Marti Webb: Tell Me On Sunday

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The Broadway production was nominated for multiple awards, including the Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Featured Actor (Christopher d’Amboise), Best costume Design (Willa Kim), Best Lighting Design (Jules Fisher), Best Choreography (Peter Martins), and Best Direction of a Musical (Richard Maltby Jr.); and the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Gregg Burge), Outstanding Choreography (Peter Martins), and Outstanding Music (Andrew Lloyd Webber). Bernadette Peters won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. Shortly after, on April 28, 1984, a special performance starring Sarah Brightman was filmed at the Palace Theatre and broadcast on TV. The performance was also released as an album by RCA. Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Tell Me on a Sunday West End revival,” Accessed via: https://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/tell-me-on-a-sunday-west-end-revival/ By March, 1980 the album of Tell Me on a Sunday had reached number 2 on the UK record charts, and the single “Take That Look Off Your Face” had reached number 3.The show toured the United Kingdom, beginning on 30 August 2010 at Northampton's Royal Theatre and continuing until autumn 2011. [12] The tour starred Claire Sweeney as 'the girl' and was directed by Tamara Harvey. The script was again updated for the 21st century, and 'the girl' was rewritten as originating from Liverpool, like Claire Sweeney herself. The song list stayed closer to the original, although a new finale was added, "Dreams Never Run on Time", itself a rewrite of the song "Somewhere, Someplace, Sometime" from the 2003 version. Lloyd Webber re-assembled many of the musicians who had contributed to his earlier Variations album, for which he arranged Paganini's caprice for his brother Julian Lloyd Webber's cello, including jazz multi-instrumentalist Barbara Thompson and her husband, drummer Jon Hiseman. Gary Moore engineered the 1987 digital transfer for the album's first release on compact disc. A cast album of Song and Dance featuring a live recording of Marti Webb was released by Polydor in 1982. The show toured the United Kingdom, beginning on 30 August 2010 at Northampton’s Royal Theatre and continuing until autumn 2011.[11] The tour starred Claire Sweeney as ‘the girl’ and was directed by Tamara Harvey. The script was again updated for the 21st century, and ‘the girl’ was rewritten as originating from Liverpool, like Claire Sweeney herself. The song list stayed closer to the original, although a new finale was added, “Dreams Never Run On Time”, itself a rewrite of the song “Somewhere, Someplace, Sometime” from the 2003 version.

The one-woman show was first performed at the Sydmonton Festival in September 1979 starring Marti Webb, who had been appearing in Evita as the alternate for Eva Perón.

Tell Me on a Sunday charts the romantic misadventures of a young English girl in New York in the heady days of the 1980s. Brimming with optimism, she seeks success and love. But as she weaves her way through the maze of the city and her own anxieties, frustrations and heartaches she begins to wonder whether she's been looking for love in all the wrong places. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s numerous awards include 7 TONYs, 3 Grammys, 7 Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, 2 Emmys and the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. Nurse noted the show had “an unmistakably Broadway tang and flavour,” and described Lloyd Webber’s score as “pointed, assured, and sometimes quite exciting.” Nurse also praised Marti Webb as “an engaging singer… with the sort of style that promises much for the future.”

The Phantom of the Opera(1986) Lyrics by Charles Hart Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe Book by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber Based on the novel by Gaston Leroux Vincent Terrace, Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012, 2d Ed, McFarland Inc (2013) Tell Me on a Sunday continues to be performed around the world, and in 2021 was toured around the UK starring Jodie Prenger. Citron, Stephen. Sondheim & Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical. New York, New York: Oxford University Press 2001. ISBN0-19-509601-0 pp. 262-63 Billed as a “concert for the theatre,” Song and Dance opened in the West End at the Palace Theatre starring Marti Webb in 1982. Cameron Macintosh served as producer, with direction by John Caird, choreography by Anthony Van Laast, scenic design by David Hersey, costume design by Robin Don, musical supervision by Harry Rabinowitz, orchestrations by Lloyd Webber, and sound design by Autograph. The dance portion featured Wayne Webb, with Linda-Mae Brewer, Jane Darling, Andrea Durant, Linda Gibbs, Paul Henry, Andy Norman, Sandy Strallen, and Paul Tomkinson.Performances taking place before June 21 st will be sold at half capacity in line with Government guidelines. Thereafter, performances may initially be sold at half capacity in case restrictions remain, although capacities may increase if not. Prevailing Government guidance on face coverings and distancing will be observed and enhanced cleaning routines will remain in place. Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved 22 September 2021. Fred Bronson, “Andrew Lloyd Webber: 25 Years of Broadway: The Musicals of Record: A Discography,” Billboard (Oct 19, 1996), p.18 A briefer 3:02 edit of the song is included on the album, however, a longer 3:29 version was released as the single.