Lloyd Webber turns to satire

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer behind “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Cats” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” is planning to make a musical out of a novel by a Russian author who died in 1940.

London’s Daily Mail newspaper, quoting Lloyd Webber, said his next project will be an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita,” a satire of life in the Soviet Union under Stalin that features Satan as a principal character.