Ryan's Reviews

When Thomas Stearns Eliot died on 4 January, 1965, he had left behind a body of work that included poetry: Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), Poems (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ariel Poems (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939), Four Quartets (1945), and more. Plays: Sweeney Agonistes (1926), The Rock (1934), Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1949), The Confidential Clerk (1953) and The Elder Statesman (1958). Non-fiction: Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920), Selected Essay, 1917-1932 (1932), A Choice of Kipling’s Verse (1941), The Frontiers of Criticism (1956), and more. Thank you, Baron Wikipedia. By May 1981, composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber had written scores for musicals including: The Likes of Us (1965, unproduced until 2005), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Jeeves (1975), and Evita (1976). Three of them ...

With the help of the local second hand stores and other stores, I was able to complete the remainder (or at least most) of my Disney Feature Animation collection. That includes *breathe, we’re going to do this now* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), Saludos Amigos (1942), The Three Caballeros (1944), Make Mine Music (1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Melody Time (1948), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959), 101 Dalmatians (1961), The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), Robin Hood (1973), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977, and I will resist mentioning Dad's joke about Winnie the Pooh), The Rescuers (1977), The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Black Cauldron (1985), The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Oliver & Company (1988), The Little Mermaid (1...

Apologies for my absence from this blog! It's frustrating because I don't want to muck anything up, the info that I'm putting across, and you've really got to concentrate. But dammit, I want to get it right. Mistakes will happen though, and for that I apologize. My aim with this blog is to approach everything from a positive angle. What's the point in that, you're probably wondering, if you're reviewing something? I just feel like I want to take a positive approach. This blog is also a way of writing information down that I'm probably going to forget someday, and I'd like to keep a record of it. So there you have it, Ryan's Reviews, and my latest post! Re: the title, I finally found a copy of the original cast album of Tim Rice's 1983 musical with Stephen Oliver (an Australian composer), "Blondel". The two songs I knew from this were "The Least of my Troubles" and "Running Back for More". It took me a few years b...