Like Cat Deeley and Nigel Lythgoe and Victoria Beckham before him, the pale, weird, mincy Brit has dreams of becoming the next dentistry-deficient American reality icon, and has signed with the William Morris Agency, his first Hollywood talent agent, to try and sell an American reality show in which he'd find a young'un to star in one of his musicals.
Sounds like You're The One That I Want, NBC's gigantic flopperoo (free advice to producers: next time, think twice about hiring Billy Bush) -- but Lloyd Webber had the idea first, with two hit shows in the UK that found stars for productions of his crappy The Sound of Music and Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (paging Donnie Osmond!).
"I went to William Morris so I wouldn't be stymied by that abysmal Grease program, which was a complete rip-off of my idea," LW says, splashing us with his G&T.
He says his TV show encouraged young kids to pay triple-digit musical theatre tickets and increased homosexuality by 30% in the UK.
"Frankly, it made theatre cool and that's something I'd love to do that in America. The end game can be bigger than American Idol. Here, we'll be creating a production of a show that will have enormous legs, whether it goes to Broadway or stadium tours, which is the way I originally did Jesus Christ Superstar.
LW says he's already talked with Tim Rice, his pale, weird, mincy and fat collaborator, about a Joseph show here.
His new agent will also rep LW for lecture tours, movie versions of his musicals like Sunset Boulevard and a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, and guest spots on Kathy Griffin's reality show and Entourage.