In Any Dream Will Do – My Pad Met Webber, singer, actor and songwriter André Schwartz explores his relationship with all that is Andrew Lloyd Webber, since encountering his work for the first time at the age of 12 when he saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Schwartz was the first Phantom in a South African production of Lloyd Webber’s classic The Phantom of the Opera.
Any Dream Will Do – My Pad Met Webber is a blend of narrative and songs such as Any Dream will Do, You Must Love Me, Music of the Night, No Matter What, Memory and Send in the Clowns. The latter is the only song in the production that is not written by Lloyd Webber.
“I marvel at the insolence of young artists who think they have owned the right to interpret this song. Their waltz with time is brimming with life. Whereas we, from whom youth has deserted, realise the ultimate clown”, says Schwartz, who has confronted a motor neurone disease diagnosis.
The show, which runs from Wednesday May 22 to Sunday May 26, is directed by Matthew Counihan. Musical direction is by Bryan Schimmel, with Dawid Boverhoff on piano and Mauritz Lotz on guitar.
Tickets are available from Webtickets or the Theatre On The Bay box-office at 021 438 3301.
