Simon Lee had been slated to work as musical supervisor for the Toronto production, the same role he served for Webber's British revival. (CBC)
Simon Lee, the longtime Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator charged with assault in Toronto on Sunday, has a problem of his own.
Webber’s London production company says it dropped the 46-year-old as musical supervisor for the Toronto run of The Sound of Music, still slated to begin in October.
Lee was one of three judges for Tuesday night’s CBC-TV’s reality competition How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Viewers were told that Lee’s absences for the last two episodes was for “personal reasons.”
Lee was arrested and charged with assault and forcible confinement after an incident at a Toronto hotel on Sunday morning. He was released on bail and is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 27.
The veteran British conductor, who has performed with top orchestras around the globe, has served as the musical director or supervisor on projects ranging from the opening ceremony of the 1998 Nagano Olympics to both theatre and film versions of Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar.
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OLD NEWS.
Yes, but it’s “BREAKING MARIA NEWS!”
(Sorry, just saw the “BREAKING SOLAR NEWS” caption on Newsworld…God(win) help us all!)
You mean the solar eclipse that the Chinese could have predicted five thousand years ago?
It’s so sad to witness WallyWorld and News Net sink into the same pit as CNN and Fox. The only TV “news” I watch is the Daily Show.
For real news I use the wires, but even they are going tabloid.
you want a prime time audience with over a million viewers?
follow simon lee around with a camera - the simon lee reality show
and you can get garth drabinski to produce it