Article: NOT EVEN ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER IS IMMUNE TO BROADWAY'S FUNK.(Spotlight)

Byline: Michael Kuchwara Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Cats may be ``now and forever,'' but the recent musicals of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber have not proven to be as permanent.

With the imminent closings of Sunset Boulevard in New York and London and the collapse of his newest effort, Whistle Down the Wind, after a Washington tryout, it hasn't been the best of times for the composer who led the British invasion of Broadway in the early 1980s.

Because Lloyd Webber has been so successful for so long - OK, let's not talk about the financially disastrous Broadway run of Aspects of Love - his recent setbacks have seemed all the more shocking. But if ...

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