Andrew Lloyd Webber: I can't afford to do many more musicals As a complete musical, with the production and everything coming together, I think I'm as pleased with this as anything I've done in a long time. It's an amazing piece of work. Whether it's a commercial piece of work is another question. He added: "I haven't had a hit in 20 years. I've written six musicals in that time. I'm resigned now to the fact that anything I do probably nobody is going to like. Lord Lloyd Webber's, who has enjoyed huge success in the past with shows including Phantom of the Opera and Evita, said it was "extremely difficult" to know why a show works and why it doesn't. "With hindsight I can see Phantom of the Opera is a great commercial subject," he said. I didn't think of it as that. Lord Lloyd Webber's new show charts the rise and "ultimate disgrace" of Stephen Ward, described in the show as a "Friend to film stars, spies, models, government ministers and aristocrats" in the "increasingly permissive lifestyle of London's elite in the early 1960s."