British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson isn't the only prominent Briton cautiously optimistic about the leadership of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. On Saturday's Graham Norton Show, the host asked composer Andrew Lloyd Webber if he knew Trump, and Webber said yes. "Well, if you've been around in New York, and you've been kind of vaguely in the scene in New York, it's quite hard not to know the president-elect," he explained. Norton noted that Trump has a connection to The School of Rock, Webber's newest Broadway musical, and the composer said yes, kind of, then told a rather nice story about Trump.
"He wanted to come to the opening of The School of Rock, and actually I persuaded him not to come," Webber said. "When we opened over a year ago now — and I really don't think, I genuinely wonder whether he really thought any of this was going to happen, I mean, I don't know — but anyway, I sort of said, 'Look, the kids, it's their night, you're so famous, don't you think it would be a good idea perhaps to just to?— and he was good about it. And he said, 'No, I won't come.'"
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