#andrew-lloyd-webber

#andrew-lloyd-webber

Four years ago the musical theatre titan was at low ebb: declaring he'd rather go to prison than allow his extremely mid new musical Cinderella to open with social distancing was not be any stretch of the imagination his finest hour. There has been no new musical since then, although him and Tim Rice have written the songs for this year's Birmingham Rep Christmas production, and a full scale new one called The Illusionist is now in the works.

Much is unrecognizable about the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard" at the St. James Theatre, featuring radical changes to the score and production.

Erivo's casting was met with predictable anger from religious zealots, with many denouncing the casting of a queer Black woman as a 'siege' against Christianity.