Andrew Lloyd Webber Dedicates Ultimate Broadway Efficiency of Phantom of the Opera to Late Son Nick – E! On-line

This curtain name was notably shifting for Andrew Lloyd Webber.

After 35 years on Broadway, his legendary musical The Phantom of the Opera held its ultimate present on the Majestic Theatre in New York. And on the April 16 occasion, Lloyd Webber paid tribute to his late son Nick, who died in March at age 43 following a battle with gastric most cancers.

As seen in a video shared by the official Phantom of the Opera on Broadway Instagram account, the composer informed the viewers, “I hope you will not thoughts if I dedicate this efficiency to my son Nick.”

Wanting again, Lloyd Webber and his ex-wife Sarah Brightman—who performed Christine within the authentic Broadway manufacturing of The Phantom of the Opera—recalled the function the musical performed in Nick’s life.

“When Andrew was writing it, he was proper there,” she shared whereas becoming a member of the solid on the stage, per the Associated Press. “So his son is with us. Nick, we love you very a lot.”