Andrew Lloyd Webber has introduced that he can be absent from the opening evening of his new Broadway musical Unhealthy Cinderella as a result of his eldest son is “critically sick” with gastric most cancers.
The Phantom of the Opera composer shared an announcement with The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday (March 18), revealing that his 43-year-old son, Grammy-nominated composer and document producer Nicholas Lloyd Webber, has been preventing most cancers for the final 18 months and is presently hospitalized.
“We’re all praying that Nick will flip the nook,” Andrew Lloyd Webber stated within the assertion. “He’s bravely preventing together with his indomitable humour, however in the intervening time my place is with him and the household.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber was scheduled to attend the opening evening of Unhealthy Cinderella, which he composed, on Thursday (March 23) at New York Metropolis’s Imperial Theatre. The brand new musical is a reimagining of Cinderella, which ran in London from 2021 to 2022.
“I won’t be able to cheer on its great solid, crew and orchestra on Opening Night time,” the Oscar-winning composer stated.
Andrew Lloyd Webber additionally famous that he has “not been in a position to attend the current previews” of Unhealthy Cinderella due to his son’s sickness.
Nicholas Lloyd Webber is thought scoring the 2017 BBC One drama Love, Lies and Information, together with the 2021 film The Final Bus. He was additionally the co-producer of the unique solid album for his father’s Cinderella in 2021, which earned him a Grammy nomination for finest musical theater album.
