Andrew Lloyd Webber Reveals Details for New Musical and Immersive PHANTOM Off-Broadway

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed details for his latest musical and discussed plans for an immersive production of Phantom of the Opera Off-Broadway.

Lloyd Webber says that his next project is scoring a new musical based on a film, which he hopes will open in 2026. The musical will be co-created by Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio and is set in Vienna in 1900.

“It will have moments nobody has seen done on a stage before,” says Lloyd Webber. In July, BroadwayWorld reported that Michael Harrison is producing the musical. Terrio wrote the screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the follow-up to Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and is credited as co-writer for the 2017 film Justice League, alongside Joss Whedon for the theatrical cut and Zack Snyder and Will Beall for the 2021 director's cut. He completed another screenplay, A Foreigner, based on an article by the journalist David Grann. Terrio also co-wrote the script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with director J. J. Abrams.

Lloyd Webber also confirmed that there are also now plans for an off-Broadway immersive production of Phantom of the Opera next year.  “I’m totally re-energised,” he told the Times. “Theatre is having a total renaissance.”

He noted that the recently reimagined off-Broadway production of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, inspired by New York City ballroom culture,  “was a surprise," and he would like to bring to London.

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