Andrew Lloyd Webber has ‘withdrawn’ his music from a production he was working on with Tim Rice, who says the pair may never work together again.
The pair are renowned for the creation of some of musical theatre’s biggest hits such as Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (first performed in 1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) and Evita (1978).
They have collaborated only occasionally since — writing the song You Must Love Me for the 1996 film of Evita, starring Madonna, and with Rice contributing ‘additional lyrics’ for Lloyd Webber’s 2011 musical The Wizard Of Oz.
And last year, they unexpectedly reunited to create for Sherlock Holmes
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