De BBC meldt dat voor 2009 geen opvolger staat gepland voor I’d Do Anything. Voor 2010 zou Lloyd Webber op zoek willen naar Dorothy voor ‘The Wizard Of Oz’. Meer info in onderstaande quote waarin Lloyd Webber ook wel wat kritiek levert op de laatste zoektocht naar Nancy en Oliver.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has confirmed he will not be doing another BBC One West End talent search show next year.
However, speaking to Closer magazine the composer said he would be back in 2010 to find a Dorothy to star in a production of The Wizard of Oz.
“I’ve been asked to do another Saturday show, but I think this year I need to give the casting show a rest,” he said.
However, a BBC spokesperson said she was “not in a position to confirm” Lloyd Webber’s next project. “We look forward to working with him again in 2009.”
Lloyd Webber has admitted he wants to commit fully to his sequel of The Phantom of the Opera.
“I have my own musical in Phantom two to get on with and bits and pieces to do in America, the 60-year-old said.
“There will not be another custom show with the BBC next year - [not] with me anyway. But I will do the search in 2010 to find Dorothy and possibly Toto the dog,” he added.
“The problem with Phantom two is I can’t produce the show in full. So I can’t commit to a BBC show until 2010.
“I can’t just do them - I need to be involved in producing it and you need a team, a theatre and everything else. And Phantom two is my first concern right now.”
Lord Lloyd Webber suggested his most recent BBC project, I’d Do Anything, had not worked so well because he was not as involved as he had been in previous shows.
“I think Oliver! didn’t connect half as well with the public because neither had I wrote Oliver! or was I producing it.
“I think the public like the thought of my head being on the block so to speak. That it’s a risk. The BBC can’t be seen to be promoting my work.
“I enjoyed doing Oliver! and there were good kids that came out of it. But I don’t think it had quite the same range of appeal.”
De BBC meldt dat voor 2009 geen opvolger staat gepland voor I’d Do Anything. Voor 2010 zou Lloyd Webber op zoek willen naar Dorothy voor ‘The Wizard Of Oz’. Meer info in onderstaande quote waarin Lloyd Webber ook wel wat kritiek levert op de laatste zoektocht naar Nancy en Oliver.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has confirmed he will not be doing another BBC One West End talent search show next year.
However, speaking to Closer magazine the composer said he would be back in 2010 to find a Dorothy to star in a production of The Wizard of Oz.
“I’ve been asked to do another Saturday show, but I think this year I need to give the casting show a rest,” he said.
However, a BBC spokesperson said she was “not in a position to confirm” Lloyd Webber’s next project. “We look forward to working with him again in 2009.”
Lloyd Webber has admitted he wants to commit fully to his sequel of The Phantom of the Opera.
“I have my own musical in Phantom two to get on with and bits and pieces to do in America, the 60-year-old said.
“There will not be another custom show with the BBC next year - [not] with me anyway. But I will do the search in 2010 to find Dorothy and possibly Toto the dog,” he added.
“The problem with Phantom two is I can’t produce the show in full. So I can’t commit to a BBC show until 2010.
“I can’t just do them - I need to be involved in producing it and you need a team, a theatre and everything else. And Phantom two is my first concern right now.”
Lord Lloyd Webber suggested his most recent BBC project, I’d Do Anything, had not worked so well because he was not as involved as he had been in previous shows.
“I think Oliver! didn’t connect half as well with the public because neither had I wrote Oliver! or was I producing it.
“I think the public like the thought of my head being on the block so to speak. That it’s a risk. The BBC can’t be seen to be promoting my work.
“I enjoyed doing Oliver! and there were good kids that came out of it. But I don’t think it had quite the same range of appeal.”
Daar ben ik het mee eens. Ik heb nu met “Op Zoek Naar Joseph” al van ‘laat het hierna gewoon ophouden’ of tenminste een andere opzet. Al die talentenjachten, terwijl er denk ik al genoeg talent rondloopt in musicalland!
De Daily Mail heeft meer info over een nieuwe produktie van ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ die eind 2010 in premiere zou moeten gaan.
The Wizard Of Oz, one of the most famous movies in the history of cinema, is getting a top-to-bottom overhaul, including new songs and score, for a stage production that will hit London late next year.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and his associates have spent months seeking permission from those who control the rights to the film and to L. Frank Baum’s original story to be allowed to add five or six new songs.
These will be added to the classic E. Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen numbers that include Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Follow The Yellow Brick Road and If I Only Had A Brain.
Lloyd Webber explained that when The Wizard Of Oz has been done on stage in the past ‘they attempt to do it exactly the same as the movie. That’s completely wrong! You’ve got to think of it as a theatre piece, which just happens to have three or four of the greatest songs of all time.’
The composer has enjoined New Yorker Glenn Slater (with whom he is also working on Love Never Dies, see above left) to write the lyrics for the new numbers. Slater pointed out that there are many ‘obvious’ slots in the Wizard Of Oz where new songs could fit.
‘It doesn’t have an opening number; it doesn’t have a song for the witch,’ the lyricist told me, adding that even the poor old wizard doesn’t have a number of his own. ‘It’s missing what it needs to become an actual theatrical piece.’
Jeremy Sams has been asked to direct the new Wizard. But what about venues? There had been rumours about the Palladium.
When I pointed out to Andrew that Sister Act is due to open there soon, he responded: ‘Well, it’s not going there now. There are other theatres.’ Then he laughed, adding: ‘We haven’t written anything yet!’
Ben er best wel benieuwd naar, hoop alleen wel dat die nieuwe nummers niet ten koste gaan van de bestaande nummers zoals bij Mary Poppins. Hopelijk blijft de musical toch meer op de film lijken dan op het boek, want het boek vind ik niet heel goed en de film wel. Het is ook wel leuk dat je dan ‘s middags naar Wicked kan en ‘s avonds meteen naar het vervolg.
Blijkbaar is de BBC zoektocht naar Dorothy voor de revival produktie van ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ in 2010 van de baan. Lloyd Webber heeft in overleg met de omroep besloten om de plannen te cancellen om iedere schijn van belangenverstrengeling tegen te gaan. Dorothy wordt nu op de reguliere manier gecast.
Lloyd Webber en de BBC zijn toch tot een overeenkomst gekomen voor een nieuwe TV zoektocht op de zaterdagavond die plaats gaat vinden in het voorjaar van 2010. In de show die simpelweg ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ gaat heten gaat men niet alleen op zoek naar Dorothy maar ook naar Toto.
After the success of its previous Lloyd Webber talent shows How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and Any Dream Will Do, BBC One has commissioned this new show to run on Saturday nights next year.
The exact format of the dog auditions has not yet been confirmed, but a BBC source said that “a Barbara Woodhouse-type expert” would be on hand to help with the casting.
The announcement of this new show scotches rumours that Lord Lloyd Webber was about to defect from the BBC to ITV, though it seems that the inclusion of Toto in the programme has been a closely fought contractual issue between Lord Lloyd Webber and the BBC.
“A big sticking point for me, this was,” said Lord Lloyd Webber. “This is what the BBC wanted and I had to point out to them that as a cat man, this was not something that I was very happy about at all. The whole thing fills me with extreme concern.
“I might insist on having a cat on the programme, because I think the BBC as a public service broadcaster have got to give equal time in my view to cats.”
As well as Toto, Lord Lloyd Webber is looking for a new Dorothy to take on the iconic Judy Garland role from the 1939 film. “I want to play her as a slightly rebellious girl who wants to get away from home,” said Lord Lloyd Webber.
For the West End production, Lord Lloyd Webber and lyricist Glenn Slater will also write new songs to complement classics from the original film such as Over the Rainbow. “We are going to write an opening number, and there is no song for the wizard,” said Lord Lloyd Webber. “There isn’t really anything for the wicked witch - pretty obvious holes.”
The new BBC One show will be called simply The Wizard of Oz, and will be the first West End talent show in two years to feature Lord Lloyd Webber.
He hit back at criticisms of his BBC shows, saying that they had created a number of West End stars who now had ongoing careers, including Connie Fisher, Niamh Perry and Jodie Prenger.
His BBC musical talent show series has been criticised by the actor and theatre director Kevin Spacey for being a “13-week promotion” for a musical.
Recent press reports have suggested that Lord Lloyd Webber would take his next TV talent show to ITV, because the BBC’s editorial impartiality rules would have forbidden him from using the show to promote his new musical Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, which is expected to open in the West End early next year. However, Lord Lloyd Webber said that it was entirely a scheduling clash, which the BBC had solved by agreeing to run the new TV show later in the year after he finishes promoting Love Never Dies.
De audities beginnen in januari 2010 en hopelijk staan Graham Norton en Andrew Lloyd Webber met ‘Over The Rainbow’ weer garant voor een aantal leuke televisieavonden !
The Search for Dorothy starts Friday 26 March 2010, 9pm on BBC One
Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing one of the world’s most beloved musicals to the West End stage, and he needs you!
Starting in Spring 2010, Over The Rainbow reunites Lord Lloyd Webber and host Graham Norton to find the nations’ Dorothy for The Wizard of Oz.
Helping Andrew and the nation choose the perfect Dorothy is a shiny panel of experts: singer Charlotte Church, EastEnders star John Partridge, and esteemed actress Sheila Hancock.
