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''Cricket'', also called ''Cricket (Hearts and Wickets)'', is a short musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday celebration, and was first performed at Windsor Castle on 18 June 1986. Several of the tunes from the show were later used for ''Aspects of Love'', so the work was dropped from public performance or recording.〔(''Cricket'' – The Musical )〕〔Citron, Stephen. (''Sondheim and Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical.'' ) Oxford University Press, 2001. p. 355.〕 ''Cricket'' was the last original musical Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote together. ==History== After their collaboration on ''Evita'' in 1978, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice took what was originally intended to be a temporary break from their illustrious theatrical partnership. They did not work together again until the request for this ''pièce d'occasion'' came up, and ''Cricket'' ended up being their final original musical. Prince Edward, the Queen's youngest son, commissioned a short musical from Lloyd Webber and Rice for his mother's 60th birthday celebration.〔Snelson, John. (''Andrew Lloyd Webber'' ). Yale University Press, 2009. p. 223.〕 The game of cricket was Tim Rice's favourite pastime – he had a cricket field on the grounds of his home and had his own cricket team〔Citron, Stephen. ''Sondheim and Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical.'' Oxford University Press, 2001. p. 193〕 – and Rice had a particular passion for this new comic musical about England's national sport. Rice used actual cricket-related names for his characters, boosting the light-hearted feeling of the piece. He and Lloyd Webber created a 25-minute tongue-in-cheek "musicalette" for the Queen. ''Cricket'' is entirely sung-through, with no spoken dialogue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cricket (musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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