If yesterday was a Terrible Tuesday in Canada Square, then today the Lord of music has tried to make it all better. In a completely bizarre turn of events, Andrew Lloyd Webber has pledged a pair of free tickets to see The Sound of Music or Joseph in the West End to any banker made redundant. If you've got a P45 issued after 1 September you can show up at the box office of......

Famed musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has come up with a catchy tune or two in his time; annoyingly catchy, some of them. After attending his 'birthday' party (six months too late, as the man himself pointed out) in Hyde Park last night, we still have several of his bloody "Ohrwürme" swimming around in our grey matter. Beware! The Phantom of the Operaaaaaaaaah!. Ahem....

The Dark Lord of Musical Theatre, funny faced "genius", Andrew Lloyd Webber, last night scooped a Classical Brit for Outstanding Achievement in Music. Andrew (as he likes to be called on his website), who was 60 this March, has been ubiquitous in the West End for 30 odd years. He was recently reinvented himself at Graham Norton's hands as 'The Lord' in his 3 BBC reality TV shows casting lead roles in revivals of......

Uh, media exposure, that is. Prostitutes are, like, all over the place this week. First, a prostitution ring takes down the Sheriff of Wall Street. Then the BBC kicks off its newest musical talent competition, I’d Do Anything, in which contestants compete for the chance to play Nancy, hooker with a heart of gold, in a West End revival of the musical Oliver! Londonist cites the two examples and declares it a cultural phenomenon.......

Last night London's Luvvieland came together for their annual award ceremony, the Oliviers. Having received 11 nominations across 10 categories, it looked like being Hairspray's night. And Londonist is happy to confirm what we already knew: the show is a deserved winner of the Best New Musical accolade. In addition, Leanne Jones (Best Actress in a Musical) rocks as the optimistic teen, Tracy Turnblad; Tracie Bennett (Best Supporting Role in a Musical) is similarly......

Summer Strallen, who played the similarly named Summer Shaw on teen soap Hollyoaks, has just made her debut in The Sound of Music at London's Palladium Theatre. If, like us, you enjoy a bit of a Hollyoaks omnibus on a hungover Sunday, you'll be familiar with Summer's journey from soap star to West End star. For those of you who are Hollyoaks impaired, it's actually all a bit confusing. Strallen joined the Hollyoaks cast......

People have started buying tickets for Di-Aid. Other people want to buy tickets for Di-Aid. Touts have now set up base camp on eBay creating a kind of virtual Dodo island where the weak minded and musically challenged are being clubbed in the face with inflated prices: Barry Osborn, from Hythe in Kent, thought he was in with a good chance as he works from home. "I hit that button just seconds after 9am......

Some crimes are more than just crimes - the Dreyfus affair is one example that comes readily to mind. In modern Britain, no murder has had more of an impact than that of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 (was it really 13 years ago already?), the black teenager killed by racists, whose murder triggered an inquiry that found institutionalised racism Stephen's murder will never really go away, but it is brought back into the spotlight......

God forgive him... Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing a new production of beloved musical The Sound of Music to the London Palladium in the West End this November. He hasn't trashed the original music by Richard Rodgers nor the lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein - we're quite certain God himself has enforced some sort of holy, invisible protective shield around classics such as "Climb Every Mountain" and "A Few of My Favourite Things." But he......

Andrew Lloyd Webber has been looking for just the right actress to play Maria in a new stage version of The Sound of Music for over four years now. Searching high and low, hither and thither (even offering the role to Scarlett Johansson – a brilliant piece of casting - who sadly turned it down) the “theatre impresario” is in talks to turn up the search for his leading lady with one of the......

Londonist hates Andrew Lloyd-Webber for what he did to the Phantom of The Opera story, so we were going to go on about that for a bit this week. But then we remembered that Pete Bradshaw would be reviewing the film version, so we thought 'why bother?', we couldn't do it better than grouchy old Pete: "Surrender to-o-o the music of the ni-i-i-i-ght. Or, to put it another way, surrender to Andrew Lloyd Webber.......