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  • Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets
    Want tickets to Wicked? Or Jersey Boys? If money is no object, check these guys out. Proceeds benefit the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
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  • Givenik
    When you buy tickets through Givenik, 5% goes to charity. Show choices are limited, but it's a nice way of diverting funds to a worthy cause.
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  • Internet Broadway Database
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  • Internet Off-Broadway Database
    Similar to the IBDB, except for Off-Broadway shows, and not quite as comprehensive.
  • London Theater
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  • Musical Shop
    Another source for foreign cast albums. Smaller selection than Sound of Music, but better prices.
  • Playbill Online
    The best theater site on the Web. News, features, columns, quizzes, contests, discount tickets, and more.
  • Sound Advice
    Talkin' Broadway's list of upcoming cast recordings, books, and DVDs. Updated very regularly.
  • Sound of Music
    Great source of foreign cast albums. Slow service, but, hey, they're shipping this stuff from Germany.
  • Theater Mania
    Usually has the same info as Playbill, but there are some interesting sub pages, and they actually print reviews.
  • Triton Gallery
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Les Miserables?

Saw the following Google link while reading another theater blog:

Les Miserables
Lloyd Webber's Sensational Classic
Tickets to the Hit Broadway Show
www.eazydealz.com

Lesmiserablescover_thumb Um...shouldn't someone selling tickets to a show know who actually wrote the damn thing? I'm sure that over the years there have been many people sans clue who have erroneously assumed that Andrew Lloyd Webber was responsible for every over-bloated blockbuster to hit Broadway in the 1980s.

But even the Broadway dilettante could tell you that Les Miserables is the work of Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, with English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. As far as I know, the only connection Lloyd Webber has to Les Miserables is that the show played the Palace Theater in London, which Lloyd Webber happens to own.

But to give credit where it's due, I must point out that EasyDealz.com at least got Andrew Lloyd Webber's last name right: it's "Lloyd Webber," not "Webber," as many of my Boston Conservatory students refer to him in their papers and essays that skewer the man's work.

September 03, 2007 in Just Plain Weird |

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Haha. The ad could have been an automated keyword insert and they made a mistake. It is funny how many "educated" people have such a low view of Lloyd Webber. If his stuff is so bad, why is it so popular? Obviously, people like it...

Posted by: Musical Theatre Spot | September 04, 2007 at 09:10 AM

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