The ‘pros’ came out only just ahead, but it was from that moment that I decided to tell my wife.”Īccording to Unmasked, “it was horrible year” for Lloyd Webber, who moved out of his house and saw his kids every third weekend. In the end I drew a line down a piece of paper and put on one side the ‘pros’ and on the other side the ‘cons’ of us trying to get free to marry. “We talked and talked about what we should do about it. “It wasn’t our fault that Sarah and I fell in love,” he told the Daily Express. The composer thought it best to release a press statement about their relationship.
With their professional relationship thriving, their personal lives became much more complicated when Lloyd Webber realized he was in love with Brightman, who is 13 years his junior, in March 1983. In the chapter titled “Miss Sarah Brightman,” Lloyd Webber details how his famous musical Phantom of the Opera came into existence - a show that brought both Lloyd Webber, the composer, and Brightman, who starred as Christine Daaé, great success. “What you are reading is the umpteenth rewrite.
“ is one of the parts of my life that I have been dreading writing about the most,” Lloyd Webber writes. Lloyd Webber also had two young children with his first wife (also named Sarah) of 12 years. What made the affair complicated? They first met during Brightman’s audition for Cats in the early 1980s, a time when they were both married.
The candid new memoir hits stands on Tuesday, the same month as the theatrical legend’s 70th birthday. 8, Rinaldi said.“I suppose it was inevitable that I was going to have a serious affair at some point,” writes composer Andrew Lloyd Webber of his romance with singer Sarah Brightman in his book Unmasked. Michael Crawford, Miss Brightman’s co-star, will remain with the musical through Oct. Miss Brightman will be replaced on June 6 by Patti Cohenour, who already plays the role of Christine, the young opera singer, for two performances each week. The actors union later changed its mind, allowing her to perform for six months. The $8 million musical, Broadway’s biggest hit in years, was almost scuttled when Actors Equity denied permission for Miss Brightman to appear in the New York production. She will appear with the orchestra in an evening of music by her husband Andrew Lloyd Webber, the man who also wrote ″Phantom.″ Miss Brightman, who was to have stayed with the lavish British musical until the beginning of July, has a concert engagement at the end of June with the Berlin Philharmonic, Philip Rinaldi, a spokesman for the show, said Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) _ ″The Phantom of the Opera″ is losing its leading lady, Sarah Brightman, on June 4, one month earlier than expected and one day before the Tonys are awarded.
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