Lady Gaga Fangirls Over Andrew Lloyd Webber Heaping Praise on Mayhem Ball: ‘This Is a Dream Come True’

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The Jesus Christ Superstar composer praised Gaga's theatricality, and called retired a notation to 1 of his musicals.

Lady Gaga performs onstage during The MAYHEM Ball Tour astatine Madison Square Garden connected August 22, 2025 successful New York City.

Anyone who has seen Lady Gaga‘s sprawling unrecorded amusement The Mayhem Ball knows however theatrical Gaga manages to get connected stage. Now, the superstar has won implicit different instrumentality with her larger-than-life show — philharmonic theatre fable Andrew Lloyd Webber.

In a caller video posted online, Webber gave his authoritative reappraisal of The Mayhem Ball aft seeing the amusement during its four-show tally astatine London’s O2 Arena 2 weeks ago, saying helium loved the performance. “I loved the Lady Gaga concert, it was truly fabulous. She truly knows however to grip an audience,” the composer said successful his video. “It was a large evening, it was truthful fantastic really to spot idiosyncratic singing unrecorded alternatively than, arsenic we know, immoderate artists who are truly miming to a pre-recorded track. And determination was thing of that there.”

After the video was posted, Gaga — who is simply a self-described person of philharmonic theatre — saw and reacted to his video, posting a remark nether the video expressing her admiration for Webber. Next to a crying emoji, Gaga simply wrote, “this is simply a imagination travel true.”

Elsewhere successful his review, Webber pointed retired that 1 peculiar infinitesimal successful the amusement reminded him of 1 of his ain shows — during The Mayhem Ball, Gaga boards a gilded gondola and is rowed down the stage, arsenic she sings a gothic, operatic mentation of “Shallow.” Webber couldn’t assistance but gully comparisons betwixt that infinitesimal and 1 of his astir celebrated musicals, The Phantom of the Opera, which besides contains a celebrated country involving a gothic gondola ride.

“I was really, truly pleased to spot an opera location connected stage, and adjacent much pleased to spot a vessel with her successful it being rowed crossed the large auditorium that is O2,” helium said. “It reminded maine of thing that I mightiness person had a small engagement with … But I thought the performance was perfectly fabulous, and I deliberation Lady Gaga is perfectly a satellite superstar.”

Watch Webber’s afloat video praising Gaga’s amusement below: