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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s spectacular new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat arrived in Sydney last week.Image: SuppliedTold through song, with the help of The Narrator, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the story of Jacob’s favourite son, Joseph and his 11 brothers. Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers.

The long-running The Phantom of the Opera was once again Broadway’s highest grossing show last week, taking in a mighty $2,483,532 for the week ending Jan. 29, outpacing runners-up Funny Girl ($1,872,862) and Hamilton ($1,871,921) by a noticeable margin.

SINGER Taylor Swift’s cat is worth £81million, according to a list of the world’s richest pets. Olivia Benson, a Scottish Fold, has racked up millions of social media likes and starred in the video for Taylor’s hit Blank Space. One picture of the pampered kitty on 33-year-old Taylor’s Instagram from April 2020 received more than two million likes.

Last night viewers were on the edge of their seats during the latest nail-biting instalment of the psychological BBC show, The Traitors.

EXCLUSIVE: Susan Storman, the celebrated Broadway director and choreographer, has revealed that an acclaimed UK revival of musical comedy Crazy for You, which features show-stopping numbers from the George and Ira Gershwin songbook, will transfer from the Chichester Festival Theater into Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatres-owned Gillian Lynne Theatre for a strictly limited 30-week West End season from June 24. Opening night is July 3.

When Jessie Buckley first read Sarah Polley’s script for Women Talking, it bothered her. There they were, a bunch of women sitting in a barn in the back-blocks of Canada, talking about what they were going to do with their lives: they wouldn’t let her go. “There was so much unknown within it, which was the best part of it, because it kept nagging me,” she says. “Even after I’d read the original book and met Sarah, it was something that kept just returning. I was like, ‘Get out! Get out of my head!’”

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes, the Oscar and Tony award-winning director, has chosen three London theater stars – Michael Balogun (National Theatre Live: Death of England-Delroy), Hadley Fraser (Donmar Theatre’s Coriolanus), and Nigel Lindsay (Chichester Festival Theatre’s Woman In Mind) to bring his much-garlanded production of The Lehman Trilogy back into the West End. That’s following triumphant runs at the UK’s National Theatre, the Park Avenue Armory, and Broadway, and a phenomenal 16-week, sold-out run at London’s Piccadilly Theatre in 2019.

Sydney Catholic Schools’ production of School of Rock has left parents clutching their pearls at the show’s “adult themes,” forcing the school to apologise. The show, which took place at the Qudos Bank Arena, was billed as “extraordinary” and a “musical extravaganza” by Sydney Catholic Schools. A casting call video from earlier this year, featuring Sydney Catholic Schools Executive Director Tony Farley, teased, “Our School of Rock arena spectacular will be on a size and scale never seen before in our system of schools.“4000 performers from our 150 schools will perform this worldwide hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and be part of one of the largest musicals ever seen in the City of Sydney.”However, the “extravaganza” was overshadowed by an uproar from parents over a brief scene involving a same-sex couple, played by two male students. According to Sydney Morning Herald, Parents also complained about the language, disrespect for authority, and a scene where the children “prayed to the God of Rock.” The brief scene with a same-sex couple, however, was the transgression that really caused a stir. “Concerns have included language used in the show that is clearly unacceptable in a school or family setting, adult themes that are alluded to in the show which are in no way endorsed by Sydney Catholic Schools, and disrespect for authority that caused some concern.“Sydney Catholic Schools sincerely apologises and takes responsibility for any elements which caused offence and are undertaking a full review of all aspects of the production which will ensure that a situation such as this will not occur again.”School of Rock is the first time students from across the Sydney Catholic Schools system put on a show of this magnitude. ©

Gloria Gaynor and Mario Cantone revealed their identities after performing on The Masked Singer on Wednesday during Andrew Lloyd Webber night on the Fox show.The 62-year-old Sex And The City star was the first celebrity to be eliminated after performing as Maize in a giant corn stalk costume.Mario said he came on the show to prove to everyone that he was a singer. Double elimination: Gloria Gaynor was one of two celebrities who revealed their identities after performing on Wednesday on The Masked Singer on Fox'I want people to know that I sing,' Mario said.

UPDATE: FOX aired the latest episode – “Andrew Lloyd Webber Night” – of The Masked Singer on Wednesday (October 19) after it was postponed last week due to a baseball game.

UPDATE: FOX aired the latest episode – “Andrew Lloyd Webber Night” – of The Masked Singer on Wednesday (October 19) after it was postponed last week due to a baseball game.

Jack Black has received praise for an interaction with Abraham, a terminally ill 15-year-old whose favourite movie is School of Rock. Black stars in the film as a musician who poses as a substitute teacher, forming a band with the young students.Footage of Black meeting the fan was shared to viral aggregator Upworthy last Friday (October 14), and was filmed while Black was taking part in the Layla Paige and Friends Walk for TrinityKids Care.

Broadway box office held steady at $28,621,480 last week as a slate of new productions began or continued previews (Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo filled more than 90% of their seats), MJ and Leopoldstadt set house records and The Phantom of the Opera was once again standing room only as the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical heads toward its Feb. 18 closing.

Robo Girl is making her first appearance on The Masked Singer!

Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Cinderella musical is finally heading to Broadway – and with a new title!

coming to Broadway after all — and, like the main character, she’s getting an extreme makeover.First they’re ditching the title that confused Brits because they associate the princess with Christmas pantomimes and would have stumped Americans because they’d expect Rodgers and Hammerstein or Disney. For its run at the Imperial Theatre beginning Feb. 17, 2023 (one day before Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” shoves the old chandelier in a storage unit), the show has been renamed “Bad Cinderella.” The only other time Lloyd Webber gave a different moniker to a show after a major West End run was when he changed “Jeeves” to “By Jeeves.” But a “By” ain’t a “Bad.” Tell us what you think of the title “Bad Cinderella” in the comments, readers!There will also be a brand-new star.

NICOLE Scherzinger, 44, has shown off her peachy bum on the beach while wearing a VERY tiny bikini on the beach. The beauty took to social media to share a string of stunning snaps while donning a black thong bikini as she soaked up the sun in Portugal. Nicole was a vision in her bikini as she wore her brunette locks down and smiled.

Queen Elizabeth II.The former Take That star paid his respects to her following the monarch’s death last week and ahead of her state funeral today. The singer and TV show judge said he had a “tear in my eye” when he heard the news of the monarch's death. Gary - who first met the Queen in 1993 at the Royal Variety Performance - said she “did such a wonderful job and was such a wonderful example to us all".He said that the pair may have met up with one another as many as 30 times over the last 30 years. Gary spoke to The Sun about his track Sing, which he co-wrote alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, which formed part of an “impromptu concert” for the monarch.The concert, said the hitmaker, was an intimate gathering where he performed Sing for the Queen around the time of her birthday that same year. He said that the track was one of the Queen’s “favourite songs”. Gary told the publication that she had a way of putting people at ease around her, and wasn’t as intimidating as her title would suggest. He said: “She was so good at putting everyone at ease, she never let anyone feel intimidated.”Gary explained her focus during the Platinum Jubilee concert earlier this year was for everyone else to have a good time, rather than the focus being on her alone. Gary was propelled to mainstream success as part of Nineties boy band Take That. He also has previous experience judging music talent contests, having been a judge on The X Factor from 2011 to 2013.However, the Rule The World singer spoke in the past about feeling completely out of his comfort zone when having met the Queen on one occasion. The pop star had been asked to mastermind Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee concert in 2012 which included

first reported on Friday that the composer’s “The Phantom of the Opera” would close on Broadway this winter after 35 years, the show took in $2 million in ticket sales by 8 p.m., producer Cameron Mackintosh told The Post.“The hills are alive with the sound of the music of the night!,” Mackintosh said on a phone call from London.The producer is pleased the box office boom and outpouring of affection from fans around the world, even though The Post scuttled his announcement plans (the news was set to drop next week.) Still, “Phantom” is definitely coming to an end in New York on Feb. 18, shortly after a lavish bash for its 35th anniversary.“Everyone thinks these shows can go on forever, but you can’t run a big show at these margins anymore,” the producer said, adding that the pre-pandemic running cost of “Phantom,” $800,000, has ballooned to $950,000 today.

Rumors are swirling that The Phantom of the Opera is closing on Broadway.

flop movie version, starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum, was released in 2004.Lloyd Webber also put on an unsuccessful sequel, called “Love Never Dies,” in London in 2010 that toured but never made it to Broadway.“Phantom” continues to play in London at Her Majesty’s Theatre — soon to be renamed His Majesty’s Theatre following the death of Queen Elizabeth II — and recently had some of its original staging revised.That could be a clue to the musical’s future. While this “Phantom” will close for good in December, it would not be shocking to see it return in a much cheaper iteration in a few years.