Tell Me On A Sunday
Encyclopedia
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. Her romantic misadventures begin in New York City
, lead her to Hollywood
, and eventually take her back to Manhattan
.
, who intended to develop it as a cycle of television shows with songwriting partner Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two relished working on a small-scale project following Evita. Shortly after they began working, Lloyd Webber realized Rice was writing specifically for Elaine Paige
, with whom the married father of two young children was having a blatant affair. Lloyd Webber was offended by Rice's indiscretion, and he felt allowing Paige to appear in the series would suggest he approved of the relationship, so he decided to look for a new lyricist. He opted for Don Black who, following a successful stint in Hollywood (and an Academy Award for Best Original Song
for "Born Free"
), had begun writing for the theatre. Although it had proven to be unsuccessful, his Bar Mitzvah Boy
had impressed Lloyd Webber, who thought Black would be a good match.
Rice's original concept had kept 'the girl' in the UK. It was Black who suggested she emigrate to the States. He quickly began writing lyrics for several tunes Lloyd Webber already had composed. It was their intent to present as complete a work as possible at the Sydmonton Festival
in September 1979. The two decided to cast Marti Webb
, who was portraying Eva Perón
at the matinee performances of Evita, as their heroine.
The show was positively received at Sydmonton Festival in 1979, which promoted the release of a recording later that year, and a special one-hour BBC
television show recorded at the Royalty Theatre
in London on 28 January 1980. The broadcast on 12 February was a critical success and garnered high ratings; thus repeated the following month. Following its transmission, the album reached #2 on the UK charts, and the single release "Take That Look Off Your Face
" reached #3.
Lloyd Webber decided the piece would work well on the stage if paired appropriately with another one-act piece. He previously had considered writing a brief opera
tic piece about the friendship between Giacomo Puccini
and Ruggero Leoncavallo
, going so far as to compose the melody that later would become "Memory" for it, but decided it wouldn't fit well with 'the girl's' saga. He tried adapting the Charles Dickens
work The Signal-Man
, but decided it was too gloomy and rejected it as well. Eventually he and Black set aside Tell Me on a Sunday and turned to other projects.
choreographed to Lloyd Webber's Variations, a classical piece based on the A Minor Caprice No. 24 by Paganini
that had debuted at Sydmonton in 1977. Tell Me on a Sunday became Act I of Song and Dance
, which was staged in the West End
with Marti Webb
as 'the girl'. She later was succeeded by Lulu
, Gemma Craven
, Liz Robertson
, and Sarah Brightman
.
Three years later, lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr.
was brought in to help create an Americanised
version of Tell Me on a Sunday for Broadway
, with Bernadette Peters
as 'the girl', now renamed as Emma. It opened on 18 September 1985 to mixed reviews. Writing in the New York Post
, Clive Barnes
thought it was "the best thing that Lloyd Webber has written for the theater," but Frank Rich
of the New York Times was not impressed, observing that "empty material remains empty, no matter how talented those who perform it. Emma is a completely synthetic, not to mention insulting, creation whom no performer could redeem." Peters went on to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, but the show failed to win Best Musical or Best Original Score. Black, unimpressed that Peters had insisted on gathering background information about the character, later said he preferred the original London production and Webb's performance.
Reverted to its one-act format, Tell Me on a Sunday was substantially updated and rewritten, with five new songs and additional material by Jackie Clune
, for a 2003 London production at the Gielgud Theatre
. The BBC critic observed, "this may be the smallest show Lloyd Webber's ever written, but the score (to appropriately conversational lyrics by Don Black) contains several of his very best songs." Directed by Christopher Luscombe and starring Denise Van Outen
, it ran for ten months. Marti Webb succeeded Van Outen and subsequently toured the UK with the show, alternating with former Steps vocalist, Faye Tozer
and actress Patsy Palmer
.
In 2008, the Alloy Theater Company staged the original one-act version with Irish actress, Maxine Linehan, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City. That same year, the Kookaburra Theatre presented the Australia
n premiere starring Jolene Anderson
, with Noni Hazlehurst and John Waters
providing the voices of "Mum" and "Married Man" respectively. Despite mixed reviews, it had sellout performances in both Sydney
and Melbourne
.
Tell Me on a Sunday, in its one-act and "definitive" format, is presently touring the United Kingdom, starring Claire Sweeney
as 'the girl' with direction by Tamara Harvey. It began on 30 August 2010 at Northampton
's Royal Theatre and is to continue into the last quarter of 2010. Its song list and order is considerably different to previous productions.
'The girl' meets Hollywood producer Sheldon Bloom, who takes her to Los Angeles. Sheldon's career ambitions preclude his spending much time on a personal relationship and, after realizing life in the film capital is uneventful and Sheldon has been using her as a trophy girlfriend
, 'the girl' returns to Manhattan.
Back in Greenwich Village
, 'the girl' meets a salesman, and once again faces disappointment when she learns he frequently has been in town with other women when he supposedly was away on business. The two split up and she meets a married man. Intent on succeeding in her career and acquiring a green card, 'the girl' is content with the noon-to-two relationship she and the married man share, until he announces he has told his wife everything and wants to leave her and marry 'the girl'. She is horrified because not only does she not love him, but she realizes she's been using him, something she had vowed never to do. She sends the married man away and promises herself she will return to being the idealistic and ethical woman she was when she first arrived in the States.
'The girl' is the only person who appears on stage, despite having conversations with her friends and writing letters to her mum.
recording and subsequent London productions (of both Tell Me on a Sunday and Song and Dance) the lead character is not named, nor are most of the men she has relationships with, except Sheldon Bloom/Tyler King (2003 version). When Tell Me was combined with "Variations" to form Song and Dance, "the girl" was finally given a name - Emma, in the 1985 Broadway production, starring Bernadette Peters. This was the result of the rewrite of plot and lyrics, and "Americanization" by Don Black and Richard Maltby Jr.
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...
with music by 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...
and lyrics by Don Black. A one-act song cycle
Song cycle
A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's...
, it tells the story of an ordinary English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
girl from Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill is a suburb of north London, mostly in the London Borough of Haringey. It is situated about north of Charing Cross and around from the City of London. Muswell Hill is in the N10 postal district and mostly in the Hornsey and Wood Green parliamentary constituency.- History :The...
, who journeys to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in search of love. Her romantic misadventures begin in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, lead her to Hollywood
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema...
, and eventually take her back to Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
.
Background
The musical is based on an idea originally conceived by Tim RiceTim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...
, who intended to develop it as a cycle of television shows with songwriting partner Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two relished working on a small-scale project following Evita. Shortly after they began working, Lloyd Webber realized Rice was writing specifically for Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige OBE is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16...
, with whom the married father of two young children was having a blatant affair. Lloyd Webber was offended by Rice's indiscretion, and he felt allowing Paige to appear in the series would suggest he approved of the relationship, so he decided to look for a new lyricist. He opted for Don Black who, following a successful stint in Hollywood (and an Academy Award for Best Original Song
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
for "Born Free"
Born Free (song)
"Born Free" is a popular song with music by John Barry, and lyrics by Don Black. It was written for the 1966 film of the same name and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song....
), had begun writing for the theatre. Although it had proven to be unsuccessful, his Bar Mitzvah Boy
Bar Mitzvah Boy (musical)
Bar Mitzvah Boy is a musical with a book by Jack Rosenthal, lyrics by Don Black, and music by Jule Styne.Based on Rosenthal's award-winning 1976 BBC1 teleplay of the same name, it focuses on young Eliot Green who, filled with apprehension, escapes from the synagogue where he is about to make his...
had impressed Lloyd Webber, who thought Black would be a good match.
Rice's original concept had kept 'the girl' in the UK. It was Black who suggested she emigrate to the States. He quickly began writing lyrics for several tunes Lloyd Webber already had composed. It was their intent to present as complete a work as possible at the Sydmonton Festival
Sydmonton Festival
The Sydmonton Festival is a summer arts festival presented in a deconsecrated 16th century chapel on the grounds of Sydmonton Court, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Hampshire estate...
in September 1979. The two decided to cast 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...
, who was portraying Eva Perón
Eva Perón
María Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in...
at the matinee performances of Evita, as their heroine.
The show was positively received at Sydmonton Festival in 1979, which promoted the release of a recording later that year, and a special one-hour BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television show recorded at the Royalty Theatre
Royalty Theatre
The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho and opened on 25 May 1840 as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed to the public in 1938. The architect was Samuel Beazley, a resident in Soho Square, who also designed St James's Theatre, among...
in London on 28 January 1980. The broadcast on 12 February was a critical success and garnered high ratings; thus repeated the following month. Following its transmission, the album reached #2 on the UK charts, and the single release "Take That Look Off Your Face
Take That Look Off Your Face
"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...
" reached #3.
Lloyd Webber decided the piece would work well on the stage if paired appropriately with another one-act piece. He previously had considered writing a brief opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
tic piece about the friendship between Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
and Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer. His two-act work Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the repertory, appearing as number 20 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.-Biography:...
, going so far as to compose the melody that later would become "Memory" for it, but decided it wouldn't fit well with 'the girl's' saga. He tried adapting the Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
work The Signal-Man
The Signal-Man
The Signal-Man is a short story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the "Mugby Junction" collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round....
, but decided it was too gloomy and rejected it as well. Eventually he and Black set aside Tell Me on a Sunday and turned to other projects.
Productions
In 1982, the creative team decided to combine Tell Me on a Sunday with a balletBallet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
choreographed to Lloyd Webber's Variations, a classical piece based on the A Minor Caprice No. 24 by Paganini
Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...
that had debuted at Sydmonton in 1977. Tell Me on a Sunday became Act I of 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...
, which was staged in the West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
with 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...
as 'the girl'. She later was succeeded by Lulu
Lulu (singer)
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day...
, Gemma Craven
Gemma Craven
Gemma Craven is an award-winning Irish actress.She is possibly best known for her role in the Irish TV drama The Clinic as Dr...
, Liz Robertson
Liz Robertson
Liz Robertson is an English actress and singer. She is the widow of Playwright and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.Robertson began training at the Finch Stage School at the age of three. Her first professional employment was as a cabaret dancer at London's Savoy Hotel at the age of sixteen...
, and Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves and singing in the whistle register...
.
Richard Maltby, Jr.
Richard Eldridge Maltby, Jr. is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is also well known as a constructor of cryptic crossword puzzles. He has done this for Harper's Magazine, sometimes in collaboration with E. R...
was brought in to help create an Americanised
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
version of Tell Me on a Sunday for Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
, with Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings...
as 'the girl', now renamed as Emma. It opened on 18 September 1985 to mixed reviews. Writing in the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
, Clive Barnes
Clive Barnes (critic)
Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...
thought it was "the best thing that Lloyd Webber has written for the theater," but Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich is an American essayist and op-ed columnist who wrote for The New York Times from 1980, when he was appointed its chief theatre critic, until 2011...
of the New York Times was not impressed, observing that "empty material remains empty, no matter how talented those who perform it. Emma is a completely synthetic, not to mention insulting, creation whom no performer could redeem." Peters went on to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, but the show failed to win Best Musical or Best Original Score. Black, unimpressed that Peters had insisted on gathering background information about the character, later said he preferred the original London production and Webb's performance.
Reverted to its one-act format, Tell Me on a Sunday was substantially updated and rewritten, with five new songs and additional material by Jackie Clune
Jackie Clune
Jackie Clune is a British entertainer, noted as a woman journalist, actress, voiceover artiste and radio/TV broadcaster. She performs cabaret, and is known for her one-woman shows and late Karen Carpenter tribute act...
, for a 2003 London production at the Gielgud Theatre
Gielgud Theatre
The Gielgud Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, London, at the corner of Rupert Street. The house currently has 889 seats on three levels.-History:...
. The BBC critic observed, "this may be the smallest show Lloyd Webber's ever written, but the score (to appropriately conversational lyrics by Don Black) contains several of his very best songs." Directed by Christopher Luscombe and starring Denise Van Outen
Denise van Outen
Denise van Outen is an English actress, singer and television presenter. Her most notable roles to date are as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both the West End and on Broadway.- Early life :Born Denise Kathleen Outen in Basildon, Essex, she is the...
, it ran for ten months. Marti Webb succeeded Van Outen and subsequently toured the UK with the show, alternating with former Steps vocalist, Faye Tozer
Faye Tozer
Faye Louise Tozer is an English singer, songwriter and actress; famous for being a member of pop group Steps.-Music:Steps were a pop group that achieved a series of charted singles between 1997 and 2001...
and actress Patsy Palmer
Patsy Palmer
Patsy Palmer is an English actress. Palmer made an early television appearance on the children's drama show Grange Hill, but is best known for playing Bianca Jackson in the popular British television soap opera EastEnders. Originally in the cast from 1993–1999, Palmer returned to EastEnders in...
.
In 2008, the Alloy Theater Company staged the original one-act version with Irish actress, Maxine Linehan, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City. That same year, the Kookaburra Theatre presented the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n premiere starring Jolene Anderson
Jolene Anderson
Jolene Anderson is an Australian actress.Since 2006 she has played the character of Erica Templeton on the drama series All Saints...
, with Noni Hazlehurst and John Waters
John Waters (actor)
John Russell Waters is a film, theatre and television actor and musician best known in Australia, to where he moved in 1968...
providing the voices of "Mum" and "Married Man" respectively. Despite mixed reviews, it had sellout performances in both Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
.
Tell Me on a Sunday, in its one-act and "definitive" format, is presently touring the United Kingdom, starring Claire Sweeney
Claire Sweeney
Claire Jane Sweeney is an English actress, singer and television personality best known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside and her appearance on the first series of the Reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother.-Early Life:Sweeney was born in Walton, Liverpool...
as 'the girl' with direction by Tamara Harvey. It began on 30 August 2010 at Northampton
Northampton
Northampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. Situated about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, Northampton lies on the River Nene and is the county town of Northamptonshire. The demonym of Northampton is...
's Royal Theatre and is to continue into the last quarter of 2010. Its song list and order is considerably different to previous productions.
Plot
In the original production, 'the girl' arrives in New York City. She tells her pal she doesn't want to become a hard-bitten career woman or a user of men. Shortly after, she discovers her beau has been cheating on her with numerous other women and she walks out.'The girl' meets Hollywood producer Sheldon Bloom, who takes her to Los Angeles. Sheldon's career ambitions preclude his spending much time on a personal relationship and, after realizing life in the film capital is uneventful and Sheldon has been using her as a trophy girlfriend
Trophy wife
Trophy wife is an expression used to describe a wife, usually young and attractive, who is regarded as a status symbol for the husband, who is often older and affluent.-History:The term's etymological origins are disputed...
, 'the girl' returns to Manhattan.
Back in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
, 'the girl' meets a salesman, and once again faces disappointment when she learns he frequently has been in town with other women when he supposedly was away on business. The two split up and she meets a married man. Intent on succeeding in her career and acquiring a green card, 'the girl' is content with the noon-to-two relationship she and the married man share, until he announces he has told his wife everything and wants to leave her and marry 'the girl'. She is horrified because not only does she not love him, but she realizes she's been using him, something she had vowed never to do. She sends the married man away and promises herself she will return to being the idealistic and ethical woman she was when she first arrived in the States.
'The girl' is the only person who appears on stage, despite having conversations with her friends and writing letters to her mum.
'The Girl's' Name
In the Marti WebbMarti 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...
recording and subsequent London productions (of both Tell Me on a Sunday and Song and Dance) the lead character is not named, nor are most of the men she has relationships with, except Sheldon Bloom/Tyler King (2003 version). When Tell Me was combined with "Variations" to form Song and Dance, "the girl" was finally given a name - Emma, in the 1985 Broadway production, starring Bernadette Peters. This was the result of the rewrite of plot and lyrics, and "Americanization" by Don Black and Richard Maltby Jr.
Original 1980 album
- Take That Look Off Your Face
- Let Me Finish
- It's Not the End of the World (If I Lose Him)
- Letter Home To England
- Sheldon Bloom
- Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad
- You Made Me Think You Were in Love
- It's Not the End of the World (If He's Younger)
- Second Letter Home
- Come Back with the Same Look in Your Eyes
- Let's Talk About You
- Take That Look Off Your FaceTake That Look Off Your Face"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...
(Reprise) - Tell Me on a Sunday
- It's Not the End of the World (If He's Married)
- I'm Very You, You're Very Me
- Nothing Like You've Ever Known
- Let Me Finish (Reprise)
2003 London production
- 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 SongUnexpected Song"Unexpected Song" is a 1984 song from the musical Song & Dance originally sung by Bernadette Peters. The music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Don Black. A single was released by Sarah Brightman...
- 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
- Who Needs Men
- 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
1982 London production
- Let Me Finish
- It's Not the End of the World
- Letter Home to England
- Sheldon Bloom
- 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)
- Second Letter Home
- The Last Man in My Life
- Come Back With the Same Look in Your Eyes
- Take That Look Off Your FaceTake That Look Off Your Face"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...
- Tell Me on a Sunday
- I Love New York
- Married Man
- I'm Very You, You're Very Me
- Let's Talk About You
- Let Me Finish (Reprise)
- Nothing Like You've Ever Known
- Let Me Finish (Reprise)
2010 UK tour
- Let Me Finish
- It's Not the End of the World (If It's Over)
- Writing Home (For the First Time)
- Sheldon Bloom
- 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)
- Writing Home (For the Second Time)
- Unexpected Song
- The Last Man in My Life
- Come Back With the Same Look in Your Ees
- Take That Look off Your Face
- Tell Me on a Sunday
- It's Not the End of the World (If He's Married)
- Married Man
- Writing Home (For the Third Time)
- I'm Very You, You're Very Me
- Ready Made Life
- Let Me Finish (Reprise)
- Nothing Like You've Ever Known
- Writing Home (For the Fourth Time)
- Take That Look off Your Face (Reprise)
- Dreams Never Run on Time (Finale)