Andrew Lloyd Webber and Michael Harrison form partnership to develop new musicals

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It has been announced that Andrew Lloyd Webber will join forces with producer Michael Harrison to find and develop new musicals and create new productions from the composer’s back catalogue under new company, Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals (or LWH Musicals).

Harrison has previously staged Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat under Michael Harrison Entertainment, as well as the ‘Palladium Panto’ at the iconic London Palladium, which is owned by LW Theatres.

Lloyd Webber said: “I am excited to announce that I am entering into a production partnership with Michael Harrison. Michael is easily one of the world’s leading young theatre producers. Our partnership will build on our relationship, which has already produced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium.

“On a personal level, I am thrilled. I will now concentrate on composing, knowing that I have a first-rate producer to collaborate with in the future.”

Harrison said: “Andrew has written some of the greatest musicals of all time and I look forward to producing new interpretations of these shows as well as his new work and other musicals by writers Andrew and I admire.

Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group and Michael Harrison Entertainment will continue to operate outside of the new company.