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    As 'Phantom of the Opera' closes, Andrew Lloyd Webber says goodbye to son and show

    by Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times Apr 18, 2023 3 minutes
    From left, Sarah Brightman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh and Laird Mackintosh as the Phantom, take a bow at the end of the final performance of the musical "Phantom of the Opera" at the Majestic Theater in New York on Sunday, April 16, 2023.

    After dedicating the final Broadway performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" to his late son Nicholas Lloyd Webber on Sunday, renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber publicly said goodbye to his eldest son and to the show in an essay about the future of Broadway.

    "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". "But I'll try. I owe everything to my love of Broadway and its glorious legacy of musicals. So everything I write comes from my childhood dream that I'd make it to the Great White Way."

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