King Charles III heaped royal praise on Andrew Lloyd Webber when he first heard the composer play a piano version of the coronation anthem, telling the peer that the music gave him “goosebumps and tears.”
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Andrew Lloyd Webber detailed the last moments he spent with his son who died on hospice late last month from stomach cancer. "An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away," the "Phantom of the Opera" composer recalled telling his late son Nicholas "Nick" Lloyd Webber while he was on hospice in March, quoting English humorist P.G. Wodehouse. "I was speaking in P.G.
Wodehouse quotes with my eldest son, Nick, who was in hospice, where he was being treated for cancer just days ago," Webber continued in his op-ed for the New York Times Monday. He said Nick laughingly replied, "Here’s one for you." Webber then stated his son, who was also a composer, "had surmised that, after bulletins from New York, his father, as Wodehouse might have put it, was less than gruntled." "‘Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime?’" he added, continuing to quote Wodehouse. "‘Of course not.They come out after dark, up to no good.’" He then wrote poignantly, "We hugged and said our goodbyes." He continued in the op-ed, which was mainly about "The Phantom of the Opera" closing on Broadway after 35 years, "The next day, my son died.
Nothing's worse for a parent than the death of a child. In my bones I feel it wrong to write about the closing of "Phantom" or where Broadway’s going right now." Webber added, "This has been a season of goodbyes, personal and public." The "Jesus Christ Superstar" composer announced his son’s death at 43 on March 25, after an 18-month battle with gastric cancer. "I am shattered to have to announce that my beloved elder son Nick died a few hours ago in Basingstoke Hospital," he wrote on his social media at the time.
King Charles III heaped royal praise on Andrew Lloyd Webber when he first heard the composer play a piano version of the coronation anthem, telling the peer that the music gave him “goosebumps and tears.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed that King Charles wrote to him twice following the death of his son Nick. The 43-year-old record producer died in March after a protracted battle with gastric cancer and pneumonia. Speaking to The Telegraph, Lord Lloyd-Webber revealed he was not 'prepared for the loss' of his son and that the King had offered his personal condolences following the tragedy.
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New York Times just before the final Broadway show of Phantom of the Opera - and naturally, the "bereft" father dedicated it to his son. Saying that he felt "wrong in my bones" to be discussing Broadway days after his son's death, he lamented: "Nothing's worse for a parent than the death of a child. "He began his essay with the words: "An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.
Andrew Lloyd Webber on Sunday, as the curtain came down one final time for Broadway's .After a 35-year run and almost 14,000 shows, Broadway's longest-running show had its final performance at the Majestic Theatre. The show also marked Webber's first appearance since the death of his 43-year-old son, Nicholas, who died in March following a battle with cancer.Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber dedicates the final «Phantom of the Opera» Broadway performance to his son, Nick, who passed away last month.
After 35 years, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera took its final curtain call on Sunday night at the Majestic Theatre in New York. This was show No. 13,981 of the longest-running show in Broadway history and was dedicated by Lloyd Webber to his son Nicholas who died last month after a battle with gastric cancer.
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