Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed particulars of his newest musical mission.
While plans are very a lot afoot for Lloyd Webber’s subsequent present, The Illusionist, it appears that there’s extra in the pipeline from the Cats and Phantom of the Opera composer, who has simply celebrated the launch of Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway.
Speaking to leisure journalist Frank Dilella as half of press promotion for The Jellicle Ball (we’ve credited Dilella with the video beneath) about The Illusionist, Lloyd Webber revealed much more intrigue, saying: “The other one that I’m doing is the true story of the theft of the Mona Lisa. And it’s a true story about how the Mona Lisa disappeared for three years, roughly about 1910, and, ended up in Italy.”
The incident was the handiwork of one Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian decorator who gained insider data about the way to steal the famed Da Vinci portray from the Louvre after working there in the 1910s. The occasion was hailed as “the greatest art theft of the 20th century”, and Lloyd Webber’s preliminary reveal comes six months on from a really high-profile daytime theft at the identical museum.
Peruggia’s actions have been dropped at movie and TV on a quantity of events, together with in French movie On a volé la Joconde and German movie Der Raub der Mona Lisa. Interestingly, each The Illusionist and this incident are set round the identical couple of many years, as is the prologue scene in The Phantom of the Opera, and Love Never Dies.
As for when, who, the place and what type the musical could take, we’ll have to attend and see, as Lloyd Webber continues: “And, more than that, I can’t really tell you, for the simple reason that I am going away next week to write it.”
In the meantime, the composer has a lot to maintain him occupied – alongside work on The Illusionist, there are new stagings of Cats and Jesus Christ Superstar in London this summer time, Phantom’s fortieth anniversary this autumn and rumblings of a New York spell for a multi-award-winning manufacturing of Evita.
