Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of “Cats” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” adds a royal commission to his resume
His Majesty wanted a song. Or not so much a song as a composition — of a sort fit for, well, a king. For the day of his coronation, in Westminster Abbey, on May 6 in the year of our Lord 2023.
To a Yank’s way of thinking, it is quite the thing for a Broadway composer to turn court composer, to have one’s notes ring out in the storied nave where the royal British line has been consecrated for a thousand years. And hearing them in an Anglican service along with music by the likes of George Handel and Edward Elgar.Lloyd Webber has a more businesslike attitude about the whole thing.
It’s unfair to conclude that Lloyd Webber is not excited by this opportunity. He’s so even-keeled and obliging in conversation, in an English let’s-keep-our-wits-about-us sort of way, that you can’t really tell how much of a charge he gets out of this. It’s not as if Lloyd Webber is a close confidant of the king or anything — although this is not the composer’s first go-round with Charles III on matters of serious musicianship.
“The truth of the matter is ‘Phantom’ does not need to close in New York at all,” Lloyd Webber said, suddenly allowing his pique to surface. Though his company, Really Useful Group, has in the past produced a number of his musicals — and owns six theaters in London’s West End, including the highly prized Theatre Royal Drury Lane — “Phantom” is the purview of producer Cameron Mackintosh. Lloyd Webber claims the marketing of the show had become old hat, and allowed interest to atrophy.
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