
“The airline wrote back and said, ‘Can you prove that you really need him?’ And I said ‘Yes, just see what Hollywood did to my musical ‘Cats.” Then the approval came back with a note saying, ‘No doctor’s report required.'”Īt the Broadway breakfast, Lloyd Webber assured the audience that “Cats” didn’t completely deter him from the idea of adapting any of his other musicals for the big screen. “I wrote off and said I needed him with me at all times because I’m emotionally damaged and I must have this therapy dog,” Lloyd Webber previously shared. In a recent Variety cover story, Lloyd Webber revealed he bought a puppy because he was “emotionally damaged.” The dog is able to fly with him as an emotional support animal.
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The “other great consequence” of making the movie version of “Cats,” he told the crowd, “is my little Havanese puppy” who, like Lloyd Webber, loves going to the theater. I did enjoy working with her very, very, very much.” “It wasn’t just a lyric thrown together at all. “One of the things I was quite intrigued by, she got to the essence of what T.S. Eliot’s poetry collection “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.”

Talk about being a pro.” He elaborated, saying Swift took the time to dig into the source material. “We sat around the piano, I played her a melody,” Lloyd Webber recalled. It was nominated for best original song at the Golden Globes and best song written for visual media at the Grammys - essentially the film’s only awards attention that wasn’t bestowed by the Razzies. Swift wrote the lyrics to “Beautiful Ghosts” over music created by Lloyd Webber. “It was probably the enjoyable experience.”


“It was one of the few enjoyable experiences ,” Lloyd Webber said.
