Musical Theatre and Songwriting
The death of Lionel Bart, best known for Oliver!, was widely mourned. The major new production in London's West End this year was Mamma Mia!, with book by Catherine Johnson and songs by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson; the musical went on to be a major stage hit worldwide and eventually a film. The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors established its new fellowship, the first recipient being Martin Gore.
Read more about this topic: 1999 In British Music
Famous quotes containing the words musical and/or theatre:
“There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader’s boat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)