some of the top artists in the world. It's extraordinary. We want to play 200 arenas in America and they are planning the route for the U.S. tour already. Then, hopefully, there will be a world tour, going through the O2 in England. I'm very excited about it."

Lloyd Webber won Best Original Score Tony Awards for his work on Evita, Cats and Sunset Boulevard. His other Broadway credits include The Woman in White, Bombay Dreams, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love and Starlight Express, among others. A Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will arrive later this season.on the other. He discerns a major current of homoeroticism that runs through both Islamic life and letters and through Orientalism (in the old, academic meaning and Said’s gloss on that term). There may have existed an enduring European fantasy about homosexual life in the Middle East and North Africa, but Boone shows that there was also a reality behind such dreams and nightmares: sex and the aesthetic representation of same-sex experiences.

Boone’s work is especially rich in material about Persia and Ottoman Turkey. Indeed, he explores a large archive of writing about indigenous male same-sex attraction in the Middle East, as well as in early voyagers’ accounts of the region. He has unearthed a large corpus of miniature paintings with blatantly homoerotic themes, including stunning images of men