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Aspects of Love (1989 original London cast)

Aspects of Love

Shows · Aspects of Love

In post–World War II Europe, the handsome Englishman Alex Dillingham (Michael Ball), the French actress Rose Vibert (Ann Crumb), the aging British playboy George Dillingham (Kevin Colson), the bisexual Italian artist Giulietta Trapani (Kathleen Rowe McAllen), and later Rose’s daughter Jenny (Danielle Du Clos) fall in and out of love with each other over a period of twenty years.

Opened
1990
Performances
377
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics: Don Black and Charles HartBook: Andrew Lloyd Webber; based on the novel by David Garnett

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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