjected to, I would take the 50th birthday DVD. More musical, more colorful. But I hated and didn't finish it too.
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