Theater review MASQUERADE Two hours with no intermission. Through Feb. 1 at Lee’s Art Shop, 218 W. 57th Street. When “The Phantom of the Opera” closed on Broadway in 2023 after a mirror-shattering 35-year run, everybody figured it would eventually come back. Nobody, however, foresaw that the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical to New … Read more
Theater review EVITA At the Palladium in London, England. LONDON — One of the most controversial sights on any professional stage right now isn’t even happening on the stage, per se. It takes place on the balcony outside the London Palladium during “Evita.” The unbelievable Rachel Zegler, as Eva Perón, leaves the venue for some … Read more
Multiple theater fans received medical help after they “fell ill” while standing in sweltering temperatures to see Rachel Zegler perform from an outdoor balcony during the hit West End production of “Evita.” Over 200 excited fans waited outside the London Palladium for hours in nearly 90-degree heat on Thursday to see Zegler, known for starring … Read more
It’s not easy being green. Of the nearly 1,000 celebrity caricatures on the walls of iconic theater-district institution Sardi’s, the one pilfered the most, oddly, is Kermit the Frog. “Kermit was stolen three times. And then we screwed him up to the wall,” Johnny Felidi, longtime maître d’ at the 100-year-old eatery, told The Post ahead … Read more
Here comes a tense Tony’s. Last year, many of the major winners were a cinch to predict. This time, well, the bars at Radio City Music Hall will be doing big business. Everybody’s freaking out. Producers have been like pollsters the past two weeks, interrogating the 840 Tony voters about who they’ve chosen. “Maybe Happy … Read more
In America, Andrew Lloyd Webber is best known as the composer of “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Evita,” “Cats” and “Sunset Boulevard,” among many other popular musicals. But in London, the Brit also has a reputation as a major West End theater owner. His LW Theatres counts six houses in its stable, including His Majesty’s … Read more
Much is unrecognizable about the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” at the St. James Theatre. The Norma Desmond is a former pop star, Nicole Scherzinger, the scenery has been swapped for a crisp giant screen and the costumes are a glossy black. But “Sunset” aficionados will also hear a difference: An entire … Read more
Andrew Lloyd Webber never thought he’d get Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway. “I always remember when she did ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ on a TV show some years ago,” Lloyd Webber told me during an hour-long sit-down. After her performance on that 2013 ITV special, “Cats” director Trevor Nunn excitedly rang him up and said, … Read more
“Sunset Boulevard” actress Grace Hodgett Young starred in a Broadway show before she ever saw one herself. After five months of performing six days a week in the musical The Post called “Broadway’s most exhilarating show in years,” she finally got to experience what it’s like to be in the audience on the Great White … Read more
Yes, it’s a revival of a 31-year-old musical that’s based on a 74-year-old black-and-white movie. And both are as fuzzily remembered by young audiences as the main character, Norma Desmond, is by cruel Hollywood. Theater review SUNSET BOULEVARD 2 hours and 35 minutes with one intermission. At the St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th Street. … Read more
It’s the Great Fright Way. Nicole Scherzinger shocked onlookers on West 44th Street Saturday night when she emerged from the St. James Theatre to sign autographs — barefoot, wearing a black gown and covered in fake blood. No, the former Pussycat Doll didn’t get into a fist fight in Shubert Alley — she’s the star … Read more
Theater review CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At PAC NYC, 251 Fulton Street. Through July 28. The hottest show in town is… “Cats”? Nobody’s said that about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s singing-dancing feline musical since around 1984. But four decades later and it’s true again. If you somehow find … Read more
A few years ago, a well-known Broadway producer stood outside the Carlyle Hotel — fuming. He had just won a coveted Tony Award, and yet the big shot was appalled to discover that he was not on the door list for the hottest afterparty in town. Meanwhile, the cast of his play was inside the … Read more
Sinéad O’Connor’s estate is demanding that former President Donald Trump stops playing the late singer’s music during his political rallies. “Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness and decency towards her fellow human beings,” the late singer’s estate and Chrysalis Records said in a joint … Read more
Get ready, Mr. DeMille. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Nicole Scherzinger, will arrive on Broadway later this year, a spokesman for the production said on Thursday. The sensational Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls will be back, alongside her talented West End co-stars: Tom Francis as Joe Gillis, Grace Hodgett-Young … Read more
That giant and crumbling Hollywood mansion on Sunset, home to the greatest star of all, has undergone a major renovation. Director Jamie Lloyd has ripped out the interior walls and chucked the lavish adornments. He’s emptied the closets of Gloria Swanson’s favorite outfits and installed high-tech cameras. The house is almost unrecognizable. Theater review 2 … Read more
The Lord was present on Wednesday when the cast and crew of Broadway’s “Bad Cinderella” learned their show is set to close on June 4 after just 33 previews and 85 performances. And I don’t mean Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. In a highly unusual move for the Great White Way, producer Christine Schwarzman handed out … Read more
Andrew Lloyd Webber is at the point of no return. Mayor Eric Adams presented the famous composer with a key to New York City Friday, ahead of this weekend’s curtain call for the “Phantom of the Opera” – Broadway’s longest-running show. “I grew up on his plays and the performances from ‘Phantom of the Opera.’ … Read more
Nicholas Lloyd Webber — a Grammy-nominated composer and record producer and the eldest son of famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — has died. He was 43. “I am shattered to have to announce that my beloved elder son Nick died a few hours ago in Basingstoke Hospital,” Andrew, 75, said in a statement Saturday to … Read more
What the ’ella? For a musical with the drunken confidence to slap the word “Bad” in front of a classic title, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Bad Cinderella,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, doesn’t have much in the way of ‘tude and swagger onstage. Or brain cells. Theater review 2 and a half hours with one intermission. … Read more