Andrew Lloyd Webber
The 'I Can't Sing' musical has amended its script so that a joke about Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't appear.
The legendary theatre impresario went to see an early run-through of the West End show - which is based on ITV talent show 'The X Factor' - at the London Palladium in central London, which he owns, and executives decided to drop a line which mocks his recent production 'Stephen Ward' so that he isn't offended.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "They didn't want to run the risk of upsetting him. After all, he does own the Palladium. Lloyd Webber is blissfully unaware."
Andrew's latest work - which is based on the Profumo scandal of the 1960s - opened in December last year but is now set to close on March 29 after poor ticket sales, which he anticipated.
Speaking before its opening, he said: "I'm resigned now to the fact that anything I do probably nobody is going to like."
'I Can't Sing' - which was written by comedian Harry Hill, with the financial backing of 'X Factor' mogul Simon Cowell - also pokes fun at a number of past and present employees of the show, including Dermot O'Leary, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh and will open on March 26.
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