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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Unfiltered Opinion of "Cats" Movie
Andrew Lloyd Webber is sharing an update connected his eldest son's health.
The composer confirmed that helium volition miss retired connected the March 23 opening nighttime for his caller Broadway show, Bad Cinderella, amid his lad Nicholas Lloyd Webber's conflict with tummy cancer.
"I americium perfectly devastated to accidental that my eldest lad Nick is critically ill," Andrew said successful a connection March 18. "As my friends and household know, helium has been warring gastric crab for the past 18 months and Nick is present hospitalized."
"I truthful person not been capable to be the caller previews of Bad Cinderella," the 74-year-old continued. "As things stand, I volition not beryllium capable to cheer connected its fantastic cast, unit and orchestra connected Opening Night this Thursday."
However, Andrew noted that the family is praying Nick, 43, "will crook the corner."
He added, "He is bravely warring with his indomitable humor, but astatine the infinitesimal my spot is with him and the family."
Over the years, Nick, whose ma is Andrew's archetypal woman Sarah Hugill, has followed successful his father's philharmonic footsteps and has worked arsenic a composer and producer connected the BBC One bid Love, Lies and Records. The father-son duo besides earned a 2021 Grammy information for Best Musical Theater Album with their enactment connected the West End amusement Cinderella (which is known arsenic Bad Cinderella connected Broadway).
Despite their caller collaborations, Nick has admitted that erstwhile helium was conscionable starting retired successful euphony helium tried to professionally region himself from his legendary composer father.
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"For a agelong time, I dropped the Lloyd bit—to spot what the absorption would be," he told The Telegraph successful 2011. "I got immoderate worldly connected the radio, truthful I thought, ‘OK, I'm evidently not a implicit idiot.' Then I thought, ‘Hang on, if different radical are prepared to enactment with maine without the surname, past possibly I should conscionable get connected with it.'"
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