# God damn you to hell, Andrew Lloyd Webber! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709 "2000-12-15T06:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peculiar\_Pixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@Peculiar\_Pixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peculiar_Pixie)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709/1 "2000-12-15T06:39:37Z")
Your alleged “music” sucks. You are only a successful opportunist. I had to suffer through _years_ of going to a performing arts school and listening to your brackish, neuron-dissolving dreck being used as audition pieces and in choral performances. No doubt this has caused some kind of damage to me that will be readily apparent a few years down the line - cumulative toxins like that are not easily excreted… And for god’s sake, if you _have_ to plaigiarize someone, if you are compelled by some unseen force more powerful than your own worm-shot will to use other people’s work with your name printed on it; **don’t plaigiarize Wagner!** Please, anyone but neurotic, self-indulgent drama-queen WAGNER! BAHHHHHH! _begins descent into madness_ ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709/2 "2000-12-15T07:39:20Z")
LOL…In my college a cappella group we used to automatically disqualify auditioners who sang anything from any Lloyd Webber musical, except for Jesus Christ Superstar, which for some reason, we all really liked. I was once in a community theater production of Evita! Does that make you want to stick pins under your fingernails? Fortunately, **Cats** should pretty much ensure his place in hell. ---
**Author:** ![Ankh\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709/3 "2000-12-15T08:09:12Z")
The best line I’ve ever heard about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music was from Rowan Atkinson in **An Evening with Rowan Atkinson**. During the skit _The Good Loser_ he refers to “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest reaarangement of Puccini’s greatest hits.” That always slays me. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709/4 "2000-12-15T16:01:57Z")
If you get the chance, pick up copies of the various incarnations of “Forbidden Broadway.” They have no mercy on ALW, nor should they. They make nasty references to Sarah Brightman, his rise in the '80’s with Cats and the like, his fall to Disney… you name it, they skewer him for it, and well. All I can remember off the top of my head is a line about Puccini being really pissed. 😃 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709/5 "2000-12-15T16:27:50Z")
You might want to track down a copy of “Memory” done by a band called Big Daddy. They do it as a 50’s doo-wop song. ---
**Author:** ![Peculiar\_Pixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@Peculiar\_Pixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peculiar_Pixie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709/6 "2000-12-16T04:52:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by magdalene \* > **I was once in a community theater production of Evita! Does that make you want to stick pins under your fingernails?** YES!!! Oh God, 1996 was The Year of Dichotomy for me… bad memories…returning…must…repress… rage… ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-damn-you-to-hell-andrew-lloyd-webber/45709/7 "2000-12-16T05:09:31Z")
::hides her Broadway recording of _Evita_ in shame:: Robin