Andrew Lloyd Webber Recalls Trump's Broadway Acquiescence

A small opening-night favor.

It’s a forgotten footnote to the Donald Trump drumbeat. In November 2015, Broadway musical School of Rock teased previews with a guerrilla poster of the aspiring presidential candidate, done up Andy Warhol quadrangle-style. As New York Post columnist Cindy Adams noted at the time, the framing credits for the illustration were beyond bizarre: Scandalios Fine Art, on loan from the Golden Thistle Foundation.

Now comes another, directly related footnote. On the most recent Graham Norton Show, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber recalled that Trump expressed a desire to attend the musical’s opening night at the Winter Garden Theatre, Dec.

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