C: Is for Cancer

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the award-winning composer and producer of more than a dozen musicals including "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats," has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. It is in the very early stages. Andrew is now undergoing treatment and expects to be fully back at work before the end of the year. They released no further details.
In April, the Sunday Times of London included Lloyd Webber, 61, on its annual Rich list, which ranks the wealthiest people in Britain.
Lloyd Webber, who lives in Kensington, was the highest-ranking entertainer on the list. He tied for 52nd place, with about $1.1 billion.


British composer and theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

A statement released by Lloyd Webber's spokeswoman on Sunday says the composer is in the early stages of the disease and "expects to be fully back at work before the end of the year."

The 61-year-old musical theatre whiz recently announced plans for a sequel to Phantom of the Opera — a play that has been seen by more than 50 million people, in more than two dozen countries.

Called Love Never Dies and starring Canadian Ramin Karimloo in the title role, the new show is set to launch in London's West End in March and then on Broadway in November.

Lloyd Webber's other globally successful productions include Cats, Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Not one to sit on his laurels, he's had three successful BBC reality series which cast the leads for his theatre musicals: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, Any Dream Will Do and Oliver!

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? was also a CBC series in 2008.

In 2010, he's set to launch a BBC show to find Dorothy and Toto for a new theatrical production of The Wizard of Oz and that is an over the rainbow F.A.C.T.