Class act
Surely Andrew Lloyd Webber contradicts himself (page 4, August 3). If “you can almost tell which school they have come from”, how can they all have a “certain sameness”? Certainly one can usually tell the excellent singers and musicians coming from the Royal College of Music, the superb actors from RADA and the wonderful dancers from the Royal Ballet School.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Photo: BBC / Trevor Leighton
It was, however, in response to producers such as Cameron Mackintosh and Lord Lloyd-Webber that the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts was successfully launched some ten years ago to produce the professional artists needed to sing and dance and act for the musical productions of these impresarios.
The dreadful initial television programmes of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? have not only put me off seeing the rest of the series but has put me off seeing The Sound of Music yet again.
Harold Little
Colts Bay
Aldwick
West Sussex
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