Andrew Lloyd Webber: Last News

By Greg Evans

Donny Osmond has said that a pregnant woman who went into labour during a musical he was performing in refused to leave the theatre until the show had finished.

During coronavirus lockdown, musical icon Andrew Lloyd Webber has made a number of his famous shows free to stream for punters at home.

Broadway fans around the world will soon be able to stream the works of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber on YouTube — for free.

By Greg Evans

Andrew Lloyd-Webber will make some of his hit musicals available to watch for free on YouTube during the coronavirus crisis.

We’ve just heard that a brand new YouTube channel titled The Shows Must Got On is set to be launched offering full theatre performances from some of the best productions online for free. Recent weeks have seen the temporary closure of theatres and their shows, meaning audiences around the world are spending more time at home than usual. The new YouTube Channel is set to provide theatre lovers with a West End and Broadway experience in their own homes, online for free. The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel is a great idea and is sure to be a massive hit with people in need of their musical theatre fix from Broadway, the West End and beyond whilst stuck at home during this difficult time.

Patti LuPone is giving another tour of her basement!

When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” opened in Greece this year, it marked the country’s most ambitious theater production to date, with an all-star cast plucked from London’s West End and a local production company that had dreamed of one day staging the hit musical.

Patti LuPone wants everyone to see her basement of memories.

Composers in isolation are taking their chops to Twitter with the idea of raising dough for furloughed Broadway workers.

Musical maestros Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lin-Manuel Miranda have taken part in a play-off.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is currently self-isolating amid the coronavirus outbreak – but that doesn’t mean he isn’t working.

Seth Rogen has live-tweeted his first viewing of Cats while in self-isolation.

The movie musical Cats on Monday dominated the Razzie Awards for the worst movies of 2019, winning six trophies including worst film, screenplay and director.The ceremony took place via video link on Monday after the live event in LA was cancelled amid coronavirus concerns.The results capped a dismal performance for the big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit stage show Cats.The six Razzie awards for Cats included supporting actor wins for James Corden and Rebel Wilson. Tom Hooper,won an Academy Award for directing the 2010 gem The King's Speech, was named worst director.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the French production company behind Netflix shows Narcos and F Is For Family, is in the early stages of adapting Gaston Leroux’s iconic novel The Phantom Of The Opera into a six-part TV miniseries.The project is being led out of Gaumont’s UK unit, which is working with writer Anthony Horowitz to reimagine Leroux’s gothic story about a disfigured composer, who lives in the depths of the Paris Opera House and falls for singer Christine Daae with tragic consequences.Deadline understands that the 1910 novel, rather than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash-hit musical, will form the backbone of Horowitz’s adaptation, in much the same way that Andrew Davies relied on Victor Hugo’s book to bring Les

small-talk of the night.Andrew Lloyd Webber told BBC Radio 4 Friday that a government official bizarrely suggested that West End musicals come back “without any singing” to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.“I don’t know what’s going to be in the report on theater that’s coming out on Monday,” the Tony-winning composer, 72, said of next week’s announcement.

coronavirus pandemic, and wants to ‘prove’ they can survive. The musical theatre legend, 72, is most famous for his work on some of the world’s most iconic musicals, and he is determined not to let theatres die out. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘[It’s been] absolutely awful to see everything that I’ve loved in my life gone. I want to prove that they can be open.‘What I hope to do is to be able to demonstrate to the Government what has happened in Korea, at The London Palladium, hopefully in the first week of July…‘We’re going to do a whole series of tests there to see whether or not it’s going to work.I really believe that we in theatre must be positive and use everything we can to demonstrate we can open.

Cats, and it sounds like he didn’t care too much for James Corden’s portrayal of Bustopher Jones.The show was adapted for the big screen last year, but despite its star-studded cast, including the likes of Corden, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and Judi Dench, it was pretty much slated. And now, Webber has hinted that he took issue with a few changes made to the musical for its movie version, seemingly referencing Corden’s big number as Bustopher Jones.

Remember December of last year, when the biggest story that the film industry was concerned with was the botched release of Tom Hooper’s “Cats?” Those were simpler times. Well, even though the world is seemingly coming apart and spiraling into a pit of awful, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the writer of the Broadway show, “Cats,” is here to remind us that the 2019 film is truly terrible.

'I Don’t Know How to Love Him' was originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in 1970