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Deadline reports:

Andrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled his new West End and Broadway musical: a magical romance called The Illusionist, directed by Sunset Boulevard’s Jamie Lloyd.

During a private audience at his penthouse office adjacent to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of six theatres controlled through his LW Theatres group, the legendary composer of Phantom of the Opera and Evita gave Deadline an exclusive preview of three of the several numbers he has so far scored.

If the title sounds familiar, it’s because the production’s partially inspired by the 2006 movie of the same name written and directed by Neil Berger; which in turn was based on a novella called Eisenheim the Illusionist taken from The Barnum Museum, a book of fantasy-themed short stories by Steven Millhauser, a Pulitzer Prize-winning short story fiction writer.

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(WATCH) ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ and ‘Evita’ composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in his Covent Garden office with producer Michael Harrison.

The composer estimates that it takes three years to get his new musical ‘The Illusionist’ from page to stage.

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— Deadline (@DEADLINE) October 28, 2024