Song and Dance
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Song and Dance is a musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is unique in the fact that the first act is completely sung and the second act is one big dance number.
It was originally conceived as Tell Me on a Sunday, a concert for theatre, starring Marti Webb. The dance numbers from act two originated on an album Lloyd Webber wrote for his brother, Julian Lloyd Webber and consist of the composer's variations on the A minor Caprice of Paganini. The title was changed and Sarah Brightman was put in the role of "Emma" for a television special.
This two-part production was adapted for Broadway in 1985 by Richard Maltby, but met with mixed-to-negative reviews; critics loved the performance of Bernadette Peters, who subsequently won a Tony for the role, but had little praise for the show itself. It closed after a year.
The original concept of Tell Me on a Sunday has since been restored and it reopened in London in April of 2003 starring Denise Van Outen.
Songs
- Take That Look Off Your Face
- Let Me Finish
- It's Not The End of The World
- Goodbye Mum, Goodbye Girls
- Haven in The Sky
- First Letter Home
- Speed Dating
- Second Letter Home
- Tyler King
- Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad
- You Made Me Think You Were in Love
- Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad (reprise)
- It's not the End of the World (If He's Younger)
- Third Letter Home
- Unexpected Song
- Come Back With the Same Look in Your Eyes
- Let's Talk About You
- Take That Look Off Your Face (Reprise)
- Tell Me On A Sunday
- It's Not the End of The World
- Fourth Letter Home
- Ready Made Life/I'm Very You
- Let Me Finish
- Nothing Like You've Ever Known
- Fifth Letter Home
- Somewhere, Someplace, Sometimede:Song and Dance