Andrew Lloyd Webber and Antonio Banderas will develop entertainment formats through Amigos Para Siempre (APS)

Amigos Para Siempre (APS) will be the channel through which the legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and the businessman and actor Antonio Banderas will produce live entertainment, theater and musical shows in the main Spanish-speaking markets.

Long-time collaborators and friends, the company APS of Lloyd Webber y Banderas will grant licenses, produce and develop projects for the Spanish speaking markets around the world, considered one of the largest and fastest growing global audiences. APS will reach major Spanish-speaking markets around the world, including the US.

The Really Useful Group, a company founded by Andrew Lloyd Webber to produce, license and promote his shows and music around the world, will give the new joint venture the performing rights to Spanish versions of Lloyd Webber's iconic musical hits, including The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cinderella, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat y School of Rock. This joint venture project is supervised by Emanuel Nuñez, general director of NuCo Media Group, and by the president of Really Useful Group, Jessica Koravos.

Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates the agreement by highlighting the figure of Banderas and underscoring the value of the Spanish-speaking market: "Antonio Banderas is not only entertainment royalty, but he is also one of the most versatile creative minds I have had the pleasure of working with. It is truly exciting to partner with Antonio to present my work, as well as other brilliant Broadway and West End titles, in new markets. While millions of people around the Spanish-speaking world already love our shows and our music, the appetite for more and the level of musical and theatrical talent is extraordinary. I look forward to working with Antonio to bring exceptional quality Spanish-language productions to the world.”

own Banderas details how his relationship with Lloyd Webber has developed and considers this agreement as one of his greatest achievements: “I had the great privilege of working hand in hand with Andrew during the recording and filming of his famous musical Evita in 1996, but that was when I saw Jesus Christ Superstar, during the early part of the 1970s, when I became hooked on music, theater and the fabulous talent of Andrew Lloyd Webber. It wouldn't be wrong to say that I became an actor because of the enormous influence and strong impression I experienced when I saw Andrew's musicals. "Having the opportunity to work again with one of the most respected and admired composers of all time, offering his magnificent works to a Spanish-language audience, is one of the most outstanding achievements of my career in the world of entertainment."