Get Onto My Cloud: The Tim Rice Podcast

by Broadway Podcast Network

Get Onto My Cloud has Tim at his chatty witty best, where he talks about his career in theatre and music, his colleagues and friends (plus the odd foe) and sometimes roams off stage to discuss other important matters in his life such as cricket, astronomy, Sunderland FC and boxer dogs. You can also expect to listen to recordings of some of his favourite lyrics (not always the obvious ones) and he reveals how and why some shows worked brilliantly and some didn’t. Described as “Relaxed, casual, essential listening for musical theatre fans and historians.” Sir Tim Rice wrote the lyrics for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Chess and The Lion King, to name but five. The composers he has worked with include Andrew Lloyd Webber, Elton John, Alan Menken, ABBA’s Bjorn and Benny and Freddie Mercury.

Episodes

The original Evita album (part 1)

29m · Published 20 Jul 10:40

How to follow Jesus Christ Superstar? After failing to make headway working on a musical with Andrew Lloyd Webber based on PG Wodehouse’s immortal Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, Tim came up with the insane idea of a musical about the wife of an Argentine dictator. Before Evita became a stage show, it was a record. This episode of Get Onto My Cloud tells the story of that recording in the long hot British summer of 1976 featuring some out-takes and lesser known songs from the score, plus the original version of what became Don’t Cry For Me Argentina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Superstar Rocks Broadway (sort of)

28m · Published 13 Jul 07:14

Tim recalls the first time a work by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice made it to Broadway. The show was Jesus Christ Superstar, the year 1971, and it was not always plain sailing, despite the huge success of the 1970 studio album recording. But the work survived, and half a century on, continues to be performed around the world (except right now, obviously). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cliff and Heathcliff

28m · Published 06 Jul 12:24

In the early 1990s Cliff Richard invited Tim to write the lyrics for all the songs in his proposed musical Heathcliff. John Farrar was to compose the music. The resulting show failed to excite many of the critics, positively anyway, but the public thought otherwise and the show was a big hit. Tim’s thoughts on his venture into Bronte country with a true British music legend are revealed in episode 10 of his podcast Get Onto My Cloud. Please do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aida - part two

26m · Published 28 Jun 21:19

In response to staggering, well encouraging, interest in Get Onto My Cloud episode eight, about Tim's musical with Sir Elton John, Aida, episode nine features three more songs from the show sung by the Broadway stars Heather Headley, Adam Pascal and Sherie Rene Scott, and some more background about the show's creation - including the composer and and lyricist’s failure to turn up and collect their Tonys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aida - part one

29m · Published 22 Jun 08:31

In 1996 Tim and Elton, following their success with The Lion King movie, embarked upon the creation of an original Broadway show entitled Aida, which Verdi had had a go at 125 years earlier. Despite trials and tribulations, the show made it to Broadway four years later and ran for four and a half years, earning them both Tonys for best score, and has since played in more than 25 countries. Featuring the extraordinary voices of Heather Headley and Sir Elton himself, Get Onto My Cloud 8 tells just part of the story of this unusual and highly original show. More Aida no doubt in podcasts to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesus Christ Superstar - the early days

27m · Published 15 Jun 09:17

50 years ago the unknown pairing of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice recorded the first ever version of their rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. They had wanted to introduce the work on stage but no theatrical producers wanted to know. Thus forced to make a cast album before the show, they unintentionally discovered a new way to launch a musical theatre project, and created a work that was much more in tune with a younger audience than would otherwise have been the case. Tim chats about this and the management and record company teams that helped them get Superstar off the ground. The episode features Murray Head and Yvonne Elliman and even a failed combo entitled Tim Rice and the Webber Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starmania

28m · Published 08 Jun 08:00

In 1989 Tim was invited to translate the most successful French musical ever to have played in France. No – not Les Miserables. Unfortunately. Although his adaptation of Starmania and its songs failed to extend the show’s fame to foreign parts, his work on the musical led to some of the most fascinating and unusual recordings of his career, featuring Tom Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Ronnie Spector, Celine Dion and Bros among others. In episode six of Get Onto My Cloud Tim tells his story of Starmania. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beauty and Aladdin

26m · Published 01 Jun 06:45

The great composer Alan Menken has won more Oscars (8) than anyone else alive today. Tim has worked with him on several projects, including Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. In this podcast he reveals how he stepped into the late Howard Ashman’s shoes, and plays the original demo of Aladdin’s A Whole New World - which features some lyrics that did not make it into the movie. He also talks about the new songs he wrote with Alan for Beauty and the Beast both on Broadway and more recently for the recent live action remake. All in 21 minutes or so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coat of not Very Many Colours

26m · Published 25 May 09:52

Tim recounts writing of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the first ever public performance of the then 20-minute work at Colet Court School in March 1968. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elton and Eldorado

26m · Published 18 May 15:31

Tim, having come to the realisation that he has written more than 40 songs with Sir Elton John, plays three of their lesser-known collaborations and chats about the animated movie The Road To El Dorado, for which they wrote the score, including an Elton duet featuring Randy Newman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get Onto My Cloud: The Tim Rice Podcast has 72 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 33:55:25. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 6th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 25th, 2024 05:10.