On stage in New York a few days earlier, Lloyd Webber reflected on "Phantom"'s record-breaking 35-year run, and was asked why he thinks the show has resonated for so long. Correspondent Seth Doane and Andrew Lloyd Webber on the stage of the Majestic Theatre, days before "The Phantom of the Opera" held its 13,981st (and final) performance. He dedicated the final Broadway performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" to his late son. "I mean, it's very hard to put into words, but I think about it a lot. "Well, I'm not sure I dealt with it very well," he replied. "I don't think it really has completely sunk in yet," said Andrew.ĭoane asked, "How do you deal with something like that?" Nicholas Lloyd Webber, a Grammy-nominated composer, died in March after battling gastric cancer. "No, because my son, 'cause he died, you know, on the day after it opened." Bring eye plugs." But the composer said he hadn't read any of the reviews. It got some pretty scathing notices The New York Times wrote, "Bring earplugs. Lloyd Webber said, "I'm completely baffled how a show in London could have probably had the best reviews of my career, what the nerve it touched in New York which made everybody feel so bad about it?" It closed prematurely this past week, ending his decades-long run with a show on Broadway. There were no Tony nominations this year for Lloyd Webber's newest production, "Bad Cinderella' - a playful, "alternative" twist on the fairy tale. There was that moment when sort of 30 people would come on stage, 'cause they're all 'producers.'" "But it needs to be addressed, you know, because it is a bit silly. "Somebody puts $20,000 into a play or something, and then a play wins best play, and they can say, 'Well, I'm a Tony Award-winning producer.'"ĭoane said, "The Tony Award people are not gonna like that comment." Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. The man who helped define the Broadway blockbuster also says what he wants: "You can get a Tony Award for putting up a bit of money and saying you're a producer," he said. "So, what's the secret? How did you avoid being put in that box?"
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