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" the EGOT honoree wrote Monday in the New York Times. "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."
The opinion piece reflected on his own career and his work with Broadway legend Hal Prince, who died at 91 in 2019, as well as "Phantom's" 35-year Broadway run.
