United Kingdom, July 15 -- Andrew Lloyd Webber has warned Broadway is in "dire danger" and needs to be saved.

The 78-year-old composer has spoken out following the news Cats: The Jellicle Ball - a reimagined version of his globally popular musical Cats - is to close after just four months in New York's theatre district, despite a largely positive reception and expressed his despair at how hard it is for new productions to do well and break through into the mainstream.

In a series of posts on X, he wrote: "Ever since I was a child, I've wanted to write musicals. Although I'm British, Broadway was what musicals meant to me.

"To a boy growing up in Britain, Broadway was a distant, thrilling place where the greatest musical theatre in the ...