Breaking Baz: UK Panto King Michael Harrison On How Andrew Lloyd Webber Put His Name In Lights, And William & Kate’s Family Night At Palladium
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: It’s quite something when Andrew Lloyd Webber, the West End’s biggest theater owner, taps you on the shoulder and says he has something to tell you.
Even more so when he leads you from the London Palladium‘s orchestra seats, up a couple flights of stairs where a beaming Madeleine Lloyd Webber is waiting to greet you, because they’ve designed a new lounge and dedicated it in your name.
That’s what happened to Michael Harrison, the 44-year-old producer behind Imelda Staunton’s triumph in Hello, Dolly! at the Palladium and her celebrated turn as Rose in a revival of Gypsy, the Sunset Boulevard now on Broadway starring Nicole Scherzinger, The Drifters Girl and countless other musicals, directing three pantomimes — one in his native Newcastle, Birmingham and the annual Palladium Pantomime, now in its ninth year with Robin Hood opening there tonight.
Plus he oversees 22 pantos the length and breadth of the UK. It’s a rare thing. And it happened to Harrison on Thursday night.
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