Productions2 on Broadway
| 1989 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show | |
| 1990 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. April 8, 1990 · Trevor Nunn | 377 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals ALW Collection | available |
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In the literature30 passages
One of ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S rare Broadway failures followed. Aspects of Love (4/8/90; 377 performances) had lyrics by Charles Hart and Don Black. Lloyd Webber adapted the libretto himself. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p104
Aspects of Love received critical bashing and lasted less than a year on Broadway but ran four years in London. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p482
Aspects of Love New York, 377 performances; London, 1,325 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p708
8 April: Aspects of Love, with music by Lloyd Webber, debuts at the Broadway Theater and runs for 377 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p31
Prince and Sondheim “decided to lyricize the various aspects of love. That was the intention.” book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p428
He cites Richard Rodgers as a primary influence and reveals candidly, ‘Musical theatre is the only thing that’s ever made me tick.’ 9 His librettos are cinematic, fantastic, dreamlike, sweeping, lush and conceptually rich in possibility. Whether developed from a film (Sunset Boulevard), a work of fiction (The Phantom o… book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p338
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