Andrew Lloyd Webber (pic) might know a factor or two about phantoms on Broadway, however he sought assist from the next energy to remove a poltergeist from his home.
The acclaimed composer behind the record-breaking musical Phantom Of The Opera has revealed that priests put an finish to the paranormal exercise at a property he owned within the tony Belgravia neighbourhood of London.
In a brand new interview with The Telegraph, Lloyd Webber was asked whether or not any of the theatres he owns are haunted. But whereas he admitted to by no means seeing a ghost in his work life, his home offered one thing otherworldly.
“I did have a house in Eaton Square which had a poltergeist,” the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award winner shared. “It would do things like take theatre scripts and put them in a neat pile in some obscure room.”
“In the end we had to get a priest to come and bless it, and it left,” he revealed.
According to parapsychological researcher Dr Neil Dagnall of Manchester Metropolitan University, a poltergeist is “a type of ghost or supernatural entity which are responsible for psychological and physical disturbance.”
The Phantom Of The Opera, thought-about Lloyd Webber’s biggest work to date, centres on a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. Based on Gaston Leroux’s basic 1910 novel of the identical identify, the present first opened on the West End in 1986.
In April 2023, the Tony Award-winning manufacturing ended its history-making 35-year run at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre after 13,981 performances. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
