![]() ![]() ("Wittering's Final Innings") Vincent suddenly speaks up and says he will take Wittering's place. The Earl laments the bad day for Headingley. Headingley CC needs 10 more runs to win, but there is no one to take Wittering's place alongside Donald. Wittering has been injured and can no longer continue in the game. Vincent and Emma's conversation is cut off by a scream. Vincent turns to Emma for sympathy, but she accuses him of deceiving her and getting her into trouble with her father. The Earl is a powerful member of the Jockey Club, and bans Vincent from all racing events for life. Vincent tries to speak, but the Earl turns his attention, and wrath, onto him. Because of Emma's gambling debts, the Earl has lost his reputation and is in financial distress. ![]() The Earl, however, lets fly at Emma and Vincent. ("Fools Like Me")ĭonald and the cricketers return to the game after the interval, but Donald ignores Emma. She blames herself, and doesn't see how anyone will ever love her again. Not only has she lost all of her money, but she has lost Donald as well. ![]() ("All I Ask of Life")ĭuring the tea interval, Emma returns, dejected, feeling Vincent has deceived her. As he lies dazed on the ground, lines from various people and various moments of the game bombard him – Winston, Emma, Vincent, his team. But he has been hit a few times during the song, and is suddenly levelled. He's hurt and truly torn – does he stay and bat to help his team win and lose Emma, or does he leave and try to get her back? In the end, sportsmanship prevails: Donald cannot let his team down. While Donald is batting, he sees Emma leave with Vincent. Packer, sings about how wonderful it is to be able to hit batsmen when they miss – and he injures several batsmen during the course of the song. ("The Sport of Kings") The opposing team's fast bowler, Winston B. Emma is reluctant at first, but decides that maybe Vincent is right, and runs off with him. Vincent, who is devoted to horse races, overhears Emma, and offers his own rather self-interested solution: leaving for the races in lieu of the cricket match. She feels that she will be forever secondary in Donald's eyes until he retires from cricket. Emma loves Donald, but she thinks he neglects her somewhat for his cricket playing, and she wants more time together. And at the moment, even though he is Emma's father, the Earl is more approving of Donald than of Emma, because he feels his daughter is not supportive enough of Donald's cricketing. ("The Summer Game")Įmma intends to marry Headingley player Donald Hobbs. The Earl and the cricketers sing the praises of cricket. The game is watched by the Earl of Headingley, his daughter Emma Kirkstall-Lane, and Vincent St. The show begins during a match of Headingley Cricket Club. He and Lloyd Webber created a 30-minute tongue-in-cheek "musicalette" for the Queen.Īs with Lloyd Webber and Rice's previous musicals, Cricket is sung-through, with little spoken dialogue. Rice used actual cricket-related names for his characters, boosting the light-hearted feeling of the piece. 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 – and Rice had a particular passion for this new comic musical about England's national sport. Prince Edward, the Queen's youngest son, commissioned a short musical from Lloyd Webber and Rice for his mother's 60th birthday celebration. 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. No commercial recording has been made.Ĭricket is, to date, the final original musical written by the team of Lloyd Webber and Rice.Īfter 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 theatrical partnership. It was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday celebration, and was first performed at Windsor Castle on 18 June 1986.Ī lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek show running 30 minutes, its plot was set against the backdrop of the semi-fictional Headingley Cricket Club, whose star player, Donald, is torn between his team and his girlfriend Emma – as she decides to abandon watching cricket for what appears to be a far more exciting life at the race track with the caddish Vincent.Īfter its premiere for the Queen, as well as a pair of follow-up performances, the musical was shelved several tunes were later re-used for the musicals Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard. Cricket, also called Cricket (Hearts and Wickets), is a short musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and book by Tim Rice.
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