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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948-, British theatrical composer. A member of a successful musical family, he began composing musicals as a teenager; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) was an early work done in collaboration with the lyricist Tim Rice. Lloyd Webber's spectacular string of... Read more |
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Evita
Evita (1979). The musical about the factual Eva Peron, from her humble beginnings to her marriage to the Argentine dictator Juan Peron to her early death, was a London hit before opening at the Broadway Theatre for a run of 1,567 performances, becoming the longest‐running foreign musical... Read more |
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Tim Rice
Rice, Tim 1944- (Sir Tim Rice)PERSONALFull name, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice; born November 10, 1944, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England; son of Hugh Gordon and Joan Odette (maiden name, Bawden) Rice; brother of Jonathan "Jo" Rice (a writer); married Jane Artereta McIntosh, August 19, 1974;... Read more |
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Thomas Dartmouth Rice
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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (1994), a musical fantasy by Linda Woolverton (book), Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman, Tim Rice (lyrics). [Palace Theatre, still running.] The timeless tale of an arrogant prince ( Terrence Mann) turned into a beast and saved by the love of a beauty ( Susan Egan) had... Read more |
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Aida
Aida (2000), a musical play by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, David Henry Hwang (book), Elton John (music), Tim Rice (lyrics). [Palace Theatre, still running.] Only the basic story of Verdi's celebrated opera is retained in this soft‐rock version of the tragic romance between the... Read more |
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I Rice Pereira
I. Rice Pereira (Irene Rice Pereira) , 1907-71, American painter, b. Chelsea, Mass. In 1935, Pereira helped found the Federal Art Project design laboratory and taught there for several years. Her mature painting style is characterized by the play of light and space through open, framelike forms... Read more |
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rice
rice cereal grain ( Oryza sativa ) of the grass family (Graminae), probably native to the deltas of the great Asian rivers—the Ganges, the Chang (Yangtze), and the Tigris and Euphrates. The plant is an annual, from 2 to 6 ft (61-183 cm) tall, with a round, jointed stem; long, pointed... Read more |
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wild rice
wild rice tall aquatic plant ( Zizania aquatica ) of the family Gramineae ( grass family), of a genus separate from common rice ( Oryza ). Wild rice (called also Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats) is a hardy annual with broad blades, reedy stems, and large terminal panicles. It grows best... Read more |
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A MATURE MADONNA'S WELL-DONE `EVITA' : SINGER'S PASSION, AND SOME VOCAL...
...Go ahead, cry for Madonna...version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical...dare sing `Don't Cry for Me...fiction blend in Tim Rice's lyrics and Lloyd ... |
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IT WAS A NIGHT OF LEGENDS BOWL'S LATEST HALL OF FAME HONOREES GIVE SOMETHING...
...performance of ``Don't Cry for Me, Argentina...few notes to the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice tune, LuPone...government doesn't want Americans...numbers, including ... |
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Comedy's rant'n'roll hero varies his routine
...ovations and reviews that called...who can't read music...makes people cry, which all...said: "Why don't they get...as the new Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim ... |
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PRINCIPALS CARRY THE TORCH FOR ARTPARK'S PRODUCTION OF 'EVITA'
...audiences who don't know much about either of them get a...It is one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's most effective...the Webber-Tim Rice team that "exposes...reprises of ... |
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EVITAS PAST AND PRESENT
...adaptation of the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. But...best of the Rice-Webber collaborations...mixed results. Reviews of the film...still haven't made it to...High" ... |