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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s son Nicholas has died following a battle with abdomen most cancers. Nicholas’ household shared the information of his passing at 43 years previous in an announcement. Nicholas was the theater icon’s second youngster and oldest son. “I am shattered to have to announce that my beloved elder son Nick died a few hours ago in Basingstoke Hospital,” Andrew stated in an announcement to PEOPLE journal on Saturday, March 25. “His whole family is gathered together and we are all totally bereft. Thank you for all your thoughts during this difficult time,” the 75 yr previous additionally stated.
Nicholas was Andrew’s second youngster from his first marriage to Sarah Hugill. The pair additionally had an older daughter Imogen. The pair divorced in 1983, after 12 years of marriage. Find out extra about Andrew’s late son right here.
1. Nicholas was additionally a composer
Nicholas took after his dad in some ways. Most notably, Nicholas appeared to inherit his father’s musical ear, and he composed a variety of totally different works of his personal. His two most notable theatrical works have been a 2016 adaptation of The Little Prince and 2017’s Fat Friends: The Musical.
2. He was a producer for a lot of of his dad’s tasks
Outside of his personal compositions, Nicholas was additionally a report producer and plenty of of his largest tasks concerned his dad’s works. He was a producer on his dad’s 2021 album Symphonic Suites, which featured a number of the composer’s items from Evita, Phantom of the Opera, and Sunset Boulevard, per Discogs. He was additionally a producer for the Cinderella forged album from that very same yr.
3. He married Polly Wiltshire in 2018
Nick is survived by his spouse Polly Wiltshire, who he wed in 2018. Polly additionally has a musical background, as she’s an extremely proficient viola participant. She has carried out on a number of the items that her husband has produced and a wide selection of various albums and musical theater performances through the years, per AllMusic.
4. He scored a variety of totally different movie tasks
Outside of musicals, Nick has additionally been capable of rating a couple of totally different motion pictures. Besides a couple of totally different shorts, he was additionally the composer for six episodes of the BBC drama Love, Lies and Records, and he composed the music for the film The Last Bus, per IMDb.
5. Andrew missed the opening of ‘Bad Cinderella’ whereas his son was receiving therapy
After Nicholas had been hospitalized for most cancers, his dad launched an announcement sharing that he wouldn’t be capable of attend a few of his opening performances to be along with his son. “I am absolutely devastated to say that my eldest son Nick is critically ill. As my friends and family know, he has been fighting gastric cancer for the last 18 months and Nick is now hospitalised,” he informed BroadwayWorld. “I therefore have not been able to attend the recent previews of Bad Cinderella and as things stand, I will not be able to cheer on its wonderful cast, crew and orchestra on Opening Night this Thursday.”