Rating: 
Summary: I wish I could vote it 500/5!
Review: These are all my favorite performers singing my favorite songs. I especially loved the songs from Whistle Down the Wind. Antionio Banderas was excellent, as were Tina Arena, Glenn Close, Michael Ball, and Kiri Te Kanawa ainging the Heart Is Slow to Learn. I would love if someone threw me a birthday party like this! Anyone who enjoyed this would love My Favorite Broadway Leading Ladies! I wish more of Lord Lloyd-Webber's musicals to the states. The last we had was By Jeeves and that closed early. Why no Beautiful Game or Whistle Down the Wind?
Rating:
Summary: Discovering Elaine Page!
Review: I have always considered "Memories" an insipid song (although I am a great fan of both Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S.Eliot!!). And being allergic to cats, I never paid much attention to the musical when it first came out (negative conditioning). But the first time I saw and heard Elaine Page do "Memories" on this DVD, I realized that this was not the "Memories" I had so disliked before. Had I been on another planet? How could I have missed out on Elaine Page all these years? I was transfixed by this blonde vision in black (great dress with a cat-like neckline). What expressive eyes, what a gorgeous voice! Her face and voice must've covered a thousand emotions in those few minutes. Was she this good twenty years ago? Or has experience given her that performing edge over younger actors/singers? Man, that girl knows how to work a stage!
Rating: 
Summary: SOME OF MY FAVORITES HERE!
Review: There are a few performances on this DVD that I could live without, but the ones I do like are excellent. Donny Osmond - Joseph (good songs - performed well). Antonio Banderas - Evita (quite good). Glenn Close and her dramatics from Sunset Blvd - wow! Boyzone - yes a boy band (No Matter What - a terrific song) - good job and great voices. But the most excellent and my favorites here are from Michael Ball - boy I wish I could sing like him. Excellent voice and great stage presence. What a performer. Not many can hold a candle to him. Great DVD overall - buy it now and be prepared to be entertained.
Rating:
Summary: A must dvd
Review: This a Great dvd Michal Ball was the hilight od the dvd for me he does Gethsemane with power and style all of the other songs where great as well
Rating:
Summary: Fantastic
Review: I had purchased two copies of this in video format because I was afraid I was going to wear the first one out. Actually, I was playing the Boyzone segment (No Matter What) over and over repeatedly. I recently purchased the DVD and I love it. Stephen Gately of Boyzone is incredibly talented. Although Boyzone is no longer together, he has gone on to now star in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in London's West End. I've had the good fortune to see him in it and to meet him. He's as charming and sweet as he seems to be from his performance in this show. ...
Rating:
Summary: More Praise for "Gethsemane"
Review: This is an amazing, entertaining show and the broad range of vocal talent included is great fun. I purchased the video after reading several of the reviews here - primarily to check out Michael Ball's "Gethsemane" - having recently discovered him on the Les Miserable TAC video. I have to agree with a number of the reviewers...he steals the show, not only with Gethsemane, but with the strength of his personality and vocal ability in each of his other three performances. Where have the British been hiding him? I also loved (and was surprised by)Donny Osmond's "Joseph" segment, Boyzone's "No Matter What" and Glenn Close's Nora Desmond. Definitely one you will watch over and over.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: A must for ALL Lloyd Webber fans!!! Includes songs from almost all of Lloyd Webber's musicals. The best selections are(I think)"Don't Cry For Me Argentina", "Whistle Down The Wind(both of them)", "The Phantom('Phantmot' :) watch Antonio Banderas) of the Opera" and its overture, "Memory", "Close Every Door" and a ton more! Sarah Brightman(she can still hit high A's!) was great, but I thought she was going way too slow for "Phantom". Also some minor rhythm glitches with the Phantom overture. Speaking of which, it was cool with that guy in the Phantom costume really playing the organ.
The kids in "Every Dream Will Do" and "Close Every Door" were really cute. Did you see that one kid let go of the balloon? :)
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" is one of the best songs. The thing that is weird though, is that "Oh What A Circus" has the same melody.
I loved both of the "Whistle Down The Wind"s, but especially the one where Lloyd Webber provided the accompaniment with the piano.
Every song is excellent!!! Must have.
Also the conductor is really fun to watch, he gets totally into the songs. :)
Rating:
Summary: Stars Galore!
Review: I had seen bits and pieces of this on PBS several years ago, and purchased the video recently on the advice of a friend. I've long enjoyed Andrew Lloyd Webber's music, and enjoyed just about every performance in this show. Some of the highlights for me were:Michael Ball -- Unknown to me before seeing him in the West End in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, (somehow I missed his parts of the show when I saw it on PBS), he was one of the main reasons I purchased this video. The four songs he sang here were absolutely marvelous; Gethsemane -- very powerful and full of emotion. Vaults of Heaven-- wonderful as was his duet with Sarah Brightman, All I ask of You. And Love Changes Everything -- quite simply, magnificant, made even more so with the full cast joining in. Glenn Close was magnificent singing her songs from Sunset Boulevard. Antonio Banderas surprised me -- he was very good with the songs from Evita, but not so good with the title song from Phantom of the Opera -- there were minor problems with his phrasing, and, in certain parts of the song, he sounded as though he were singing out of his range. Donny Osmond -- loved his renditions of Any Dream will Do and Close Every Door. Sarah Brightman -- for the most part her performances were lovely. However, I was disappointed with her performance of Pie Jesu. Rounding her mouth as she did through most of the song rendered the words almost unintelligible, and spoiled the beauty of the song for me. I have seen her do this song without rounding her mouth and the words were much clearer and the sound just as good. Ben De'ath, the boy soprano who sang with her on this performance was much clearer in his enunciation. All in all the concert was spectacular. If you enjoy ALW's music, I recommend this.
Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Incredible
Review: I have enjoyed this DVD so much. I love to have it on the surround sound while I clean the house or cook. There are so many incredible performances. Tina Arena is one of those performers who owns a song when she sings it. She tears up "Whistle Down The Wind." Her performance is incredible. I can't wait to hear more from her. I would love to hear her sing more Broadway-- I wonder how she would sound on "On My Own" from Les Mis?
I love Michael Ball in Les Miserables, but here I didn't really care for the songs he sang, except "All I Ask of You." That was great. But he seemd to strut onto the stage with a kind of "Yeah, it's me. Aren't I wonderful" look on his face.
I thought Antonio Banderas made a wonderful Che in the movie and here as well as in the Phantom performance with Sarah Brightman. His accent added something to the song. Glen Close was, for lack of another word, incredible. I wish I could have seen her on stage in Sunset Boulevard. The final performance of Whistle Down the Wind was awful. I don't know why they included that-- it couldn't even come close to Tina Arena's performance at the beginning. Every other performance is first class.
Now, if we can just get a concert DVD for Miss Saigon, I'll be happy.
Rating:
Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is an excellent film for a man who deserved a concert like this. Michael Ball absolutely steals the show with his songs Gethsemane-Beautifl and powerful
Vaults of Heaven-Inspirational
All I Ask Of You-Haunting Ball is the ultimate on this but the others give him a run for his money. Antonio Banderas although not suited for the voice of the Phantom does a wonderful Che from Evita. The guy who does Starlight Express's "Light at the End of the Tunnel" is a ton of fun to watch. Buy this!
| 
