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Good morning, Netizens…
If you truly are an aficionado of music, not just a person who limits themselves to just one genre or another, the news late yesterday that Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer might hit you like a brick aside your head.
Well known around the world for such hits as “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Cats”, Phantom of the Opera”, and “Evita,” has won seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Oscar. In 2006, he was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor. Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and named to Britain’s House of Lords in 1997.
According to his publicist, Webber is in the early stages of cancer and, as such, is likely to recover and return to work by years’ end.
His latest creation, called “Love Never Dies”, a sequel to his musical “Phantom of the Opera”, is slated to begin on Broadway in the New Year.
Dave
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JeanieSpokane on October 28 at 12:11 p.m.
Yes, I LOVE all of Webber’s music and it greatly saddens me that he has received this diagnosis. Hopefully - since it is in the early stages, he will be back amongst us very, very soon!
I have no favorite - I just love them all. My greatest thrill would be to actually go to Broadway, instead of settling for “Best of Broadway” here in Spokane - although every Webber production I have watched has been excellent!