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Musical-loving social distancers can get their Andrew Lloyd Webber fixes with a new YouTube channel devoted to the composer’s work. The free channel, called The Shows Must Go On, will unspool a different ALW filmed musical ever Friday, starting with this week’s debut offering Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoa…

Two days ago Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Twitter page asked socially-isolated followers which of the composer’s songs they’d most like to hear Sir Andrew play. The answer was clear – “All I Ask Of You” from The Phantom of the Opera – but another response was more surprising: Lin-Manuel Miranda responded with a performance…

The atrocious response from audiences and critics toward the feature adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats has no doubt upset execs at Universal and Working Title this weekend. The movie wound up opening below its $10M-$15M projections to $6.5M, and while you can’t expect much business-wise from adult-skewing…

Get ready, internet haters and cranky critics who have been gunning for Cats, lying in wait since the first revelation of how it was made, because like it or not, the long-awaited movie version finally is upon us, and for this Cat and Cats fan it is a welcome treat this holiday season. Judging by the fevered reaction…

Still wondering what Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, James Corden and Judi Dench look like as felines? The new trailer for Cats has your name on it. Set for a Christmastime release, the Universal Pictures film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical, directed by Tom Hooper, features a large roster of big-name…

Andrew Lloyd Webber casually announced that his contemporary musical version of Cinderella, with a book by The Crown actress/Killing Eve writer Emerald Fennell, will arrive on Broadway next year. During an interview on UK’s Good Morning Britain (watch it below) this week, the Cats composer, asked about his unrelenting…

Andrew Lloyd Webber is developing a contemporary musical stage version of Cinderella, Deadline has confirmed. The prolific composer is collaborating with playwright/screenwriter Tom MacRae and writer/Call the Midwife actress Emerald Fennell. The planned Cinderella would update the classic fairy tale to feature a…

NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert was a big winner on night two of the Creative Arts Emmys and as each win was announced, there was an outpour of love and praise for the late great Craig Zadan, who served as executive producer. The live musical telecast based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway smash is…

Universal has officially dated Working Title’s feature film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats for December 20, 2019. Wicked, Uni’s other Broadway stage musical feature adaptation, originally occupied this date, but now the pic is being moved to accommodate its production schedule. Despite director Tom…

Refresh for updates Bette Midler, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hugh Jackman and Barbra Streisand have added their remembrances to the continuing roster of condolences for Craig Zadan, the producer who ushered in a new era of musicals for a television audience. Zadan, whose credits include televised stagings of the…

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s six theaters in London’s West End are getting a collective re-brand. The venue division of Lloyd Webber’s company, until now known as Really Useful Theatres, has been renamed LW Theatres. The name change is designed to “end any confusion” between the theatre/venue division and the Really Useful Gr…

Broadway’s School of Rock – The Musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black film comedy, will end its run at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 20, bringing a finale to an engagement of more than three years. When it closes, School of Rock, which began previews November 9, 2015, and opened…