Andrew Lloyd Webber will miss the opening evening of his new Broadway musical to are likely to his eldest son, who’s critically in poor health with abdomen most cancers.
The British composer and theater impresario made the announcement in an announcement despatched to HuffPost and different retailers Saturday.
“I am absolutely devastated to say that my eldest son Nick is critically ill,” he defined. “As my friends and family know, he has been fighting gastric cancer for the last 18 months and Nick is now hospitalised.”
Due to his son’s hospitalization, Lloyd Webber mentioned he has been unable to attend preview performances for “Bad Cinderella,” the musical he wrote with lyricist David Zippel. He gained’t be current at New York’s Imperial Theatre for the present’s official opening evening, set for this Thursday.
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“We are all praying that Nick will turn the corner,” he wrote. “He is bravely fighting with his indomitable humour, but at the moment my place is with him and the family.”
Nicholas Lloyd Webber, 43, has adopted his well-known father with a profession in music. The Grammy nominee wrote the scores for the British sequence “Love, Lies and Records,” in addition to the 2021 film “The Last Bus,” starring Phyllis Logan and Timothy Spall.
In addition to Nicholas, Lloyd Webber additionally shares daughter Imogen, 46, together with his ex-wife Sarah Hugill. He and his present spouse, Madeleine Gurdon, are mother and father to sons Alastair, 30, and William, 29, together with daughter Isabella, 26.
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Beloved throughout generations of Broadway followers for musicals like “Evita” and “Phantom of the Opera,” Lloyd Webber was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 for his contribution to theater and was named a lord about 4 years later. He joined the ranks of EGOT winners in 2018 when he acquired an Emmy for producing NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert.”
“Bad Cinderella” is Lloyd Webber’s first new musical to be carried out on Broadway for the reason that 2015 stage adaptation of “School of Rock.” It’s billed as a recent musical tackle the traditional fairy story and stars actor and singer Linedy Genao as a nonconformist heroine who rebels in opposition to conventional norms of magnificence and habits.
