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Fast Chat Andrew Lloyd Webber
October 28, 2001
The pertinent quote from Andrew Lloyd Webber:
"Antonio Banderas wants to do "Phantom," but you'll have to ask Warner Bros. about that. They don't seem to get it, but they won't give the rights back to me. Unfortunately, our agreement has no time limit; I don't know how we got ourselves into that. As for "Cats," you'll have to ask Universal; we're trying to get those rights back, too. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay, and it has the cats absolutely nailed. I noticed various lines popped up in his "Shakespeare in Love." They were too good to waste."