‘Cats’ composer Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed that his son Nicholas has been hospitalized due to gastric cancer, prompting him to miss the New York opening of his musical ‘Bad Cinderella.’
Master of musicals and EGOT winner Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed over the weekend that his son Nicholas Lloyd Webber, 43, has been hospitalized after battling stomach cancer for more than a year.
The 74-year-old composer behind the smash Broadway musicals “Cats,” “Evita” and “The Phantom of the Opera” said that he is “absolutely devastated” to say that his eldest son is “critically ill,” according to a statement obtained Saturday by Playbill.
“As my friends and family know, he has been fighting gastric cancer for the last 18 months and Nick is now hospitalized,” the father of five said.
Due to his son’s illness, the Grammy Legend has been unable to oversee the rest of previews for his newest Broadway musical “Bad Cinderella” and will miss the updated fairy tale’s opening night on Thursday when it’s set to make its New York debut at the Imperial Theatre.
