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EXCLUSIVE: Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu will direct a new film version of the famed Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Amazon Studios. Chu will reunite with his In The Heights producing partner Scott Sanders to develop and shoot the musical…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Peacock has landed for development, The Show Must Go On, an hourlong murder mystery anthology, which would mark the first time Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera musical is used as part of a TV series. The high-profile project comes from the Zoey’s Extraordinary Playb…

Longtime friends and collaborators Antonio Banderas and Andrew Lloyd Webber are joining forces under the banner of new company Amigos Para Siempre (APS), aimed at producing theatre, musicals and live entertainment shows, including some of Webber's best-loved works, for major Spanish-speaking markets. Under the…

EXCLUSIVE: Two shows are being lined up to replace Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella musical which closes after a disappointing, short-lived run in London's West End. News of Cinderella's closure became a contentious affair, causing members of the actors union Equity to picket outside the Gillian Lynne Theatre. Cast…

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Connor, the British director of troubled West End musical Cinderella, has told friends of his "anger" at how the closure announcement of his show was handled by Andrew Lloyd Webber and his executives. Connor had not been told his show would be closing. He'd been on a professional assignment in…

UPDATED with quotes, 7:42 AM: Members of the UK’s major theater unions have spent the past hour protesting against the sudden closing of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella run in London’s West End and have warned of more to come. Actors union Equity organized the protest outside the Gillian Lynne Theatre after multiple…

UPDATED with clarification about when company was told: Composer and London theatre owner Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera) informed cast and creatives Sunday that his Cinderella musical will close at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Covent Garden, London on June 12 after a troubled run of less than a year. The…

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has hired former MGM TV executive Charles Farmer to the newly created role of CEO. The move and the simultaneously announced naming of Really Useful’s David Chance to the role of Non-Executive Chairman are designed, the company said, to increase the reach and impact of Lloyd…

Berlin Pushing On Despite Rotterdam Online Move The Berlin International Film Festival is still planned to take place in person after the Dutch lockdown forced the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to move online for a second consecutive year. A spokesperson for Berlin confirmed to Deadline that the event…

UPDATE, July 23 The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cinderella will restart performances in London next month following what proved to be a temporary halt rather than the “closure” initially suggested by the composer. In a Tweet this morning, the production said, “We are pleased to announce that performances of Cinderella…

Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced the indefinite closure of his new West End musical Cinderella a day before its official opening due to what the composer angrily called “the blunt instrument that is the Government’s isolation guidance” regarding Covid-19. In a tweet Monday morning, Webber said the musical, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Singer Sarah Brightman’s first livestream Christmas concert next month will include a reunion with her former husband and partner-in-theater Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two will perform the relatively obscure Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice song “Christmas Dream.” Brightman and Webber were married from 1984-1990, with…