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Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber UK Tour 1988
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Programme Cover & Tour Dates & Venues
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Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman was born in 1960. Her theatrical debut was at the age of thirteen in I And Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre. At sixteen she was a member of the Dance Group Pans People then at eighteen she joined Arlene Philips' Hot Gossip.
In 1981 Miss Brightman played in Cats at the New London Theatre as a member of the original cast. In 1982 she premiered Charles Strouse's opera for children Nightingale at the Buxton Festival. She repeated the role in London at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
Subsequently Miss Brightman appeared in The Pirates Of Penzance at the Drury Lane Theatre and performed Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song And Dance for BBC-TV.
In 1985 Miss Brightman premiered Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem in New York and London for which she was nominated as 'Best New Classical Artist' in the Grammy Awards. In the same year she also played the role of Valencienne in The Merry Widow for New Sadler's Wells Opera.
Miss Brightman premiered the role of Christine in The Phantom Of The Opera, which opened in October 1986, at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. She subsequently premiered the role when the show opened in New York in January 1988 for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
Miss Brightman has performed in the 1985 and 1987 Royal Variety Shows and is also a successful British recording artist with four top ten singles; / Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper (1978), Pie Jesu (1985), The Phantom Of The Opera (1986), All I Ask Of You (1986). She has had two No. 1 Albums; Requiem (Classical Charts 1985), The Phantom Of The Opera (1987), and has appeared on the cast albums of Nightingale (1982), and Song And Dance (1984). In early 1988, Miss Brightman completed a recording of folk songs by Benjamin Britten for the HMV Angel Label, and for MCA Records has played Carrie in the new recording of Carousel.
Miss Brightman is currently working on two albums to be released in 1989 followed by a television movie on the life of Jessie Matthews. She has just finished the recording of Grandpa by Howard Blake. Her recent live performances have included engagements with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Miss Brightman is married to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Programme Cover & Tour Dates & Venues
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1988
Sunday 23 October Bournemouth
Wednesday 2 November Nottingham
Thursday 3 November Croydon
Sunday 20 November Birmingham |
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Act 1
Jesus Christ Superstar Suite
Jesus Christ Superstar
High Flying Adored
Close Every Door
Any Dream Will Do
Tell Me On A Sunday Overture
Unexpected Song
Another Suitcase In
Another Hall
I Don't Know How To
Love Him
Capped Teeth and
Ceasar Salad
Evita interlude
Don't Cry For Me
Argentina |
Act 2
Jellicle
Ball
Mr
Mistoffelees
Memory
Hosanna
Pie
Jesu
Phantom
Overture
Think
of Me
All
I Ask Of You
Masquerade
Wishing
You Were Somehow Here
Music
Of The Night
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