ALW has completed his next musical

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Starlight Express may be hurtling its way back to London, but that doesn’t mean that Andrew Lloyd Webber isn’t already on track to premiere a new musical.

Speaking to The Telegraph this weekend, composer Lloyd Webber revealed that he had completed his next “big” show – “though its subject and title remain under wraps”.

Rumblings earlier this year on tabloids suggested that Lloyd Webber would be teaming up again with Tim Rice to produce tunes for a Sherlock Holmes-themed show, though that may be a separate project. Last year, Lloyd Webber also discussed doing an immersive theatre production, believing “the next thing I do may go a different way.”

In the meantime, he has Starlight Express to grapple with. Lloyd Webber revealed to The Telegraph that the show is in some ways dedicated to his late son Nicholas Lloyd Webber, who died last spring. One of the prompts for the musical in the 1980s was a trip to the US, where Nicholas Lloyd Webber saw a steam train for the first time and was awed: “I’ll never forget Nick’s face when he saw a steam train coming.”

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I agree a lot with both Ermengarde and Jordan, and I didn't completely hate Bad Cinderella (I actually liked a lot of the music, though not the ones that were promoted as singles). What he really needs is just to work with a real director (or at this point anyone that's not Lawrence Connor) for a new work and I'd be excited to see it. I know he's complained about costs in the past (particularly for Broadway), but I'd also love to see a big lavish musical reminiscent of the megamusical period from him.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "...write an actual opera. I'd like to hear it. Any opera house would commission him, and in opera the composer is king."

I'd love this.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is a genius. Unfortunately since Tim Rice he refuses to work with other geniuses. And it really, really drags him down.

Sharpie3 said: "Worse Cinderella"



You beat me to the punch.

If it's Sherlock Holmes, he fills a century-old gap in "definitive stage Sherlock Holmes show..." as long as the show is at least mediocre if not good or great.

I have a feeling we're about to see a definitive stage Dracula shortly, because the still-popular Balderston/Deane version is public domain, and next year their revised script for the film version is public domain as well. The one knock against the stage show has always been that the film's Act 1 in Dracula's Castle is SO MUCH BETTER than the rest of the film (and the entirety of the stage play), so finally inserting that as a canonical portion of the stage show will make that basically unbeatable.

I'd love to see ALW do any gothic tale. His music suits such pieces perfectly.

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Not a fan of his public persona, but I hope that it is a big hit and makes everybody a lot of money.

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