(*) Upcoming: Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameo Theatre, San Antonio, December 8 - 31

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Andrew Lloyd Webber's

CATS

(Mainstage)
Cameo Theatre with Pennington Studios
Playwright(s): Based on the universally popular poetry of T.S. Eliot; Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber * Produced and Directed by Jonathan Pennington * Co-Directed by Jovi Lee Gonzales
Jonathan Pennington Studios Presents: Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS
"Experience the Magic and Memories of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic the Holiday Season."
Based on the universally popular poetry of T.S. Eliot, CATS tells the story, in song and dance, of the annual gathering of Jellicle cats at which time one special cat is selected to ascend to the Heaviside layer. A true musical theatre phenomenon, CATS opened at London's New London Theatre on May 11, 1981 and ran for a record-setting 21 years. CATS's London success was nearly matched on Broadway where it ran at the Wintergarden Theatre for just over 18 years.
At the Cameo Theatre 1123 East Commerce St San Antonio, Tx 78205

Location: 1123 East Commerce St., San Antonio, Texas, 78205
Times: DECEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 31, 2012
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm * Sundays at 3:30pm
**SPECIAL Performance** Thursday Dec 27, 2012 at 8pm
**SPECIAL Performance** New Years Eve Dec 31, 2012 at 8pm - With New Years Eve Celebration following the show and ROOF TOP FIRE WORKS!
Tickets: *** TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE *** Adults $33 * Seniors $25 * Students 13 and older/Military $20 * Students 12 and under $15

For More Information: FOR TICKETS GO TO: www.cameocenter.com OR Call 210.212.5454
For more information go to: www.jonathanpenningtonstudios.com
Additional Website for the Show: jonathanpenningtonstudios.com
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Upcoming: Evita by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Georgetown Palace, February 18 - March 20

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Evita

By Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber

Feb 18- Mar 20 Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2 PM

Georgetown Palace Theatre, 810 S. Austin Avenue, Georgetown (click for map)

Prices: General: $24; Senior(55+): $22; Student(13-22)/Active Duty Military (with ID): $14
Children(12 or younger): $10

Don’t Cry for Her, Georgetown Texas! Argentina's controversial First Lady is back in this dynamic musical masterpiece. Eva escaped her dirt-poor existence for the bright lights of Buenos Aires at age 15. Driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, she was a starlet at 22, First Lady at 27, and dead at 33. Featuring a compelling score with exuberant Latin, pop, and jazz influences, EVITA creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.

Arts Reporting: Lloyd Webber Prepares A New Version of 'Oz' and the Telegraph (UK) Explores Its Perennial Appeal

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Wizard of Oz: Why is Andrew Lloyd Webber setting out on the Yellow Brick Road?

William Langley explores the perennial appeal of L Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.

The Telegraph, UK

Published: 6:35PM BST 25 Sep 2010

Looked at closely enough, even the greatest showbusiness masterpieces have their flaws. But happily, most of them are nothing the good Lord Lloyd-Webber can't fix.

"The fact is that The Wizard of Oz has never really worked in the theatre," declares the West End maestro. "The film has one or two holes where you really need a song. For instance, there's nothing for either of the two witches to sing."

Next year, therefore, Lloyd Webber's souped-up, enhanced-witch-deployment version will hit the stage – starring Michael Crawford, it was announced last week, alongside 18-year-old Danielle Hope, winner of the BBC talent show Over The Rainbow.

But will it be better? Worse? Or just different? For more than 70 years, the original film version of L Frank Baum's children's story has stood as such a monument to wholesomeness and innocence that hardly anyone remembers what a nightmare it was to make, or the toll it took on its participants.

Judy Garland, barely 16 when she landed the role of Dorothy, went on to a life of scarcely relieved hell, marrying five times, sinking into debt and depression, and dying, aged 47, from an overdose of barbiturates. Popular song-and-dance man Buddy Ebsen, originally cast as the Tin Man, nearly died after inhaling aluminium powder from his costume and woke up in hospital to be handed a bunch of flowers by producer Mervyn LeRoy and told: "By the way, you're fired." On Palm Sunday in 1962, Clara Blandick, who played lovely Auntie Em, returned home alone from church, laid out the awards, mementos and photographs from her career in her bedroom, put a gold blanket over her shoulders, and tied a plastic bag around her head. Even Toto the dog had a nervous breakdown.

And it wasn't as if the film was an immediate success. [ . . .]

Read more at the Telegraph newspaper, UK . . . .