Take That Look Off Your Face
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"Take That Look Off Your Face" is the title of a hit song by musical theatre
composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
. Collaborating with lyricist Don Black, it was written for the song cycle show Tell Me on a Sunday
in 1978. It was sung and released by Marti Webb
in 1980, and became a No.3 hit in the UK charts. Later, Tell Me on a Sunday was combined with another Lloyd Webber work, Variations, to form an entire new show, Song and Dance
.
The song is about a woman being told of her boyfriend's infidelity. The woman denies this fact and sends her newsbearer (a girlfriend) off. This number is usually followed by the show's title song, "Tell me on a Sunday", which was Webb's follow-up single.
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
. Collaborating with lyricist Don Black, it was written for the song cycle show Tell Me on a Sunday
Tell Me On A Sunday
Tell Me on a Sunday is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black. A one-act song cycle, it tells the story of an ordinary English girl from Muswell Hill, who journeys to the United States in search of love...
in 1978. It was sung and released by Marti Webb
Marti Webb
Marti Webb is a musical actress from England, who appeared on stage in Evita, before starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one woman show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1980...
in 1980, and became a No.3 hit in the UK charts. Later, Tell Me on a Sunday was combined with another Lloyd Webber work, Variations, to form an entire new show, Song and Dance
Song and Dance
Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a love story.The first part is Tell Me On A Sunday, with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York...
.
The song is about a woman being told of her boyfriend's infidelity. The woman denies this fact and sends her newsbearer (a girlfriend) off. This number is usually followed by the show's title song, "Tell me on a Sunday", which was Webb's follow-up single.