Lloyd Webber recalled an early idea director Harold Prince had for the musical's premiere London run: "In the dress rehearsal we had, Hal Prince, the great legendary director Hal Prince, had this idea … Some of you may know that in Phantom, we go up to the roof, and he had this idea that pigeons would fly from the roof over the audience. In the dress rehearsal, they made—shall we put it this way, a mess! Yeah. The pigeons left."
Lloyd Webber also discussed his transition from Cats to dogs, the genesis of his new musical Bad Cinderella, and played a few of his most memorable tunes for the audience. Watch the full interview above.
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Go Inside The Closing Performance of The Phantom of The Opera on Broadway
The new jukebox musical featuring the songs of Huey Lewis and the News follows a Chicagoan whose failed band leads to him returning to corporate America.
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