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Nov 07, 2020

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

Memory
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Nov 07, 2020

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Nov 07, 2020

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

Nov 07, 2020

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

Back
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Nov 07, 2020

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

Close Relationship
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Nov 07, 2020

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

Nothing
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Nov 07, 2020

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

Girl
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Nov 07, 2020

I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

Got
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Nov 07, 2020

I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

Loved
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Nov 07, 2020

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.

Help
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Nov 07, 2020

In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

First Time
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Nov 07, 2020

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

Cinema
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Nov 07, 2020

We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).

Question
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Nov 07, 2020

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

Insurance
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Nov 07, 2020

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

Next
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Nov 07, 2020

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

Good Song
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Person
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Nov 07, 2020

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

Dark
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Nov 07, 2020

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

Failure
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Nov 07, 2020

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Random
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Nov 07, 2020

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.

Architecture
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Nov 07, 2020

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

Jesus Christ
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Nov 07, 2020

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

Little
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Nov 07, 2020

'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

Choose
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Nov 07, 2020

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

Going
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Nov 07, 2020

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

Keep
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Nov 07, 2020

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Back
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Nov 07, 2020

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

Back
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Nov 07, 2020

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Nov 07, 2020

I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

Long Time
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Nov 07, 2020

It's interesting that the wondrous 'Hamilton,' which I could not be more ecstatic about, has taken a long time to perfect to bring it to Broadway. And it wouldn't have been possible if it was developed in the commercial theatre from the get-go.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

Little
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Nov 07, 2020

I've often thought that we left the original 'Phantom' with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, 'Well, why not to do a sequel to it' at one point.

Done
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Nov 07, 2020

'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.

Nobody
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Nov 07, 2020

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

Nov 07, 2020

Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

Nov 07, 2020

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

Milk
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Nov 07, 2020

My wife says I can't remember if she has milk in coffee.

Politics
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Nov 07, 2020

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

Strong
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a very strong will.

Mean
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Nov 07, 2020

Mobiles mean people know where you are.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm wondering whether to have someone go around with my mobile to completely throw everybody off the scent. I could appear in weird places.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.

Sometimes
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Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

Nov 07, 2020

You can't just sort of come with, say, 'Yesterday,' or 'A Hard Day's Night,' and it be in the wrong place in the wrong show, and expect the song to work theatrically.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

Nov 07, 2020

'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.

Nov 07, 2020

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Always
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Nov 07, 2020

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

Nov 07, 2020

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

Classic
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Nov 07, 2020

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

Nothing
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Nov 07, 2020

The fact is that 'The Wizard Of Oz' has never really worked in the theatre. The film has one or two holes where, in the theatre, you need a song. For example, there's nothing for either of the two witches to sing.

Performer
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Nov 07, 2020

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

Borne
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Nov 07, 2020

Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.

Nov 07, 2020

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

Mine
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Nov 07, 2020

The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

It never occurred to me that 'Phantom of the Opera' was the sort of subject that I'd want to do, because I just thought it was something that would be a bit jokey. 'Til I read the book.

Opera
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Nov 07, 2020

What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.

Getting
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Nov 07, 2020

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

Hope
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Nov 07, 2020

I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.

Nov 07, 2020

We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

Since 'School of Rock' opened, for the first time in my career, ever, really, I've had a lot of projects offered to me. It's extraordinary. Normally, I've initiated them all myself.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

Cancer
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Nov 07, 2020

After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I got known as the school swot, which wasn't me at all.

Said
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Nov 07, 2020

I was about 10, and I was supposed to be playing the piano at the school concert, and I got up in front of the whole school and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm changing the agenda. I want to play some songs I've written.'

People
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Nov 07, 2020

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

Lose
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Nov 07, 2020

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

Country
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!

Amazing
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Nov 07, 2020

It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'

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