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:
“Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?””
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
Even so, or with much more contempt, men’s eyes
Did scowl on gentle Richard.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)