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| Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? | |
| Posted by: TheBroadwayMaven (DavidBenkof@gmail.com) 09:39 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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| From today's Broadway Maven Weekly Blast: LAST BLAST: The “U” in the number “Today 4 U” from Rent is, wait for it, Andrew Lloyd Webber. The song is about how a dog named “Evita” plunges to her death (from a balcony, get it?) after percussion music by Rent character Angel (the show’s heroine who dies young). Perhaps with “tomorrow for me” Jonathan Larson was declaring that the torch of Lloyd Webber mega-musicals had been passed — or should have been passed — to HIS generation of composers and their very different kind of Broadway show. |
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| re: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 06:35 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
| In reply to: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? - TheBroadwayMaven 09:39 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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| No - it's clearly a clairvoyant song about Patti LuPone, from her dogged attempts to yell through Evita, all the way to "for me!!!" (i.e. starring in Gypsy). But, actually, "Tomorrow" really refers to Andrea McArdle. Angel was listening to her on the hi-fi while they were dancing in the backyard, on Avenue A. Or was that Avenue Q? Or Avenue P? (Really, Rosie?) Actually, of course, the song is really simply a parallel to Schaunard's "dead parrot" story in Act I of "La Bo-heem." :-) (Which might also mean there's a hidden Monty Python connection in there???) |
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| re: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 04:56 pm EST 11/27/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? - Chromolume 06:35 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
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| Rosie Real. :-) | |
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| re: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? | |
| Posted by: GavinLogan1 05:27 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
| In reply to: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? - TheBroadwayMaven 09:39 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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| That's... just ridiculous. Sorry. |
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| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 04:19 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
| In reply to: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? - TheBroadwayMaven 09:39 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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| Webber being conspicuously absent from "La Vie Boheme". | |
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| re: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? | |
| Posted by: schlepper 03:20 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
| In reply to: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? - TheBroadwayMaven 09:39 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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| How high are you? | |
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| re: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? | |
| Posted by: student_rush 10:18 am EST 11/24/22 | |
| In reply to: Who's the "U" in Rent's "Today 4 U"? What if it's Andrew Lloyd Webber? - TheBroadwayMaven 09:39 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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