Tell Me on a Sunday
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Tell Me on a Sunday is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black.
A one-woman tour-de-force about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York City and Hollywood, it was written specifically for Marti Webb. It was presented at the Sydmonton Festival in the summer of 1979, subsequently recorded for an album release, and was aired as a one-hour television special by the BBC the following January.
Combined with a ballet choreographed to Lloyd Webber's Variations, a classical piece based on the A Minor Caprice No. 24 by Paganini, it became Act I of Song and Dance, first mounted in London in 1982 (again with Marti Webb, followed by Sarah Brightman, who replaced her in 1984), then Americanized for a 1985 Broadway production with Bernadette Peters.
Reverted to its one-act format, the show was substantially updated and rewritten, with additional material by Jackie Clune and five new songs, for a 2003 London production at the Gielgud Theatre. Directed by Christopher Luscombe and starring Denise Van Outen, it ran for ten months. Marti Webb succeeded Van Outen in the West End and subsequently toured the UK with the show. Webb was succeeded on the tour by Faye Tozer and then Patsy Palmer.
In the revised version, the girl is more of a predator who goes to New York looking for men and love but finds self-deception. "Speed Dating," one of the new songs, is typical of the new emphasis of the piece.
The song "Take That Look Off Your Face" proved to be a major UK charts hit for Webb.
In 2008 the alloy theater company [1] restaged the original one act version starring Irish actress Maxine Linehan[2] at The Laurie Beechman Theatre on 42nd street, the first New York production in 22 years.
[edit] 2003 song list
- Take That Look Off Your Face
- Let Me Finish
- It's Not the End of the World
- Goodbye Mum, Goodbye Girls
- Haven in the Sky
- First Letter Home
- Speed Dating
- Second Letter Home
- Tyler King
- Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad
- You Made Me Think You Were in Love
- Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad (Reprise)
- It's Not the End of the World (If He's Younger)
- Third Letter Home
- Unexpected Song
- Come Back With the Same Look in Your Eyes
- Let's Talk About You
- Take That Look Off Your Face (Reprise)
- Tell Me on a Sunday
- It's Not the End of the World
- Fourth Letter Home
- Ready Made Life/I'm Very You
- Let Me Finish
- Nothing Like You've Ever Known
- Fifth Letter Home
- Somewhere, Someplace, Sometime
