November 28, 2005

I've checked, and this isn't on the list of my favourite things. Andrew Lloyd Webber is to start up a reality tv show, searching for the star of his stage remake of The Sound of Music.

Given the potential for life-altering, crippling embarrassment on national television, I'm tempted to watch. But that would involve also watching Andrew Lloyd Webber, so there goes that idea. Singing contests are nothing new for reality tv, of course, but mixed in with the concentrated saccharine schlock nostalgic appeal of The Sound of Music, this might keep reality tv on the ventilators for a while yet. (I post this link merely for the opportunity of providing a vehicle for excellent puns and manipulation of cherished lyrics. Don't disappoint me. Now, off you go.)

posted by Capt. Renault 18 years ago
  • I sense a Godwin coming up real soon
  • I despise Andrew Lloyd Webber with the white hot intensity of a thousand burning suns.
  • No need to be so Catty about it? Eh? Eh? He asked, I gave!
  • Grumpy Chy, Monkey Star, Wears Frilly knickers and a see-through bra!
  • Thank you, thank you, you're a great crowd... Now here's another funny story, I went to see those Three Tenors the other week. Mind you, I didn't have the traditional half-time hot dog. I didn't want to end up with the Fat Tum of the Opera, oh no. I know, I know - I slay you!
  • Ok, ok, just one more... My grandad was in the RAF, Bomber Command, in the war. Unfortunately, he kept falling asleep on raids. He told me he always used to have really weird Bombay Dreams! Eh? Eh? Aw c'mon, I'm on my own up here!
  • "And they all say / Oh, how I ne-ver / Was there e-ver / A monkey so clever / As Ma-gi-cal Mr. Kit-fi-i-sto?" And I'd answer 'probably, yes.'
  • This is what Capt really looks like:
  • That's a filthy Communist lie, straight outta Hanoi! I haven't looked like that since I got my nose fixed out of my Confirmation money.
  • Don't make me tell my Cats story again.
  • ALW did Jesus Christ Superstar, didn't he? And JCS is kinda cool. Drat! There's always a wrench in my hateworks! btw It's fun to stay at Vermont's Trapp Family Lodge!
  • Don't make me tell my Cats story again. The mere existence of that "play" is an affront to all that is beautiful and harmonious in the world. It is my own proof that Lucifer indeed exists, that his tools of choice are mediocrity and glitter, and that his ultimate goal is the complete and total squelching of the human spirit by elevating flashy, nonsensical "excitement" to the level of art. And Michael Bay is his prophet.
  • What Chyren said, but I'll raise him a few thousand white hot suns. ALW is the anit-xrist of music. For the love of ghod, jumping up and down on a pogo stick in the crying rain, make him stop. Now.
  • That brings us back to D'oh!
  • A thread, a Webber thread?
  • Re: a lot of oldies sung? Meh, for fame he'd clone himself.
  • The abomination has not yet died its deserved death. Also: a sequel to Phantom? No wonder the terrorists hate us...