Atlanta, GA 12/28/2010 10:16:30 PM
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is to become a US TV star.
The composer - best known for writing musicals such as 'Cats' and
'Evita' and appearing on stage star search shows 'Any Dream Will Do'
and 'Over the Rainbow' - will say goodbye to British television after
getting offers from American network bosses.
The 62-year-old Oscar winner’s first programme will see him look for an
unknown to play Dorothy in a new adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz'.
He said: “I don’t know if I’ll do any more in the UK. But a couple of
the networks in the US have wanted to build something around what I do
on TV, and I think with the ‘Wizard of Oz’ something is definitely
going to happen there."
Lord Webber is looking forward to taking on Simon Cowell’s ‘X Factor’ when it launches Stateside in 2011.
He added: "The ‘X Factor’ juggernaut is going to be huge there next
year, but other networks are looking for something to go against it.
Once we’ve found a Dorothy in the US, my instinct is to open the show
in Kansas.”
Kansas is where the story of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ is set.
