Andrew Lloyd Webber Reveals Details for New Musical and Immersive PHANTOM Off-Broadway
The new musical will be co-created by Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio and is set in Vienna in 1900.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed details for his latest musical and discussed plans for an immersive production of Phantom of the Opera Off-Broadway.
Lloyd Webber says that his next project is scoring a new musical based on a film, which he hopes will open in 2026. The musical will be co-created by Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio and is set in Vienna in 1900.
“It will have moments nobody has seen done on a stage before,” says Lloyd Webber. In July, BroadwayWorld reported that Michael Harrison is producing the musical. Terrio wrote the screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the follow-up to Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and is credited as co-writer for the 2017 film Justice League, alongside Joss Whedon for the theatrical cut and Zack Snyder and Will Beall for the 2021 director's cut. He completed another screenplay, A Foreigner, based on an article by the journalist David Grann. Terrio also co-wrote the script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with director J. J. Abrams.
Lloyd Webber also confirmed that there are also now plans for an off-Broadway immersive production of Phantom of the Opera next year. “I’m totally re-energised,” he told the Times. “Theatre is having a total renaissance.”
He noted that the recently reimagined off-Broadway production of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, inspired by New York City ballroom culture, “was a surprise," and he would like to bring to London.
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