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Monday, August 28, 2006

Somebody Stop Him

From Playbill.com:

The Daily Mail reported Andrew Lloyd Webber plans to write a musical based on the Russian novel, "The Master and Margarita," Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastical tale of the Devil, a talking cat, Christ and Pontius Pilate, a tormented writer named Master and a girlfriend named Margarita, who becomes a witch...

Lloyd Webber entered the following entry in his blog Aug. 25: "After six months of agonising about what I should write next I am going to attempt the impossible. I am going to see if I can turn Mikhail Bulgakov's extraordinary novel 'The Master and Margarita' into a stage musical or, more probably, an opera...

I am very aware that this will be almost certainly the most ambitious undertaking I have ever embarked upon. It will therefore almost certainly falter and will depend on who my collaborators are..."


Yes, and on whether Lord Webber can find a sense of humor. And some irony.

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3 comments:

Alison Croggon said...

Aaargh!!!! He can't Webberise that book!

Anonymous said...

The question is, what's worse: musical or opera? At least we can be thankful that he hasn't chosen Heat of a Dog...

Anonymous said...

Er, I mean "Heart of a Dog."