Unreality TV (Free subscription) | yesterday
Music moghul, Andrew Lloyd Webber, is jetting back to the States next week for the grand finale of American Idol. Andrew mentored on the show just a few weeks ago and was a masive hit, drawing 24 million viewers. He will be back in time for Saturdays I’d Do Anything show on BBC One, and is [...]
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is the third of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hugely popular BBC1 talent search shows. After discovering Connie Fisher for Maria in The Sound Of Music, and Lee Mead for Joseph, both have gone on to spectacular success. We're down from 12 Nancy hopefuls to five. With the quarter-finals looming and so much at stake, it's not surprising that the pressure is beginning to tell: tears,...
The Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
LORD Lloyd-Webber is heading back across the pond — for the American Idol final
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
"Really Useful Holdings Limited - the parent organisation for Lloyd Webber's companies including the Really Useful Group, which operates his theatres and owns the copyrights to his musicals - has reported a total operating profit of £21.9 million, thanks in part to strong production income from copyright and rights exploitation as well as strong trading results from the theatres."...
thisislondon (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Trainer John Gosden has warned Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber that patience is the key to him having another hit on his hands in Oaks hopeful Dar Re Mi
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Trainer John Gosden has warned Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber that patience is the key to him having another hit on his hands in Oaks hopeful Dar Re Mi
The Stage (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful organisation has recorded profits of nearly £22 million for 2006/7 - more than doubling the level achieved in the previous year's accounts.
TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
You can't keep a good Connie Fisher down. Not content with winning the BBC's first musical/Andrew Lloyd Webber TV talent show (click here for coverage of his latest), How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? (remember that'), and making an award-winning success of her role as Maria in The Sound Of Music, Connie Fisher has landed her first-ever r
AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Back in March I blogged about the start of the BBC's new musical talent competition I'd Do Anything , which searches for a girl to play Nancy in a new U.K. stage production of Lionel Bart's Dickens-based musical Oliver! With a judging panel that includes Andrew Lloyd Webber and a selection process that combines the public vote with ALW's decisions, the original 12 finalists have...
Unreality TV (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
I thought she was never going to go! But tonight Scottish Ashley was booted off I’d Do Anything on BBC One. Ashley has faced harsh criticism from Andrew Lloyd Webber for weeks now, and I was surprised she lasted this far. I like Ashley's voice, and don't think she is as awful as the Lord implied. [...]
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
At least according to the main TV offerings. Last night it was a choice of becoming the next Nancy or Oliver for Andrew Lloyd Webber, or the next pop sensation for Simon Cowell. Everybody wants to be a star now. Who wants to star as an engineer, a plumber, or a teacher ? There are few drama productions now, because reality TV shows are cheaper to produce - after all the contestants...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The general buzz on American Idol this year has been that it's a dud. I disagree. Watching Andrew Lloyd Webber leer at young male talent is always entertaining. And I watch Ryan Seacrest with morbid fascination: how can someone be...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The hills are alive with the sound of cash tills ringing.
Londonist (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Dark Lord of Musical Theatre, funny faced " genius ", Andrew Lloyd Webber, last night scooped a Classical Brit for Outstanding Achievement in Music. Andrew (as he likes to be called on his website ), who was 60 this March, has been ubiquitous in the West End for 30 odd years. He was recently reinvented himself at Graham Norton's hands as 'The Lord' in his 3 BBC reality...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has been awarded the outstanding achievement prize at the Classical Brits.The West End impresario was presented with the award by ITV ...
