Lloyd Webber 'wants Boyle for musical'

Lloyd Webber 'wants Boyle for musical'
Lloyd Webber 'wants Boyle for musical' (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Andrew Lloyd Webber is keen to cast Britain's Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle in a West End musical, according to the papers. The Sun reports that Lloyd Webber - who will be appearing on stage at Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest with UK performer Jade Ewen - bumped into Boyle recently at a recording studio in London. And he admitted to the paper he has a role in mind for the 47-year-old, from West Lothian. "She is a terrific sport and she's a great fan of my shows," Lloyd Webber said. "If she wanted to be in one, well it could happen. It would have to be the right role. Maybe I know what it could be, but I'm not telling. She's got a great future." However the impresario admitted he has not seen her audition on Britain's Got Talent where she wowed the judges with I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables . Since the audition was first shown Boyle has become a global star with millions of people viewing her performance on YouTube, and a string of TV appearances in the US. She is among the favourites to win the final of the ITV1 talent show.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.