It won't be easy, you'll think it strange...when we try to explain why this episode took sooooo long to edit. We recorded over THREE HOURS of commentary on Alan Parker's two-hour-20-minute film adaptation of EVITA, starring Anthony's first idol at three years old, Madonna. But don't cry for us, dear listeners, the truth is we never left you, and we've whittled this down to a (barely) reasonable hour and 48 minutes. Hear what we thought of the third and final full-length original show by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, featuring the songs "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," "Buenos Aires," and "Another Suitcase In Another Hall."
Fresh off of seeing Madonna's Celebration Tour, Anthony sits down with Adam to talk about the concert, Anthony's impressions of Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger, and the news that the show is coming to Broadway.
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In this episode, find out how Andrew Lloyd Webber's unfulfilled dream of working with Hal Prince on Jesus Christ Superstar finally came to fruition on Evita. The opera, based on the life of Argentinian First Lady Eva Peron, was Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's last major collaboration. Hear about the show's creation, a story of passion, lies, and PR that seems to involve everyone from Ann-Margret to Liza with a Z. Plus, Adam and Anthony discuss the new productions of Sunset Boulevard and whether we're in for another case of intercontinental dueling Normas.
It's time signatures gone wild when Adam and Anthony recap their viewing of the 1973 movie adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, which includes such numbers as "What's the Buzz?" "Everything's Alright," "Gethsemane," and this podcast's namesake, "I Don't Know How to Love Him." Find out what they love, what they don't love, and what they don't know how to love about this rock opera retelling of the Passion.
"I’ll take Musicals about Martyrs for $200, Mayim." After Adam and Anthony play some Andrew Lloyd Webber Jeopardy, they get into the the history of Loyd Webber and Tim Rice’s "Jesus Christ Superstar." Find out what Bette Midler, Hal Prince, grand rights, and the 2021 insurrection on the Capitol have to do with it. The hosts also talk about the early closure of "Aspects of Love," an upcoming ballroom reimagining of "Cats," Andrew Lloyd Webber's rollerskating ancestry, and what ALW songs are giving them life this week.
Like brothers who’ve been separated by jealousy, betrayal, and famine, Adam and Anthony are finally reunited to talk about the 1999 video of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starring Donny Osmond and Maria Friedman (with a special guest appearance by the one and only Joan Collins). Join them as they follow Joseph from his banner Canaan days to landing in prison to becoming the governor of Egypt, and find out what they love, what they don’t love, and what they don’t know how to love about the show that started it all for Andrew Lloyd Webber.
In their debut episode, Adam and Anthony go way, way back many decades ago to 1968, when Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote his first musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (with lyricist Tim Rice), which Anthony appeared in a few decades later, in the show's North American tour with Donny Osmond. They get so deep into the history that they decide to save their recap of the 1999 video for the next episode. They also cover some recent Lloyd Webber news, including the closing of The Phantom of the Opera and Bad Cinderella on Broadway, and talk about what Andrew Lloyd Webber songs are giving them life this week.
When it comes to Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of Cats and Phantom of the Opera, it’s complicated for friends and musical theater lovers Adam Hibma and Anthony Ruth. Over the course of this limited series, the two laugh, cry, hiss, scratch, and crash chandeliers as they take a deep look at six different Andrew Lloyd Webber shows.
Anthony, who performed in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond in the 90s, has a soft spot for Andrew's work. But Adam, a voice major in college who only tolerates Lloyd Webber when sung by Streisand, wonders what in the Heaviside Layer Anthony's gotten him into. Find out what they love, what they don't love - and what they don't know how to love - about the man the New York Times called the most commercially successful composer in history. And follow the melodrama on Instagram at @howtolovehimpod.