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2003 recordingThree years later, lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. was brought in to help create an Americanised version of Tell Me on a Sunday for Broadway, with Bernadette Peters as ' the girl ', now renamed as Emma.

It opened on 18 September 1985 to mixed reviews.

Writing in the New York Post, Clive Barnes thought it was " the best thing that Lloyd Webber has written for the theater ," but Frank Rich of the New York Times was not impressed, observing that " empty material remains empty, no matter how talented those who perform it.

Emma is a completely synthetic, not to mention insulting, creation whom no performer could redeem.

" Peters went on to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, but the show failed to win Best Musical or Best Original Score.

Black, unimpressed that Peters had insisted on gathering background information about the character, later said he preferred the original London production and Webb's performance.