Andrew Lloyd Webber detailed the last moments he spent with his son who died on hospice late last month from stomach cancer. "An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away," the "Phantom of the Opera" composer recalled telling his late son Nicholas "Nick" Lloyd Webber while he was on hospice in March, quoting English humorist P.G.
Wodehouse. "I was speaking in P.G. Wodehouse quotes with my eldest son, Nick, who was in hospice, where he was being treated for cancer just days ago," Webber continued in his op-ed for the New York Times Monday.
He said Nick laughingly replied, "Here’s one for you." Webber then stated his son, who was also a composer, "had surmised that, after bulletins from New York, his father, as Wodehouse might have put it, was less than gruntled." "‘Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime?’" he added, continuing to quote Wodehouse. "‘Of course not.They come out after dark, up to no good.’" He then wrote poignantly, "We hugged and said our goodbyes." He continued in the op-ed, which was mainly about "The Phantom of the Opera" closing on Broadway after 35 years, "The next day, my son died.
Nothing's worse for a parent than the death of a child. In my bones I feel it wrong to write about the closing of "Phantom" or where Broadway’s going right now." Webber added, "This has been a season of goodbyes, personal and public." The "Jesus Christ Superstar" composer announced his son’s death at 43 on March 25, after an 18-month battle with gastric cancer. "I am shattered to have to announce that my beloved elder son Nick died a few hours ago in Basingstoke Hospital," he wrote on his social media at the time.
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