Andrew Lloyd Webber will miss the opening night time of his new Broadway musical to are likely to his eldest son, who’s critically ailing with abdomen most cancers.
The British composer and theater impresario made the announcement in a press release despatched to HuffPost and different retailers Saturday.
“I’m completely devastated to say that my eldest son Nick is critically ailing,” he defined. “As my family and friends know, he has been preventing gastric most cancers for the final 18 months and Nick is now hospitalised.”
Because of his son’s hospitalization, Lloyd Webber mentioned he has been unable to attend preview performances for “Unhealthy Cinderella,” the musical he wrote with lyricist David Zippel. He received’t be current at New York’s Imperial Theatre for the present’s official opening night time, set for this Thursday.
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“We’re all praying that Nick will flip the nook,” he wrote. “He’s bravely preventing together with his indomitable humour, however in the meanwhile my place is with him and the household.”
Nicholas Lloyd Webber, 43, has adopted his well-known father with a profession in music. The Grammy nominee wrote the scores for the British collection “Love, Lies and Information,” in addition to the 2021 film “The Final Bus,” starring Phyllis Logan and Timothy Spall.
Along with Nicholas, Lloyd Webber additionally shares daughter Imogen, 46, together with his ex-wife Sarah Hugill. He and his present spouse, Madeleine Gurdon, are dad and mom 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 obtained an Emmy for producing NBC’s “Jesus Christ Celebrity Dwell In Live performance.”
“Unhealthy Cinderella” is Lloyd Webber’s first new musical to be carried out on Broadway because the 2015 stage adaptation of “College 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 towards conventional norms of magnificence and habits.
