The ‘I Can’t Sing’ musical has been forced to remove a joke about Andrew Lloyd Webber from its script.
The legendary theatre impresario went to see an early run-through of the West End show – which is based on ITV talent show ‘The X Factor’ – at the London Palladium in central London, which he owns, and executives decided to drop a line which mocks his recent production ‘Stephen Ward’ so as to not offend him.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "They didn’t want to run the risk of upsetting him. After all, he does own the Palladium. Lloyd Webber is blissfully unaware."
Andrew’s latest work – which is based on the Profumo scandal of the 1960s – opened in December last year but is now set to close on March 29 after poor ticket sales, which he anticipated.
Speaking before its opening, he said: "I’m resigned now to the fact that anything I do probably nobody is going to like."
‘I Can’t Sing’ – which was written by comedian Harry Hill, with the financial backing of ‘X Factor’ mogul Simon Cowell – also pokes fun at a number of past and present employees of the show, including Dermot O’Leary, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh and will open on March 26.
I Can’t Sing cuts Andrew Lloyd Webber joke
