Sir Tim also has a string of awards to his name, including three best original song Oscars for You Must Love Me from Evita, A Whole New World from Aladdin and Can You Feel The Love Tonight from The Lion King, which he shared with Sir Elton John.
On the subway ride to work, I listened to "The Music of Mama Jean," a playlist I made when her mind had all but gone and music was one of the last things to which she responded: Burt Bacharach's "The Look of Love," "My Best Girl," from Mame, Mimi's aria from La Boehme, "High Flying Adored" from Evita, and Judy Garland's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
The star, continuing her series of re-imagined film classics, quickly makes the switch from the iconic "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from Evita to Wreckx-N-Effect's "Rump Shaker" in this promo.
The show is set in a disco: the audience stands, as if in a club, while, on the stage and on a rotating runway, Imelda (Ruthie Ann Miles, who gives the part everything she's got) transforms, Evita-like, from poor country girl to blank-faced diva.
Her latest volume of Lloyd Webber music includes a Spanish-language version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from "Evita".
But the show faces stiff competition in the musical revival category from "Evita," The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," and "Jesus Christ Superstar".
Bloomingdale's, which has rarely passed up the chance for a tie-in collection, from "Evita" to "Rent," had designers like Anna Sui and Max Azria interpret the Moulin Rouge look.
When Claude-Michel Schönberg's music is not echoing "Les Misérables," his other big show, it is shamelessly flaunting numbers and notes from "Evita".
And what was "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" (from "Evita"), arranged and sung country style by the guest singer Laura Cantrell, doing in the set beyond advertising the coming revival of "Evita," in which Mr. Cerveris will play Juan Perón?
Aided by Ann Reinking's choreography and David Korins's production design, Act I of this love-in is a pleasure; in Act II, when the singers hit their big numbers from "Evita" and the mediocrity of the Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber score, it flounders.
