Andrew Lloyd Webber "Joseph" began life as a short cantata that gained some recognition on its second staging with a favourable review in "The Times". For its subsequent performances, Rice and Lloyd Webber revised the show and added new songs to expand it to a more substantial length. Continued expansion eventually culminated in a 1972 stage musical and then a two-hour-long production being staged in the West End in 1973 on the back of the success of "Jesus Christ Superstar". In 1969 Rice and Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the Eurovision Song Contest called "Try It and See", which was not selected.
Cricket (musical) Cricket Club uniform. A segment of the original rehearsals of "Cricket" was televised on the Andrew Lloyd Webber instalment of "The South Bank Show", which aired on 15 November 1986. The segment featured Sarah Payne and Alvin Stardust rehearsing "As the Seasons Slip Fruitlessly By" and "The Sport of Kings". There have been no further performances of the musical. Lloyd Webber used at least five of the tunes from "Cricket" in his musical "Aspects of Love" (1989). This meant that "Cricket", which had been extremely well received, was a dead item, a fact that greatly distressed Tim Rice. The piece