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 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