Andrew Lloyd Webber to do Master and Margarita?!?!?!?!?!?!

[NotQuiteCockney]

I saw a reference to this in the paper on the weekend, and thought, "ha ha ha someone's got a sense of humour". But no, apparently it is true . WTF?

oh my GOD

I really should have run him over when I got the chance....

You could have run him over and you didn't?

I am pretty sure this is another Sign of the End Times.

call it quick reactions - a figure loomed out of the fog in front of my car on Richmond Green and I slammed my brakes on before realizing it was ALW. A real missed chance (and a very surreal moment). DH has never really forgiven me.

It will be a travesty. I wonder whose music he'll knock off this time? Prokoviev, if he's got any sense (now a Prokoviev version, that would be great - shame he's dead)

Share my horror!

no way

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Hmm, good point, re: "why?". I mean, it's not like the Master and Margerita has great importance to the average British punter ...

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It's a whole blackly humourous satire on the Soviet system, isn't it? I have read it, and fairly recently, but I'm pretty blazingly ignorant about Soviet history and literature, and have poor recall.

Very odd.

More shared horror, please!

yes, I think this is a sure sign of the End Of The World.
along with those little gourmet meals for pets with garnishes.
and those 4 horsemen I saw this morning.

I see...Lots of flying witches singing in chorus suspended on wire over the stage, and groups of men in uniform marching and singing. Awful.

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oh god, we MUST see this

oh god mIchael Ball WILL be in it no doubt
in really tight trousers

vile

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Alternatively, we could all get off our faces on appropriate substances and cackle our way through?

(I once did this with a dreadful American movie ... actually, I think my friends and I were all sober, but just completely unable to take any of it seriously. I don't think the other people in the theatre appreciated us much )