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Arts feature

Tim Rice: How to get ahead in musicals

My accident-prone journey from Evita to From Here to Eternity

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

Like almost everyone else in the insane world of musical theatre, I don’t know how to create a hit. This hasn’t prevented me from contributing to, even originating, some. Most of these successes have come about by happy accident and could so easily have been disasters or stillborn but for matters or events beyond my control or totally unexpected.

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From Here to Eternity is previewing at the Shaftesbury Theatre and opens on 23 October. Tim Rice has written musicals with, among others, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Disney Corporation and Björn Alvaeus and Benny Andersson of Abba.

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