Madison Goyette Period 7 5/31/2016 Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 in Kensington, London, England. His mother was a violinist and pianist and his father was a composer. He learned how to play the piano, violin and French horn and started writing his own music when he was 6 years old. Lloyd Webber would often put on productions with his younger brother, Jullian, a renowned cellist. His first work of six short pieces titled The Toy Theatre Suite was published when he was only 9. He liked to stage musical productions with his brother and aunt in a toy theatre that he set up at home and idolized Richard Rodgers who composed Oklahoma, The King and I and South Pacific. South Pacific was Lloyd Webber’s favorite of Rodgers’ works. …show more content…
Phantom of the Opera broke Cats’ record of 18 year Broadway run. It is considered to be one of his most accomplished musicals. He wrote the play based on an old French novel, Le Fantome de l’Opera, by Gaston Leroux about a beautiful soprano and her relationship to the Phantom, a disfigured musical genius. The shows opening was the highest grossing entertainment event of all time making 3.3 billion and with 80 million in attendance. Lloyd Webber was so nervous that he didn’t attend the opening show. In 1986, Rice and Lloyd Webber reunited to create Cricket for Queen Elizabeth’s 60th birthday. Then in 1989, he wrote Aspects of Love, musical based on story of David Garnett. In the show there was a shift of emphasis towards quieter more intimate theatrical experience, less elaborate, more akin to chamber work. Webber says that he feels that aspects will be one of his works that stands the test of time. Lloyd Webber has been referred to as “the most commercially successful composer in
In 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber, transformed the original The Phantom of the Opera novel (written in 1911 by Gaston Leroux) into a dialogic, emotional masterpiece. The prologue starts at the end of the story, in an auction in the Paris Opera House, in 1905. Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny is buying a papier-mâché music box,
The reporting party is (RP) Ophelia Larose the grandmother of the foster child Aniyah Blake. The RP stated she and the biological mother had a visit with Aniyah on 6/19/15. The RP the foster father (Mark Cannon) did not bring food or diapers for the visit. When foster father was asked about the missing items the foster father replied "the FFA did not provide me with them when they dropped Aniyah off." The RP stated the child appeared very hungry and the bio mother provided the child with a bottle and diapers. The foster child had a diaper rash according to the RP. The RP got the impression the foster father did not want to participate in the
Blake Gregg: schedule change - I misunderstood Blake when I asked him how many days a week would he like to work. I thought he only wanted to work 2 days a week but he meant he wants off 2 days a week. He picked up more days with me; the scheduled changed a little. I left you a copy of the schedule at your computer desk. Now I am off to start the next
The Phantom of the Opera started out as a book written by Gaston Leroux, published January 8th in 1910 (Haining, 1). There have been several adaptations since then, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. The other adaptations were Das Phantom der Opera, which is also known as Das Gespent im Opernhaus produced during 1916 in Germany as a silent drama film, this is known as a lost film due to no known copies existing at this time. A silent drama horror was produced on November 15th, 1925, a drama thriller was produced during August 27th in 1943, a horror film was produced June 25th during 1962, and an indie thriller, called Phantom of the Paradise was adapted from Phantom of the Opera and then produced in October 31st of 1974.
The Phantom of the Opera is horror and romantic story about two boys fighting over one girl. The story begins when a ghost sends letters from time to time to notify Madam Giry and the managers about what he wants. Also, the Ghost who takes Christine for a while and teaches her lessons. Furthermore, The Phantom fights with Raoul on Christine and he gives his only love to Raoul because he notices Christine, and Raoul love each other, and disappeared to enjoy their happiness. In 2004, Joel Schumacher released the movie musical of Andrew Lloyd Webber also called The Phantom of the
In his own time, however, Leroux was a celebrated journalist, an international adventurer, and one of the most popular authors of mysteries and dark thrillers in the entire world, as well as a gambler. It was a life that might easily have come out of a novel, had it not all been true. His novel The Phantom of the Opera and its Broadway adaptation is by far his most famous piece of work. The play can be seen in many countries around the world still
1. Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer known for famous musical theatre hits such as Cats, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera. In the early years, he was born on March 22, 1948 in London. Many say that he was born with musical blood going through his veins, his father is the director of the London College of Music, his mother was a piano teacher and his younger brother (Julian) was a cellist. He started playing the piano and violin at the age of three, then he started playing the French Horn and began to write his own music at the age of six. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s childhood dream was to become England’s Chief inspector of ancient monuments, at 1965 he entered Westminster school as a queens scholar and began learning history at Magdalen College in Oxford. His best friend led him to another direction to study at the royal college of
Phantom of the Opera has been around for longer than I can recall, being the musical to talk about among my family as something grand. When I was the age of only fourteen I received the honor of performing the musical for the first time, although I had to learn a great deal about the script for that performance, the history behind The Phantom of the Opera is not clear to me. So I started my research their tied to the original piece. Phantom of the opera.com gave a timeline that had the background, explaining that the original piece was published in 1911 by Gaston Leroux. (Timeline) The author was inspired by a trip to the Paris opera house, explaining that below the Paris opera house is a lake, and that he recalled an accident in which the chandelier had fallen some years earlier. (Hall, P.16) Sparking Gaston Leroux to make the book. The book from this point was given to the hands of a movie producer making a silent film in November 1925. (The Phantom of the Opera (1925))
Gaston Leroux 's famed novel The Phantom of the Opera revolves around the mystery of the phantom, who haunts the Paris Opera House. Leroux has set out to prove that the opera ghost really exists. The narrative follows a follows a sinuous triangular love affair between three major characters: The opera ghost; Erik, Christine Daae and Raoul.
This story would later be compiled into a full volume and translated a year later, and known as “The Phantom of The Opera.” It was uniquely written for my time, as it was based on an event that I covered as a journalist, where members of a revolt were being kept as prisoners in the sewers under a famous opera house, but exaggerated and made into a work of fiction. The book has been adapted many times, most notably the 1925 silent film, the 1986 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the less than stellar 2004 movie made by Joel Schumacher. The musical is still running even to this
William Blake was an artist and poet. He was born in England in 1757. He unlike any other poet was not educated in religion and literature, and instead he was sent to drawing school. He love writing poetry so when he died at age seventy he died doing what he loved. Before he was a poet he worked as an apprentice to engraver who carved pictures into plates then the were use for printing.
Gaston Leroux wrote a fictional novel entitled The Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leroux first published this fictional novel in 1910, but the novel was copyrighted in 1998. “Gaston Leroux, (born May 6, 1868, Paris, Fr.—died April 15/16, 1927, Nice), French novelist, best known for his Le Fantôme de l’opéra (1910; The Phantom of the Opera), which later became famous in various film and stage renditions” (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007). “The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz” (Wikipedia, 2017). The Phantom of the Opera is written about
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical that’s primarily drama based. The opening scene to the movie begins with the raising of a Chandelier in the Opera Populaire in 1919, the present day as it flashbacks to 1870. The raising of the exquisite chandelier illuminates the dull opera house, rids the seats and the golden statues of cobwebs, and brings the opera house back to life. In 1870, when we first meet Christine Daaé played by Emmy Rossum. Christine, a quiet choir girl is practicing her ballet for Hannibal by Chalumeau.
Before Phantom appeared on Broadway, it started as a novel. Gaston Leroux wrote the novel in 1910. After the novel, it turned into a movie and then became the musical that people now know and love. Phantom first took the stage on January 26, 1988. According to Kelso, J. (2013), “The show has been performed in 13 different languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Castilian, Hungarian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, and Mexican Spanish.” Andrew Lloyd Weber was the composer of Phantom of the Opera. He has won numerous awards for his compositions.