Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber American Songbook, but unlike Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and many other artists, she had never recorded a complete album of songs by one composer. The songs on the album are all taken from the popular musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber, that he wrote with various lyricists. The oldest song found on the album is from the 1971 musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" which originally opened on Broadway in October of that year. Bringing it up to date the album also includes two songs from "Sunset Boulevard" which had recently premiered on July 12, 1993 in London's West End. Four songs had
Cricket (musical) Cricket (musical) Cricket, also called Cricket (Hearts and Wickets), is a short musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday celebration, and was first performed at Windsor Castle on 18 June 1986. Several of the tunes from the show were later used for "Aspects of Love", so the work was dropped from public performance or recording. "Cricket" was the last original musical Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote together. After their collaboration on "Evita" in 1978, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice took what was originally intended to