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Whistling in the Wind

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Subject: Whistling in the Wind
From: "David Lancaster" <d.lancaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:06:59 GMT
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Hi all

This is slightly off topic, so advance apologies, but a colleague has 
just handed me a review of Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest effort 
entitled 'Whistle Down the Wind' (borrowed from the 1961 
Bryan Forbes film) and it is possibly the worst slating I've 
ever read.

Since bandrooms and bandstands will no doubt soon be reverberating to 
the sounds of this masterpiece I really wanted to share it with 
you...

The reviewer for the Telegraph (which I don't normally read, you 
understand) is one Susannah Clapp, to whom all writs should 
be served.  The first paragraph reads:

"Whistle Down the Wind is terrible.  It is not simply that the music 
is a stale mishmash with its theme tune a weedy whisper.  It is not 
merely that the lyrics are entirely pedestrian.  It is not only that 
it unleashes onto the stage as a main part of the action a horde of 
ingratiating children.  Worst of all is the self-regard, 
masquerading as piety, the sugariness pretending to be compassion.  
The centre of this show is rotten and it is smug".

One for the summer programme, perhaps, or that entertainments contest 
in the autumn...

David


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