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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.[2] Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.


The Lord Lloyd-Webber
Lloyd Webber in 2008
Born
Andrew Lloyd Webber

(1948-03-22) 22 March 1948 (age 74)
Kensington, London, England
OccupationComposer
Years active1965–present
Notable work
Political partyConservative (until 2021)[1]
Spouses
  • Sarah Hugill
    (m. 1971; div. 1983)
  • (m. 1984; div. 1990)
  • (m. 1991)
Children5, including Imogen and Nick Lloyd Webber
Parent(s)William Lloyd Webber
Jean Johnstone
RelativesJulian Lloyd Webber (brother)
AwardsFull list
Member of the House of Lords
In office
25 February 1997 – 17 October 2017
Websitewww.andrewlloydwebber.com

Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "Memory" from Cats, "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita, and "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 2001, The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history".[3] The Daily Telegraph ranked him the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" in 2008, lyricist Don Black writing "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."[4]

He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage for services to the arts, six Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, 14 Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and an Emmy Award.[5][6][7] He is one of 17 people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony.[8] He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors.[9]

His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools, London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. In 1992, he started the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture, and heritage of the UK.[10] In 2014 he designed a Cats-themed Paddington Bear statue, which was auctioned to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).[11]

Early life

 
Lloyd Webber studied at the Royal College of Music. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate from the college for his "contribution to musical life".[12]

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948 in Kensington, London,[13] the elder son of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist.[14] His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a world-renowned solo cellist.[15]

Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age: a suite of six pieces at the age of nine.[16] He also put on "productions" with Julian and his Aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at Viola's suggestion). His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. His father enrolled him as a part-time student at the Eric Gilder School of Music in the spring of 1963.[17] At this time he was working on a Genghis Khan musical called Westonia!, and he had also set music to Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music in London and pursue his interest in musical theatre.[18][19]

Professional career

Early years

In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice.[20][21] Their first collaboration was The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo. They produced a demo tape of that work in 1966,[20] but the project failed to gain a backer.[21]

Although composed in 1965, The Likes of Us was not publicly performed until 2005, when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival. In 2008, amateur rights were released by the National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) in association with the Really Useful Group. The first amateur performance was by a children's theatre group in Cornwall called "Kidz R Us". Stylistically, The Likes of Us is fashioned after the Broadway musical of the 1940s and 1950s; it opens with a traditional overture comprising a medley of tunes from the show, and the score reflects some of Lloyd Webber's early influences, particularly Richard Rodgers, Frederick Loewe, and Lionel Bart. In this respect, it is markedly different from the composer's later work, which tends to be either predominantly or wholly through-composed, and closer in form to opera.

 
Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Paul Nicholas, at the Palace Theatre, London in 1972. Its success saw Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice expand and release their previous biblical-based musical Joseph.

In the summer of 1967, Alan Doggett, a family friend of the Lloyd Webbers who had assisted on The Likes of Us and who was the music teacher at the Colet Court school in London, commissioned Lloyd Webber and Rice to write a piece for the school's choir.[20][21][22] Doggett requested a "pop cantata" along the lines of Herbert Chappell's The Daniel Jazz (1963) and Michael Hurd's Jonah-Man Jazz (1966), both of which had been published by Novello and were based on the Old Testament.[20] The request for the new piece came with a 100-guinea advance from Novello.[20] This resulted in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph, in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiched a number of pop-music styles such as Elvis-style rock'n'roll, Calypso and country music. Joseph began life as a short cantata that gained some recognition on its second staging with a favourable review in The Times. For its subsequent performances, Rice and Lloyd Webber revised the show and added new songs to expand it to a more substantial length. Continued expansion eventually culminated in a 1972 stage musical and then a two-hour-long production being staged in the West End in 1973 on the back of the success of Jesus Christ Superstar.[23]

In 1969, Rice and Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the Eurovision Song Contest called "Try It and See", which was not selected. With rewritten lyrics, it became "King Herod's Song" in their third musical, Jesus Christ Superstar (1970). Debuting on Broadway in 1971, by 1980 the musical had grossed more than $237 million worldwide.[24] Running for over eight years in London between 1972 and 1980, it held the record for longest-running West End musical before it was overtaken by Cats in 1989.[25] The planned follow-up to Jesus Christ Superstar was a musical comedy based on the Jeeves and Wooster novels by P. G. Wodehouse. Tim Rice was uncertain about this venture, partly because of his concern that he might not be able to do justice to the novels that he and Lloyd Webber so admired.[26] Rice backed out of the project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical Jeeves with Alan Ayckbourn, who provided the book and lyrics.[27] Jeeves failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a run of only 38 performances in the West End in 1975.[28] Many years later, Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn revisited this project, producing a thoroughly reworked and more successful version entitled By Jeeves (1996).

Mid-1970s

 
Evita at the West End's Adelphi Theatre. Lloyd Webber purchased the theatre in 1993. The 1998 video of Lloyd Webber's Cats was filmed at the venue.

Lloyd Webber collaborated with Rice once again to write Evita (1978), a musical based on the life of Eva Perón. As with Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita was released first as a concept album (1976), featuring Julie Covington singing the part of Eva Perón. The song "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" became a hit single and the musical was staged at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre in a production directed by Harold Prince and starring Elaine Paige in the title role.[29] This original production was enormously successful, eventually running for nearly eight years in the West End.[30]

Evita transferred to Broadway in 1979, in a production starring Patti LuPone as Eva and Mandy Patinkin as Che; it won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, helped launch the careers of both LuPone and Patinkin, and ran for almost four years. Rice and Lloyd Webber parted ways soon after Evita, although they have sporadically worked together in the years that followed.[31]

In 1978, Lloyd Webber embarked on a solo project, the Variations, with his cellist brother Julian based on the 24th Caprice by Paganini, which reached number two in the pop album chart in the United Kingdom. The main theme was used as the theme tune for ITV's long-running South Bank Show throughout its 32-year run. The same year, Lloyd Webber also composed a new theme tune for the long-running documentary series Whicker's World, which was used from 1978 to 1980.

1980s

Lloyd Webber was the subject of This Is Your Life in November 1980 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the foyer of Thames Television's Euston Road Studios in London.[32] He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the West End's Adelphi Theatre.[33]

Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead to the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Cats (1981) was to become the longest running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years before closing. On Broadway, Cats ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera.[34][35] Elaine Paige collaborated again with Lloyd Webber, originating the role of Grizabella in Cats, and had a Top 10 UK hit with "Memory".[36]

Starlight Express (1984) was a commercial hit, but received negative reviews from the critics. It ran for 7,409 performances in London, making it the ninth longest-running West End show. It ran for less than two years on Broadway. The show has also seen two tours of the US, as well as an Australian/Japanese production, a three-year UK touring production, which transferred to New Zealand later in 2009. The show also runs full-time in a custom-built theatre in Bochum, Germany, where it has been running since 1988.[37]

Lloyd Webber wrote a Requiem Mass dedicated to his father, William, who had died in 1982. It premiered at St. Thomas Church in New York on 24 February 1985. Church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. Lloyd Webber had on a number of occasions written sacred music for the annual Sydmonton Festival.[38] Lloyd Webber received a Grammy Award in 1986 for Requiem in the category of best classical composition. Pie Jesu from Requiem achieved a high placing on the UK singles chart. Perhaps because of its large orchestration, live performances of the Requiem are rare.

 
The Phantom of the Opera at the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto

In 1986, Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, commissioned a short musical from Lloyd Webber and Rice for his mother's 60th birthday celebration.[39] Cricket (1986), also called Cricket (Hearts and Wickets), reunited Lloyd Webber with Rice to create this short musical for the Queen's birthday, first performed at Windsor Castle.[40][41] Several of the tunes were later used for Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard.

Lloyd Webber premiered The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End in 1986, inspired by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel. He wrote the part of Christine for his then-wife, Sarah Brightman, who played the role in the original London and Broadway productions alongside Michael Crawford as the Phantom. The production was directed by Harold Prince, who had also earlier directed Evita. Charles Hart wrote the lyrics for Phantom with some additional material provided by Richard Stilgoe, with whom Lloyd Webber co-wrote the book of the musical. It became a hit and is still running in both the West End and on Broadway; in January 2006 it overtook Lloyd Webber's Cats as the longest running show on Broadway. On 11 February 2012, Phantom of the Opera played its 10,000th show on Broadway.[35] With over 13,400 London productions it is the second longest-running West End musical.[42]

Aspects of Love followed in 1989, a musical based on the story by David Garnett. The lyrics were by Don Black and Charles Hart and the original production was directed by Trevor Nunn. Aspects had a run of four years in London, but closed after less than a year on Broadway. It has since gone on a tour of the UK. It is famous for the song "Love Changes Everything", which was performed by Michael Ball in both the West End and Broadway casts. It stayed in the UK singles chart for 14 weeks, peaking at number 2 and becoming Ball's signature tune.[43]

1990s

Lloyd Webber was asked to write a song for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and composed "Amigos Para Siempre — Friends for Life" with Don Black providing the lyrics. This song was performed by Sarah Brightman and José Carreras.

 
Lloyd Webber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993 for his contribution to live theatre

Lloyd Webber had toyed with the idea of writing a musical based on Billy Wilder's critically acclaimed movie, Sunset Boulevard, since the early 1970s when he saw the film, but the project didn't come to fruition until after the completion of Aspects of Love when the composer finally managed to secure the rights from Paramount Pictures,[44] The composer worked with two collaborators, as he had done on Aspects of Love; this time Christopher Hampton and Don Black shared equal credit for the book and lyrics. Sunset Boulevard opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 12 July 1993, and ran for 1,529 performances.[45] In spite of the show's popularity and extensive run in London's West End, it lost money due to the sheer expense of the production.

In 1994, Sunset Boulevard became a successful Broadway show, opening with the largest advance in Broadway history, and winning seven Tony Awards that year. Even so, by its closing in 1997, "it had not recouped its reported $13 million investment."[46] From 1995 to 2000, Lloyd Webber wrote the Matters of Taste column in The Daily Telegraph where he reviewed restaurants and hotels, and these were illustrated by Lucinda Rogers.[47]

In 1998, Lloyd Webber released a film version of Cats, which was filmed at the Adelphi Theatre in London.[48] David Mallet directed the film, and Gillian Lynne choreographed it. The cast consisted of performers who had been in the show before, including Ken Page (the original Old Deuteronomy on Broadway), Elaine Paige (original Grizabella in London) and John Mills as Gus: the Theatre Cat.[49]

In 1998, Whistle Down the Wind made its debut, a musical written with lyrics supplied by Jim Steinman. Originally opening in Washington, Lloyd Webber was reportedly not happy with the casting or Harold Prince's production and the show was subsequently revised for a London staging directed by Gale Edwards. The production included the Boyzone number-one hit "No Matter What", which remained at the top of the UK charts for three weeks. His The Beautiful Game opened in London and has never been seen on Broadway. The show had a respectable run at The Cambridge Theatre in London. The show has been re-worked into a new musical, The Boys in the Photograph, which had its world première at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in April 2008.[50][51]

2000s

Having achieved great popular success in musical theatre, Lloyd Webber was referred to by The New York Times in 2001 as "the most commercially successful composer in history".[3] In 2002 he turned producer, bringing the musical Bombay Dreams to London. With music by Indian Music composer A.R. Rahman and lyrics by Don Black, it ran for two years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. A revised Broadway production at the Broadway Theatre two years later ran for only 284 performances.

On 16 September 2004, his production of The Woman in White opened at the Palace Theatre in London. It ran for 19 months and 500 performances. A revised production opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on 17 November 2005. Garnering mixed reviews from critics, due in part to the frequent absences of the show's star Maria Friedman due to breast cancer treatment, it closed only a brief three months later on 19 February 2006.[52]

Lloyd Webber produced a staging of The Sound of Music, which débuted in November 2006. He made the controversial decision to choose an unknown to play leading lady Maria, who was found through the BBC's reality television show How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?, in which he was a judge.[53] The winner of the show was Connie Fisher.

 
U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush stand with the Kennedy Center honourees in the Blue Room of the White House during a reception Sunday, 3 December 2006. From left, they are: singer and songwriter William "Smokey" Robinson; Andrew Lloyd Webber; country singer Dolly Parton; film director Steven Spielberg; and conductor Zubin Mehta.

A 2006 project, The Master and Margarita, was abandoned in 2007.[54] In September 2006, Lloyd Webber was named a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors with Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, and Smokey Robinson. He was recognised for his outstanding contribution to American performing arts.[55] He attended the ceremony on 3 December 2006; it aired on 26 December 2006. On 11 February 2007, Lloyd Webber was featured as a guest judge on the reality television show Grease: You're the One that I Want!.[56] The contestants all sang "The Phantom of the Opera".

Between April and June 2007, he appeared in BBC One's Any Dream Will Do!, which followed the same format as How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. Its aim was to find a new Joseph for his revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Lee Mead won the contest after quitting his part in the ensemble – and as understudy in The Phantom of the Opera – to compete for the role. Viewers' telephone voting during the series raised more than £500,000 for the BBC's annual Children in Need charity appeal, according to host Graham Norton on air during the final.[57]

In 2007, Lloyd Webber's cat, Otto, leaped onto his Clavinova piano and "destroyed the entire score for the new 'Phantom' in one fell swoop". The Phantom in question was The Phantom of Manhattan, a planned sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.[58]

On 1 July 2007, Lloyd Webber presented excerpts from his musicals as part of the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium, London, an event organised to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death.[59][60] BBC Radio 2 broadcast a concert of music from the Lloyd Webber musicals on 24 August 2007.[61] Denise Van Outen introduced songs from Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Woman in White, Evita and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, which Lloyd Webber revived in 2006 at the London Palladium, and the 2002 musical Bombay Dreams.[62]

 
Lloyd Webber and the UK's Eurovision entrant Jade Ewen
 
Lloyd Webber and Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow

In April 2008, Lloyd Webber reprised his role as judge, this time in the BBC musical talent show I'd Do Anything. The show followed a similar format to its Maria and Joseph predecessors, this time involving a search for an actress to play the role of Nancy in a West End production of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, a musical based on the Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.[63] The show also featured a search for three young actors to play and share the title character's role, but the show's main focus was on the search for Nancy. The role was won by Jodie Prenger despite Lloyd Webber's stated preference for one of the other contestants; the winners of the Oliver role were Harry Stott, Gwion Wyn-Jones and Laurence Jeffcoate. Also in April 2008, Lloyd Webber was featured on the U.S. talent show American Idol, acting as a mentor when the 6 finalists had to select one of his songs to perform for the judges that week.[64]

Lloyd Webber accepted the challenge of managing the UK's entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Moscow. In early 2009 a series, called Eurovision: Your Country Needs You, was broadcast to find a performer for a song that he would compose for the competition. Jade Ewen won the right to represent Britain, winning with "It's My Time", by Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren. At the contest, Lloyd Webber accompanied her on the piano during the performance. The United Kingdom finished fifth in the contest.[65]

On 8 October 2009, Lloyd Webber launched the musical Love Never Dies at a press conference held at Her Majesty's Theatre, where the original Phantom has been running since 1986.[66] Also present were Sierra Boggess, who had been cast as Christine Daaé, and Ramin Karimloo, who portrayed Phantom, a role he had recently played in the West End.

2010s

Following the opening of Love Never Dies, Lloyd Webber again began a search for a new musical theatre performer in the BBC One series Over the Rainbow. He cast the winner, Danielle Hope, in the role of Dorothy, and a dog to play Toto in his forthcoming stage production of The Wizard of Oz. He and lyricist and composer Tim Rice wrote a number of new songs for the production to supplement the songs from the film.[67]

 
After the 2016 English National Opera's revival of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum was well-received, in 2017 the production transferred to the Palace Theatre on Broadway (pictured) in New York City

On 1 March 2011, The Wizard of Oz opened at The Palladium Theatre, starring Hope as Dorothy and Michael Crawford as the Wizard. In 2012, Lloyd Webber fronted a new ITV primetime show Superstar which gave the UK public the chance to decide who would play the starring role of Jesus in an arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. The arena tour started in September 2012 and also starred comedian Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, former Spice Girl Melanie C as Mary Magdalene and BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as King Herod.[68] Tickets for most venues went on sale on 18 May 2012.

In 2013, Lloyd Webber reunited with Christopher Hampton and Don Black on Stephen Ward the Musical.[69] For his next project, a 2015 musical adaptation of the 2003 film School of Rock,[70] auditions were held for children aged nine to fifteen in cooperation with the School of Rock music education program, which predated the film by several years.[71][72]

In April 2016, the English National Opera staged a revival of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum.[73] The limited run, semi-staged production directed by Lonny Price brought Glenn Close to reprise her star turn as "Norma Desmond", which was her first time performing the role in London; she had originated the role in Los Angeles in December 1993 and then on Broadway in November 1994 (which won her the 1995 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical). The 2016 London revival was so well-received that the production transferred to the Palace Theatre on Broadway in February 2017, making Lloyd Webber the first musical-theatre composer since 1953 to have four musicals running simultaneously on Broadway – a feat that his heroes Rodgers and Hammerstein had previously achieved.[74][75]

Lloyd Webber's memoir, Unmasked, was published in 2018.[76] On 9 September 2018, Lloyd Webber, along with Tim Rice and John Legend each won an Emmy for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. With this win, Lloyd Webber, Rice and Legend joined the list of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.[77] Lloyd Webber wrote the song "Beautiful Ghosts" with Taylor Swift for the film adaptation of Cats, produced by Greg Wells and released in December 2019.[78] In an interview in August 2020, Lloyd Webber called the film "ridiculous" in the ways that it changed the musical: "The problem with the film was that Tom Hooper decided that he didn't want anybody involved in it who was involved in the original show."[79] He said that seeing the film caused him to get a dog.[80]

2020s

 
Cinderella at the West End's Gillian Lynne Theatre in July 2021

Lloyd Webber's new version of Cinderella opened at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in the West End in 2021. The opening, which was originally set to take place in August 2020, was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[81] Based on a book by Emerald Fennell, Lloyd Webber wrote: "Emerald Fennell has written something truly exciting and original, and the moment I read her outline I knew I'd found my latest collaborator."[82] He garnered press attention in July 2021 for saying that he was "prepared to be arrested" to open Cinderella to full houses in spite of rising Covid cases and in defiance of Government advice.[83] A 2021 feature in Variety suggested:

Lloyd Webber, at 73, appears to have been reanimated creatively in recent years. Both School of Rock and Cinderella earned him some of the best reviews of his career and had a lightness and wit that had been missing from his work. They came after a grueling period in the wilderness, one characterized by failures, disappointments and missteps. ... It seemed, for a time, as though the Lloyd Webber formula, which relied on swooning, rapturous melodies and razzle-dazzle, had grown stale.[80]

Accusations of plagiarism

Among the accusations of plagiarism that Lloyd Webber has received, the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen stated that he: "has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy's never invented one note by himself. That's rather poor".[84] Lloyd Webber's biographer, John Snelson, acknowledged a similarity between the andante movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor and the Jesus Christ Superstar song "I Don't Know How to Love Him", but wrote that Lloyd Webber:

...brings a new dramatic tension to Mendelssohn's original melody through the confused emotions of Mary Magdalene. The opening theme may be Mendelssohn, but the rhythmic and harmonic treatment along with new lines of highly effective melodic development are Lloyd Webber's. The song works in its own right as its many performers and audiences can witness.[84]

An accusation of plagiarism regarded the 1971 Pink Floyd album Meddle. The sixth track of the album, "Echoes", has a riff on which Lloyd Webber allegedly based the opening organ riff in "The Phantom of the Opera". The two riffs share very similar notes and the order of the notes played. Lloyd Webber's pipe organ riff from "Phantom of the Opera" plays D, C, C, B, A, then ascending A, B, C, C, D. Pink Floyd's "Echoes" plays C, C, B, A, A, then ascending A, A, B, C, C. Pink Floyd bassist and co-lead vocalist Roger Waters pointed this out and said it was "probably actionable", but stated he did not care to take it to court.[85]

Noting similarities between Lloyd Webber's "The Music of the Night" and a recurring melody in Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera, La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), in 1987 the Puccini estate filed a lawsuit against Lloyd Webber, accusing him of plagiarism. The case was settled out of court, but details were not released to the public.[86] The songwriter Ray Repp claimed in a court case that Lloyd Webber had stolen a melody from his own song "Till You", but the court ruled in Lloyd Webber's favour.[87]

Personal life

Lloyd Webber has been married three times. He married first Sarah Hugill on 24 July 1971 and they divorced on 14 November 1983. Together they had two children, a daughter and a son:

 
Lloyd Webber (middle) with his then-wife Sarah Brightman (right) in 1985. He would cast her as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera which debuted in London the following year.

He then married English soprano Sarah Brightman on 22 March 1984 in Hampshire. He cast Brightman in the lead role in his musical The Phantom of the Opera, among other notable roles. They divorced on 3 January 1990, but have remained close friends and have also continued to work together.[88]

Thirdly, he married Madeleine Gurdon in Westminster on 9 February 1991. They have three children, two sons and one daughter, all of whom were born in the same city:

  • Alastair Adam Lloyd Webber (born 3 May 1992)
  • William Richard Lloyd Webber (born 24 August 1993)
  • Isabella Aurora Lloyd Webber (born 30 April 1996).

Lloyd Webber and his third wife Madeleine founded the Watership Down Stud in 1992. In 1996, they expanded their equestrian holdings by purchasing Kiltinan Castle Stud near Fethard in County Tipperary, Ireland.[89]

In a 1971 interview with The New York Times, Lloyd Webber said he is an agnostic. He also said he views Jesus as "one of the great figures of history".[90]

He is a lifelong supporter of London-based football club Leyton Orient F.C.,[91] just like his younger brother Julian.[92]

In late 2009, Lloyd Webber had surgery for early-stage prostate cancer,[93] but had to be readmitted to hospital with post-operative infection in November. In January 2010, he declared he was cancer-free.[94] He had his prostate completely removed as a preventive measure.[95]

Wealth

The Sunday Times Rich List 2006 ranked him the 87th-richest person in Britain with an estimated fortune of £700 million. His wealth increased to £750 million in 2007, but the publication ranked him 101st in 2008.[96] The Sunday Times Rich List of 2019 saw him ranked the richest musician in the UK (overtaking Paul McCartney) with a fortune of £820 million.[97] He lives at Sydmonton Court, Hampshire, and owns much of nearby Watership Down.[98]

Lloyd Webber is an art collector, with a passion for Victorian painting. An exhibition of works from his collection was presented at the Royal Academy in 2003 under the title Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters – The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection. In 2006, Lloyd Webber planned to sell Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto by Pablo Picasso to benefit the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.[99] In November 2006, he withdrew the painting from auction after a claim that the previous owner had been forced to sell it under duress in Nazi Germany.[100] An out-of-court settlement was reached, where the foundation retained ownership rights.[101] On 23 June 2010, the painting was sold at auction for £34.7 million to an anonymous telephone bidder.[102]

Politics

Lloyd Webber was made a Conservative life peer in 1997;[103] however by the end of 2015, he had voted only 33 times.[104] Politically, Lloyd Webber has supported the UK's Conservative Party, allowing his song "Take That Look Off Your Face" to be used on a party promotional film seen by an estimated 1 million people before the 2005 general election.[105] In August 2014, Lloyd Webber was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[106]

In October 2015, Lloyd Webber was involved in a contentious House of Lords vote over proposed cuts to tax credits, voting with the Government in favour of the plan. Lloyd Webber was denounced by his critics because he flew in from abroad on his personal plane to vote, when his voting record was scant.[107][108] In October 2017, Lloyd Webber retired from the House of Lords, stating that his busy schedule was incompatible with the demands of Parliament considering the upcoming crucial Brexit legislation.[109]

In July 2021, he told Good Morning Britain that he would never vote for the Conservatives again, due to their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and poor treatment of the arts sector during that time.[1]

Awards and honours

Lloyd Webber was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1992 Birthday Honours for services to the arts.[110] In the 1997 New Year Honours he was created a life peer as Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire.[103] He is properly styled as The Lord Lloyd-Webber; the title is hyphenated, although his surname is not.[13] He sat as a Conservative member of the House of Lords until his retirement from the House on 17 October 2017.[111]

Theatre credits

Note: Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber unless otherwise noted.

Film adaptations

There have been a number of film adaptations of Lloyd Webber's musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), directed by Norman Jewison; Evita (1996), directed by Alan Parker; The Phantom of the Opera (2004), directed by Joel Schumacher and co-produced by Lloyd Webber; and Cats (2019), directed by Tom Hooper and executive produced by Lloyd Webber. Cats (1998), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999), Jesus Christ Superstar (2000) and By Jeeves (2001) have been adapted into made-for-television films that have been released on DVD and VHS and often air on BBC.

A special performance of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall for the 25th anniversary was broadcast live to cinemas in early October 2011 and later released on DVD and Blu-ray in February 2012. The same was also done with a reworked version of Love Never Dies. Filmed in Melbourne, Australia, it received a limited cinema release in the US and Canada in 2012, to see if it would be viable to bring the show to Broadway.

Other works

  • The Odessa File (1974) – Film score.
  • Variations (1978) – A set of musical variations on Niccolò Paganini's Caprice in A minor that Lloyd Webber composed for his brother, cellist Julian. This album featured fifteen rock musicians including guitarist Gary Moore and pianist Rod Argent and reached number 2 in the UK album chart upon its release. It was later combined with Tell Me on a Sunday to form one show, Song and Dance. Lloyd Webber also used variation five as the basis for Unexpected Song in Song and Dance. The main theme is used as the theme music to The South Bank Show.
  • Requiem (1985) – A classical choral work composed in honour of his father, William.
  • Watership Down (1999) – Lloyd Webber and Mike Batt, main soundtrack composer of the animated series adaptation of Richard Adams' novel of the same name, composed the song "Fields of Sun". The actual song was never used on the show, nor was it available on the CD soundtrack that was released at the time. He was however still credited for the unused song in the show's opening titles.

Discography

Musicals and show recordings

Other albums

  • Variations (1978)
  • Variations with London Philharmonic Orchestra (1986)
  • Symphonic Suites (2021)

See also

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Further reading

  • Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection – Royal Academy of Arts, London 2003 ISBN 1-903973-39-2
  • Cats on a Chandelier – Coveney, M (1999), Hutchinson, London
  • Oh What a Circus – Rice, Tim (1999), Hodder & Stoughton, London
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber – Snelson, John (2004), Yale University Press, New Haven CT. ISBN 0-300-10459-6
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works – Walsh, Michael (1989, revised and expanded, 1997), Abrams: New York

External links

  • Official website
  • at the Really Useful Group
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Internet Broadway Database  
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber at IMDb
  • Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber in International Songwriters Association's "Songwriter Magazine"
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album
1980
for Evita
shared with Tim Rice
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Henry Krieger – Composer, Tom Eyen – Lyricist, David Foster – Producer
for Dreamgirls
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album
1983
for Cats
Succeeded by
Preceded by
None
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition
1985
for Requiem
Succeeded by
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gentlemen
Baron Lloyd-Webber
Followed by
The Lord Hoyle

andrew, lloyd, webber, this, british, surname, barrelled, being, made, multiple, names, should, written, lloyd, webber, webber, baron, lloyd, webber, born, march, 1948, english, composer, impresario, musical, theatre, several, musicals, have, more, than, decad. This British surname is barrelled being made up of multiple names It should be written as Lloyd Webber not Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber Baron Lloyd Webber born 22 March 1948 is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre 2 Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway He has composed 21 musicals a song cycle a set of variations two film scores and a Latin Requiem Mass The Right HonourableThe Lord Lloyd WebberLloyd Webber in 2008BornAndrew Lloyd Webber 1948 03 22 22 March 1948 age 74 Kensington London EnglandOccupationComposerYears active1965 presentNotable workJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1968 Jesus Christ Superstar 1970 Evita 1976 Cats 1981 Starlight Express 1984 The Phantom of the Opera 1986 Sunset Boulevard 1993 School of Rock 2015 Political partyConservative until 2021 1 SpousesSarah Hugill m 1971 div 1983 wbr Sarah Brightman m 1984 div 1990 wbr Madeleine Gurdon m 1991 wbr Children5 including Imogen and Nick Lloyd WebberParent s William Lloyd WebberJean JohnstoneRelativesJulian Lloyd Webber brother AwardsFull listMember of the House of LordsIn office 25 February 1997 17 October 2017Websitewww wbr andrewlloydwebber wbr comSeveral of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals such as Memory from Cats The Music of the Night and All I Ask of You from The Phantom of the Opera I Don t Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar Don t Cry for Me Argentina from Evita and Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat In 2001 The New York Times referred to him as the most commercially successful composer in history 3 The Daily Telegraph ranked him the fifth most powerful person in British culture in 2008 lyricist Don Black writing Andrew more or less single handedly reinvented the musical 4 He has received a number of awards including a knighthood in 1992 followed by a peerage for services to the arts six Tonys three Grammys as well as the Grammy Legend Award an Academy Award 14 Ivor Novello Awards seven Olivier Awards a Golden Globe a Brit Award the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music and an Emmy Award 5 6 7 He is one of 17 people to have won an Oscar an Emmy a Grammy and a Tony 8 He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is an inductee into the Songwriter s Hall of Fame and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors 9 His company the Really Useful Group is one of the largest theatre operators in London Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions including national tours of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools London a performing arts school located in Chiswick West London He is involved in a number of charitable activities including the Elton John AIDS Foundation Nordoff Robbins Prostate Cancer UK and War Child In 1992 he started the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts culture and heritage of the UK 10 In 2014 he designed a Cats themed Paddington Bear statue which was auctioned to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children NSPCC 11 Contents 1 Early life 2 Professional career 2 1 Early years 2 2 Mid 1970s 2 3 1980s 2 4 1990s 2 5 2000s 2 6 2010s 2 7 2020s 3 Accusations of plagiarism 4 Personal life 5 Wealth 6 Politics 7 Awards and honours 8 Theatre credits 9 Film adaptations 10 Other works 11 Discography 12 See also 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External linksEarly life Edit Lloyd Webber studied at the Royal College of Music In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from the college for his contribution to musical life 12 Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948 in Kensington London 13 the elder son of William Lloyd Webber 1914 1982 a composer and organist and Jean Hermione Johnstone 1921 1993 a violinist and pianist 14 His younger brother Julian Lloyd Webber is a world renowned solo cellist 15 Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age a suite of six pieces at the age of nine 16 He also put on productions with Julian and his Aunt Viola in his toy theatre which he built at Viola s suggestion His aunt Viola an actress took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre His father enrolled him as a part time student at the Eric Gilder School of Music in the spring of 1963 17 At this time he was working on a Genghis Khan musical called Westonia and he had also set music to Old Possum s Book of Practical Cats In 1965 Lloyd Webber was a Queen s Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College Oxford although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music in London and pursue his interest in musical theatre 18 19 Professional career EditEarly years Edit In 1965 when Lloyd Webber was a 17 year old budding musical theatre composer he was introduced to the 20 year old aspiring pop song writer Tim Rice 20 21 Their first collaboration was The Likes of Us a musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo They produced a demo tape of that work in 1966 20 but the project failed to gain a backer 21 Although composed in 1965 The Likes of Us was not publicly performed until 2005 when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber s Sydmonton Festival In 2008 amateur rights were released by the National Operatic and Dramatic Association NODA in association with the Really Useful Group The first amateur performance was by a children s theatre group in Cornwall called Kidz R Us Stylistically The Likes of Us is fashioned after the Broadway musical of the 1940s and 1950s it opens with a traditional overture comprising a medley of tunes from the show and the score reflects some of Lloyd Webber s early influences particularly Richard Rodgers Frederick Loewe and Lionel Bart In this respect it is markedly different from the composer s later work which tends to be either predominantly or wholly through composed and closer in form to opera Jesus Christ Superstar starring Paul Nicholas at the Palace Theatre London in 1972 Its success saw Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice expand and release their previous biblical based musical Joseph In the summer of 1967 Alan Doggett a family friend of the Lloyd Webbers who had assisted on The Likes of Us and who was the music teacher at the Colet Court school in London commissioned Lloyd Webber and Rice to write a piece for the school s choir 20 21 22 Doggett requested a pop cantata along the lines of Herbert Chappell s The Daniel Jazz 1963 and Michael Hurd s Jonah Man Jazz 1966 both of which had been published by Novello and were based on the Old Testament 20 The request for the new piece came with a 100 guinea advance from Novello 20 This resulted in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiched a number of pop music styles such as Elvis style rock n roll Calypso and country music Joseph began life as a short cantata that gained some recognition on its second staging with a favourable review in The Times For its subsequent performances Rice and Lloyd Webber revised the show and added new songs to expand it to a more substantial length Continued expansion eventually culminated in a 1972 stage musical and then a two hour long production being staged in the West End in 1973 on the back of the success of Jesus Christ Superstar 23 In 1969 Rice and Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the Eurovision Song Contest called Try It and See which was not selected With rewritten lyrics it became King Herod s Song in their third musical Jesus Christ Superstar 1970 Debuting on Broadway in 1971 by 1980 the musical had grossed more than 237 million worldwide 24 Running for over eight years in London between 1972 and 1980 it held the record for longest running West End musical before it was overtaken by Cats in 1989 25 The planned follow up to Jesus Christ Superstar was a musical comedy based on the Jeeves and Wooster novels by P G Wodehouse Tim Rice was uncertain about this venture partly because of his concern that he might not be able to do justice to the novels that he and Lloyd Webber so admired 26 Rice backed out of the project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical Jeeves with Alan Ayckbourn who provided the book and lyrics 27 Jeeves failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a run of only 38 performances in the West End in 1975 28 Many years later Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn revisited this project producing a thoroughly reworked and more successful version entitled By Jeeves 1996 Mid 1970s Edit Evita at the West End s Adelphi Theatre Lloyd Webber purchased the theatre in 1993 The 1998 video of Lloyd Webber s Cats was filmed at the venue Lloyd Webber collaborated with Rice once again to write Evita 1978 a musical based on the life of Eva Peron As with Jesus Christ Superstar Evita was released first as a concept album 1976 featuring Julie Covington singing the part of Eva Peron The song Don t Cry for Me Argentina became a hit single and the musical was staged at the West End s Prince Edward Theatre in a production directed by Harold Prince and starring Elaine Paige in the title role 29 This original production was enormously successful eventually running for nearly eight years in the West End 30 Evita transferred to Broadway in 1979 in a production starring Patti LuPone as Eva and Mandy Patinkin as Che it won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical helped launch the careers of both LuPone and Patinkin and ran for almost four years Rice and Lloyd Webber parted ways soon after Evita although they have sporadically worked together in the years that followed 31 In 1978 Lloyd Webber embarked on a solo project the Variations with his cellist brother Julian based on the 24th Caprice by Paganini which reached number two in the pop album chart in the United Kingdom The main theme was used as the theme tune for ITV s long running South Bank Show throughout its 32 year run The same year Lloyd Webber also composed a new theme tune for the long running documentary series Whicker s World which was used from 1978 to 1980 1980s Edit Lloyd Webber was the subject of This Is Your Life in November 1980 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the foyer of Thames Television s Euston Road Studios in London 32 He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the West End s Adelphi Theatre 33 Cats at the London Palladium Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist turning instead to the poetry of T S Eliot Cats 1981 was to become the longest running musical in London where it ran for 21 years before closing On Broadway Cats ran for 18 years a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera 34 35 Elaine Paige collaborated again with Lloyd Webber originating the role of Grizabella in Cats and had a Top 10 UK hit with Memory 36 Starlight Express 1984 was a commercial hit but received negative reviews from the critics It ran for 7 409 performances in London making it the ninth longest running West End show It ran for less than two years on Broadway The show has also seen two tours of the US as well as an Australian Japanese production a three year UK touring production which transferred to New Zealand later in 2009 The show also runs full time in a custom built theatre in Bochum Germany where it has been running since 1988 37 Lloyd Webber wrote a Requiem Mass dedicated to his father William who had died in 1982 It premiered at St Thomas Church in New York on 24 February 1985 Church music had been a part of the composer s upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans Lloyd Webber had on a number of occasions written sacred music for the annual Sydmonton Festival 38 Lloyd Webber received a Grammy Award in 1986 for Requiem in the category of best classical composition Pie Jesu from Requiem achieved a high placing on the UK singles chart Perhaps because of its large orchestration live performances of the Requiem are rare The Phantom of the Opera at the Princess of Wales Theatre Toronto In 1986 Prince Edward the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II commissioned a short musical from Lloyd Webber and Rice for his mother s 60th birthday celebration 39 Cricket 1986 also called Cricket Hearts and Wickets reunited Lloyd Webber with Rice to create this short musical for the Queen s birthday first performed at Windsor Castle 40 41 Several of the tunes were later used for Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard Lloyd Webber premiered The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty s Theatre in the West End in 1986 inspired by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel He wrote the part of Christine for his then wife Sarah Brightman who played the role in the original London and Broadway productions alongside Michael Crawford as the Phantom The production was directed by Harold Prince who had also earlier directed Evita Charles Hart wrote the lyrics for Phantom with some additional material provided by Richard Stilgoe with whom Lloyd Webber co wrote the book of the musical It became a hit and is still running in both the West End and on Broadway in January 2006 it overtook Lloyd Webber s Cats as the longest running show on Broadway On 11 February 2012 Phantom of the Opera played its 10 000th show on Broadway 35 With over 13 400 London productions it is the second longest running West End musical 42 Aspects of Love followed in 1989 a musical based on the story by David Garnett The lyrics were by Don Black and Charles Hart and the original production was directed by Trevor Nunn Aspects had a run of four years in London but closed after less than a year on Broadway It has since gone on a tour of the UK It is famous for the song Love Changes Everything which was performed by Michael Ball in both the West End and Broadway casts It stayed in the UK singles chart for 14 weeks peaking at number 2 and becoming Ball s signature tune 43 1990s Edit Lloyd Webber was asked to write a song for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and composed Amigos Para Siempre Friends for Life with Don Black providing the lyrics This song was performed by Sarah Brightman and Jose Carreras Lloyd Webber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993 for his contribution to live theatre Lloyd Webber had toyed with the idea of writing a musical based on Billy Wilder s critically acclaimed movie Sunset Boulevard since the early 1970s when he saw the film but the project didn t come to fruition until after the completion of Aspects of Love when the composer finally managed to secure the rights from Paramount Pictures 44 The composer worked with two collaborators as he had done on Aspects of Love this time Christopher Hampton and Don Black shared equal credit for the book and lyrics Sunset Boulevard opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 12 July 1993 and ran for 1 529 performances 45 In spite of the show s popularity and extensive run in London s West End it lost money due to the sheer expense of the production In 1994 Sunset Boulevard became a successful Broadway show opening with the largest advance in Broadway history and winning seven Tony Awards that year Even so by its closing in 1997 it had not recouped its reported 13 million investment 46 From 1995 to 2000 Lloyd Webber wrote the Matters of Taste column in The Daily Telegraph where he reviewed restaurants and hotels and these were illustrated by Lucinda Rogers 47 In 1998 Lloyd Webber released a film version of Cats which was filmed at the Adelphi Theatre in London 48 David Mallet directed the film and Gillian Lynne choreographed it The cast consisted of performers who had been in the show before including Ken Page the original Old Deuteronomy on Broadway Elaine Paige original Grizabella in London and John Mills as Gus the Theatre Cat 49 In 1998 Whistle Down the Wind made its debut a musical written with lyrics supplied by Jim Steinman Originally opening in Washington Lloyd Webber was reportedly not happy with the casting or Harold Prince s production and the show was subsequently revised for a London staging directed by Gale Edwards The production included the Boyzone number one hit No Matter What which remained at the top of the UK charts for three weeks His The Beautiful Game opened in London and has never been seen on Broadway The show had a respectable run at The Cambridge Theatre in London The show has been re worked into a new musical The Boys in the Photograph which had its world premiere at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in April 2008 50 51 2000s Edit Having achieved great popular success in musical theatre Lloyd Webber was referred to by The New York Times in 2001 as the most commercially successful composer in history 3 In 2002 he turned producer bringing the musical Bombay Dreams to London With music by Indian Music composer A R Rahman and lyrics by Don Black it ran for two years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre A revised Broadway production at the Broadway Theatre two years later ran for only 284 performances On 16 September 2004 his production of The Woman in White opened at the Palace Theatre in London It ran for 19 months and 500 performances A revised production opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on 17 November 2005 Garnering mixed reviews from critics due in part to the frequent absences of the show s star Maria Friedman due to breast cancer treatment it closed only a brief three months later on 19 February 2006 52 Lloyd Webber produced a staging of The Sound of Music which debuted in November 2006 He made the controversial decision to choose an unknown to play leading lady Maria who was found through the BBC s reality television show How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria in which he was a judge 53 The winner of the show was Connie Fisher U S President George W Bush and First Lady Laura Bush stand with the Kennedy Center honourees in the Blue Room of the White House during a reception Sunday 3 December 2006 From left they are singer and songwriter William Smokey Robinson Andrew Lloyd Webber country singer Dolly Parton film director Steven Spielberg and conductor Zubin Mehta A 2006 project The Master and Margarita was abandoned in 2007 54 In September 2006 Lloyd Webber was named a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors with Zubin Mehta Dolly Parton Steven Spielberg and Smokey Robinson He was recognised for his outstanding contribution to American performing arts 55 He attended the ceremony on 3 December 2006 it aired on 26 December 2006 On 11 February 2007 Lloyd Webber was featured as a guest judge on the reality television show Grease You re the One that I Want 56 The contestants all sang The Phantom of the Opera Between April and June 2007 he appeared in BBC One s Any Dream Will Do which followed the same format as How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria Its aim was to find a new Joseph for his revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Lee Mead won the contest after quitting his part in the ensemble and as understudy in The Phantom of the Opera to compete for the role Viewers telephone voting during the series raised more than 500 000 for the BBC s annual Children in Need charity appeal according to host Graham Norton on air during the final 57 In 2007 Lloyd Webber s cat Otto leaped onto his Clavinova piano and destroyed the entire score for the new Phantom in one fell swoop The Phantom in question was The Phantom of Manhattan a planned sequel to The Phantom of the Opera 58 On 1 July 2007 Lloyd Webber presented excerpts from his musicals as part of the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium London an event organised to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death 59 60 BBC Radio 2 broadcast a concert of music from the Lloyd Webber musicals on 24 August 2007 61 Denise Van Outen introduced songs from Whistle Down the Wind The Beautiful Game Tell Me on a Sunday The Woman in White Evita and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein s The Sound of Music which Lloyd Webber revived in 2006 at the London Palladium and the 2002 musical Bombay Dreams 62 Lloyd Webber and the UK s Eurovision entrant Jade Ewen Lloyd Webber and Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow In April 2008 Lloyd Webber reprised his role as judge this time in the BBC musical talent show I d Do Anything The show followed a similar format to its Maria and Joseph predecessors this time involving a search for an actress to play the role of Nancy in a West End production of Lionel Bart s Oliver a musical based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist 63 The show also featured a search for three young actors to play and share the title character s role but the show s main focus was on the search for Nancy The role was won by Jodie Prenger despite Lloyd Webber s stated preference for one of the other contestants the winners of the Oliver role were Harry Stott Gwion Wyn Jones and Laurence Jeffcoate Also in April 2008 Lloyd Webber was featured on the U S talent show American Idol acting as a mentor when the 6 finalists had to select one of his songs to perform for the judges that week 64 Lloyd Webber accepted the challenge of managing the UK s entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Moscow In early 2009 a series called Eurovision Your Country Needs You was broadcast to find a performer for a song that he would compose for the competition Jade Ewen won the right to represent Britain winning with It s My Time by Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren At the contest Lloyd Webber accompanied her on the piano during the performance The United Kingdom finished fifth in the contest 65 On 8 October 2009 Lloyd Webber launched the musical Love Never Dies at a press conference held at Her Majesty s Theatre where the original Phantom has been running since 1986 66 Also present were Sierra Boggess who had been cast as Christine Daae and Ramin Karimloo who portrayed Phantom a role he had recently played in the West End 2010s Edit Following the opening of Love Never Dies Lloyd Webber again began a search for a new musical theatre performer in the BBC One series Over the Rainbow He cast the winner Danielle Hope in the role of Dorothy and a dog to play Toto in his forthcoming stage production of The Wizard of Oz He and lyricist and composer Tim Rice wrote a number of new songs for the production to supplement the songs from the film 67 After the 2016 English National Opera s revival of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum was well received in 2017 the production transferred to the Palace Theatre on Broadway pictured in New York City On 1 March 2011 The Wizard of Oz opened at The Palladium Theatre starring Hope as Dorothy and Michael Crawford as the Wizard In 2012 Lloyd Webber fronted a new ITV primetime show Superstar which gave the UK public the chance to decide who would play the starring role of Jesus in an arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar The arena tour started in September 2012 and also starred comedian Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot former Spice Girl Melanie C as Mary Magdalene and BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as King Herod 68 Tickets for most venues went on sale on 18 May 2012 In 2013 Lloyd Webber reunited with Christopher Hampton and Don Black on Stephen Ward the Musical 69 For his next project a 2015 musical adaptation of the 2003 film School of Rock 70 auditions were held for children aged nine to fifteen in cooperation with the School of Rock music education program which predated the film by several years 71 72 In April 2016 the English National Opera staged a revival of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum 73 The limited run semi staged production directed by Lonny Price brought Glenn Close to reprise her star turn as Norma Desmond which was her first time performing the role in London she had originated the role in Los Angeles in December 1993 and then on Broadway in November 1994 which won her the 1995 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical The 2016 London revival was so well received that the production transferred to the Palace Theatre on Broadway in February 2017 making Lloyd Webber the first musical theatre composer since 1953 to have four musicals running simultaneously on Broadway a feat that his heroes Rodgers and Hammerstein had previously achieved 74 75 Lloyd Webber s memoir Unmasked was published in 2018 76 On 9 September 2018 Lloyd Webber along with Tim Rice and John Legend each won an Emmy for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert With this win Lloyd Webber Rice and Legend joined the list of people who have won Academy Emmy Grammy and Tony Awards 77 Lloyd Webber wrote the song Beautiful Ghosts with Taylor Swift for the film adaptation of Cats produced by Greg Wells and released in December 2019 78 In an interview in August 2020 Lloyd Webber called the film ridiculous in the ways that it changed the musical The problem with the film was that Tom Hooper decided that he didn t want anybody involved in it who was involved in the original show 79 He said that seeing the film caused him to get a dog 80 2020s Edit Cinderella at the West End s Gillian Lynne Theatre in July 2021Lloyd Webber s new version of Cinderella opened at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in the West End in 2021 The opening which was originally set to take place in August 2020 was delayed due to the COVID 19 pandemic 81 Based on a book by Emerald Fennell Lloyd Webber wrote Emerald Fennell has written something truly exciting and original and the moment I read her outline I knew I d found my latest collaborator 82 He garnered press attention in July 2021 for saying that he was prepared to be arrested to open Cinderella to full houses in spite of rising Covid cases and in defiance of Government advice 83 A 2021 feature in Variety suggested Lloyd Webber at 73 appears to have been reanimated creatively in recent years Both School of Rock and Cinderella earned him some of the best reviews of his career and had a lightness and wit that had been missing from his work They came after a grueling period in the wilderness one characterized by failures disappointments and missteps It seemed for a time as though the Lloyd Webber formula which relied on swooning rapturous melodies and razzle dazzle had grown stale 80 Accusations of plagiarism EditAmong the accusations of plagiarism that Lloyd Webber has received the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen stated that he has yet to think up a single note in fact the poor guy s never invented one note by himself That s rather poor 84 Lloyd Webber s biographer John Snelson acknowledged a similarity between the andante movement of Mendelssohn s Violin Concerto in E minor and the Jesus Christ Superstar song I Don t Know How to Love Him but wrote that Lloyd Webber brings a new dramatic tension to Mendelssohn s original melody through the confused emotions of Mary Magdalene The opening theme may be Mendelssohn but the rhythmic and harmonic treatment along with new lines of highly effective melodic development are Lloyd Webber s The song works in its own right as its many performers and audiences can witness 84 An accusation of plagiarism regarded the 1971 Pink Floyd album Meddle The sixth track of the album Echoes has a riff on which Lloyd Webber allegedly based the opening organ riff in The Phantom of the Opera The two riffs share very similar notes and the order of the notes played Lloyd Webber s pipe organ riff from Phantom of the Opera plays D C C B A then ascending A B C C D Pink Floyd s Echoes plays C C B A A then ascending A A B C C Pink Floyd bassist and co lead vocalist Roger Waters pointed this out and said it was probably actionable but stated he did not care to take it to court 85 Noting similarities between Lloyd Webber s The Music of the Night and a recurring melody in Giacomo Puccini s 1910 opera La fanciulla del West The Girl of the Golden West in 1987 the Puccini estate filed a lawsuit against Lloyd Webber accusing him of plagiarism The case was settled out of court but details were not released to the public 86 The songwriter Ray Repp claimed in a court case that Lloyd Webber had stolen a melody from his own song Till You but the court ruled in Lloyd Webber s favour 87 Personal life EditLloyd Webber has been married three times He married first Sarah Hugill on 24 July 1971 and they divorced on 14 November 1983 Together they had two children a daughter and a son Imogen Lloyd Webber born 31 March 1977 Nicholas Lloyd Webber born 2 July 1979 Lloyd Webber middle with his then wife Sarah Brightman right in 1985 He would cast her as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera which debuted in London the following year He then married English soprano Sarah Brightman on 22 March 1984 in Hampshire He cast Brightman in the lead role in his musical The Phantom of the Opera among other notable roles They divorced on 3 January 1990 but have remained close friends and have also continued to work together 88 Thirdly he married Madeleine Gurdon in Westminster on 9 February 1991 They have three children two sons and one daughter all of whom were born in the same city Alastair Adam Lloyd Webber born 3 May 1992 William Richard Lloyd Webber born 24 August 1993 Isabella Aurora Lloyd Webber born 30 April 1996 Lloyd Webber and his third wife Madeleine founded the Watership Down Stud in 1992 In 1996 they expanded their equestrian holdings by purchasing Kiltinan Castle Stud near Fethard in County Tipperary Ireland 89 In a 1971 interview with The New York Times Lloyd Webber said he is an agnostic He also said he views Jesus as one of the great figures of history 90 He is a lifelong supporter of London based football club Leyton Orient F C 91 just like his younger brother Julian 92 In late 2009 Lloyd Webber had surgery for early stage prostate cancer 93 but had to be readmitted to hospital with post operative infection in November In January 2010 he declared he was cancer free 94 He had his prostate completely removed as a preventive measure 95 Wealth EditThe Sunday Times Rich List 2006 ranked him the 87th richest person in Britain with an estimated fortune of 700 million His wealth increased to 750 million in 2007 but the publication ranked him 101st in 2008 96 The Sunday Times Rich List of 2019 saw him ranked the richest musician in the UK overtaking Paul McCartney with a fortune of 820 million 97 He lives at Sydmonton Court Hampshire and owns much of nearby Watership Down 98 Lloyd Webber is an art collector with a passion for Victorian painting An exhibition of works from his collection was presented at the Royal Academy in 2003 under the title Pre Raphaelite and Other Masters The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection In 2006 Lloyd Webber planned to sell Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto by Pablo Picasso to benefit the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation 99 In November 2006 he withdrew the painting from auction after a claim that the previous owner had been forced to sell it under duress in Nazi Germany 100 An out of court settlement was reached where the foundation retained ownership rights 101 On 23 June 2010 the painting was sold at auction for 34 7 million to an anonymous telephone bidder 102 Politics EditLloyd Webber was made a Conservative life peer in 1997 103 however by the end of 2015 he had voted only 33 times 104 Politically Lloyd Webber has supported the UK s Conservative Party allowing his song Take That Look Off Your Face to be used on a party promotional film seen by an estimated 1 million people before the 2005 general election 105 In August 2014 Lloyd Webber was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run up to September s referendum on that issue 106 In October 2015 Lloyd Webber was involved in a contentious House of Lords vote over proposed cuts to tax credits voting with the Government in favour of the plan Lloyd Webber was denounced by his critics because he flew in from abroad on his personal plane to vote when his voting record was scant 107 108 In October 2017 Lloyd Webber retired from the House of Lords stating that his busy schedule was incompatible with the demands of Parliament considering the upcoming crucial Brexit legislation 109 In July 2021 he told Good Morning Britain that he would never vote for the Conservatives again due to their handling of the COVID 19 pandemic and poor treatment of the arts sector during that time 1 Awards and honours EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lloyd Webber was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1992 Birthday Honours for services to the arts 110 In the 1997 New Year Honours he was created a life peer as Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire 103 He is properly styled as The Lord Lloyd Webber the title is hyphenated although his surname is not 13 He sat as a Conservative member of the House of Lords until his retirement from the House on 17 October 2017 111 Theatre credits EditNote Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber unless otherwise noted The Likes of Us 1965 Lyrics by Tim Rice Book by Leslie Thomas Not produced until 2005 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1968 Lyrics by Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar 1970 Lyrics by Tim Rice Jeeves 1975 Book and lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn Revised in 1996 as By Jeeves Evita 1976 Lyrics by Tim Rice Tell Me on a Sunday 1979 Lyrics by Don Black Cats 1981 Lyrics based on Old Possum s Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot Additional lyrics after Eliot by Richard Stilgoe and Trevor Nunn Song and Dance 1982 Lyrics by Don Black revised by Richard Maltby Jr for Broadway Combination of Variations 1978 and Tell Me on a Sunday 1979 Starlight Express 1984 Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe Later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek Inspired by The Railway Series books by The Rev W Awdry Cricket 1986 Lyrics by Tim Rice First performed for Queen Elizabeth II s 60th birthday The Phantom of the Opera 1986 Lyrics by Charles Hart Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe Book by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber Based on the novel by Gaston Leroux Aspects of Love 1989 Lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber Based on the David Garnett novel Sunset Boulevard 1993 Book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black Based on the Billy Wilder film 1950 Whistle Down the Wind 1996 Lyrics by Jim Steinman Book by Patricia Knop Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gale Edwards The Beautiful Game 2000 Book and lyrics by Ben Elton Updated as The Boys in the Photograph 2009 The Woman in White 2004 Lyrics by David Zippel Book by Charlotte Jones Based on the Wilkie Collins novel Based on elements of the short story The Signal Man by Charles Dickens 112 Love Never Dies 2010 Book amp Lyrics by Glenn Slater Book by Ben Elton amp Frederick Forsyth Additional lyrics by Charles Hart The Wizard of Oz 2011 Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber amp Jeremy Sams Music by Harold Arlen Lyrics by E Y Harburg Additional music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Additional lyrics by Tim Rice Based on the 1939 motion picture The Wizard of Oz Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum Stephen Ward 2013 Book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black School of Rock 2015 Lyrics by Glenn Slater Book by Julian Fellowes Based on the 2003 film Cinderella 2021 Lyrics by David Zippel Book by Emerald Fennell Based on the classic story Gone with the Wind 2023 Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Tim Rice Based on the 1939 motion picture Gone with the Wind Based on the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellFilm adaptations EditThere have been a number of film adaptations of Lloyd Webber s musicals Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 directed by Norman Jewison Evita 1996 directed by Alan Parker The Phantom of the Opera 2004 directed by Joel Schumacher and co produced by Lloyd Webber and Cats 2019 directed by Tom Hooper and executive produced by Lloyd Webber Cats 1998 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1999 Jesus Christ Superstar 2000 and By Jeeves 2001 have been adapted into made for television films that have been released on DVD and VHS and often air on BBC A special performance of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall for the 25th anniversary was broadcast live to cinemas in early October 2011 and later released on DVD and Blu ray in February 2012 The same was also done with a reworked version of Love Never Dies Filmed in Melbourne Australia it received a limited cinema release in the US and Canada in 2012 to see if it would be viable to bring the show to Broadway Other works EditThe Odessa File 1974 Film score Variations 1978 A set of musical variations on Niccolo Paganini s Caprice in A minor that Lloyd Webber composed for his brother cellist Julian This album featured fifteen rock musicians including guitarist Gary Moore and pianist Rod Argent and reached number 2 in the UK album chart upon its release It was later combined with Tell Me on a Sunday to form one show Song and Dance Lloyd Webber also used variation five as the basis for Unexpected Song in Song and Dance The main theme is used as the theme music to The South Bank Show Requiem 1985 A classical choral work composed in honour of his father William Watership Down 1999 Lloyd Webber and Mike Batt main soundtrack composer of the animated series adaptation of Richard Adams novel of the same name composed the song Fields of Sun The actual song was never used on the show nor was it available on the CD soundtrack that was released at the time He was however still credited for the unused song in the show s opening titles Discography EditMusicals and show recordings Main article Andrew Lloyd Webber discography The Likes of Us 1965 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1968 Jesus Christ Superstar 1970 Jeeves 1975 Evita 1976 Tell Me on a Sunday 1979 Cats 1981 Song and Dance 1982 Starlight Express 1984 The Phantom of the Opera 1986 Aspects of Love 1989 Sunset Boulevard 1993 Whistle Down the Wind 1998 The Beautiful Game 2000 The Woman in White 2004 Love Never Dies 2010 The Wizard of Oz 2011 Stephen Ward 2013 School of Rock 2015 Cinderella 2021 Other albums Variations 1978 Variations with London Philharmonic Orchestra 1986 Symphonic Suites 2021 See also EditView of Geelong 1856 painting once owned by Lloyd WebberReferences Edit a b GMB 23 July 2021 Andrew Lloyd Webber emotionally tells PipTomson he will never vote Conservative again after the Impresario had to postpone the opening of his new show Cinderella because of self isolation rules Tweet via Twitter Andrew Lloyd Webber profile BBC Retrieved 18 February 2012 a b Citron Stephen 2001 Sondheim and Lloyd Webber the new musical Oxford University Press ISBN 9780195357271 The 100 most powerful people in British culture The Daily Telegraph 9 November 2016 Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Kennedy Center Honors Pictures CBS News Retrieved 27 September 2014 Explore the Arts The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Archived from the original on 3 November 2014 Retrieved 27 September 2014 Classic BRITs Outstanding Contributions amp Lifetime Achievement Awards Classic FM Retrieved 5 August 2015 John Legend Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice become EGOT winners The Guardian Retrieved 29 June 2019 Fellows The British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors Basca org uk Archived from the original on 30 October 2013 Retrieved 27 September 2014 What we do Archived 10 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Retrieved 16 August 2015 Why Paddington Bear Statues Have Taken Over London Conde Nast Retrieved 10 June 2022 Andrew Lloyd Webber honoured by Royal College of Music The stage Retrieved 29 June 2019 a b Lloyd Webber Baron Andrew Lloyd Webber born 22 March 1948 Who s Who 2007 doi 10 1093 ww 9780199540884 013 24803 Barratt Nick 7 July 2007 Family detective The Daily Telegraph Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Barnett Laura 8 January 2014 Julian Lloyd Webber cellist portrait of the artist The Guardian Retrieved 25 December 2014 Otis L Guernsey Jeffrey Sweet 1995 The Best Plays of 1994 1995 p 109 Limelight Editions Lloyd Webber Andrew 2018 Unmasked A Memoir p 41 2 London Harper Collins Katie Marsico 2010 How to Analyze the Works of Andrew Lloyd Webber pp 13 14 ABDO 2010 The Illustrated London News Volume 277 p 46 The Illustrated London News amp Sketch Ltd 1989 a b c d e Chandler David 2012 Everyone should have the opportunity Alan Doggett and the modern British musical Studies in Musical Theatre 6 3 275 289 doi 10 1386 smt 6 3 275 1 a b c Ellis Samantha Joseph London February 1973 The Guardian 24 September 2003 Gordon Robert Jubin Olaf 21 November 2016 The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199988754 via Google Books Robert Bradley 31 March 2017 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jesus Christ Superstar Springfield Contemporary Theatre London s Longest Running Musical To Close The Indianapolis Star 20 August 1980 p 25 Retrieved 8 June 2020 Sternfeld Jessica 2006 The Megamusical Indiana University Press p 169 ISBN 978 0 253 34793 0 Rice 1999 Andrew Lloyd Webber His Life and Works Walsh Michael 1989 revised and expanded 1997 p 82 Abrams New York By Jeeves Review The Guardian Retrieved 29 June 2019 Lloyd Webber to revive Evita show BBC News 31 January 2006 Retrieved on 29 June 2019 Evita at Prince Edward Theatre thisistheatre com retrieved 28 April 2022 Propst Andy 2019 The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre Rowman amp Littlefield p 155 Michael Coveney 1999 Cats on a Chandelier The Andrew Lloyd Webber Story p 89 Hutchinson This Is Your Life 1994 BFI Retrieved 30 November 2021 Cats IBDB com Internet Broadway Database a b The Phantom of the Opera IBDB com Internet Broadway Database Elaine Paige Full Official Chart History Official Charts Company Official Charts Company Retrieved 20 January 2016 International How Lloyd Webber s Starlight Express keeps on track in Germany The Stage 19 May 2016 Retrieved 3 July 2018 Snelson 2004 Snelson John Andrew Lloyd Webber Yale University Press 2009 p 223 Cricket The Musical Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Citron Stephen Sondheim and Lloyd Webber The New Musical Oxford University Press 2001 p 355 Top 10 Longest Running London Theatre Shows Londonist com Retrieved 29 June 2019 Michael Ball Artist Official Charts Retrieved 24 November 2019 Lloyd Webber Andrew Inspired By Sunset Boulevard Really Useful Group Archived from the original on 18 September 2008 Retrieved 11 June 2009 Wolf Matt As Sunsets fade Rug s new era dawns Variety 7 April 1997 13 April 1997 p 175 Singer Barry Ever After The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Hal Leonard Corporation 2004 ISBN 1 55783 529 2 p 97 WashingtonPost com Lloyd Webber Superstar www washingtonpost com Liebenson Donald 22 October 1998 One More Time Chicago Tribune Retrieved 5 April 2019 Preview and Cast of Cats PBS 24 October 2014 Archived from the original on 28 March 2019 Retrieved 28 March 2019 The Boys in the Photograph Marketing Information Public Season 08 The Boys in the Photograph Archived from the original on 14 April 2008 Retrieved 24 November 2019 LIPA s Performance season website Gans Andrew Lloyd Webber s Boys in the Photograph Will Have Workshop Run in U K Archived 15 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine playbill com 24 November 2019 Jones Kenneth Into the Mist Broadway s Woman in White Will Close Feb 19 Playbill 3 February 2006 How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria Panel Chosen Bbc co uk Retrieved 27 September 2014 1 Archived 25 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine The Kennedy Center Honors Archived 23 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine 2 Archived 27 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Lee wins Any Dream Will Do will become Joseph Pink News Retrieved 24 November 2019 Cat Destroys Lloyd Webber s Phantom Sequel Score Playbill 14 June 2007 Retrieved 11 December 2016 What is the Concert for Diana BBC 13 August 2015 Diana concert a perfect tribute BBC News Retrieved 12 April 2012 3 Archived 16 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine Original Bombay Dreams Cast London 2002 reallyuseful com Archived from the original on 25 January 2008 Retrieved 23 November 2019 Darvell Michael 21 December 2008 Andrew to help BBC find Oliver Andrew Lloyd Webber Archived from the original on 25 January 2008 Retrieved 29 June 2008 American Idol Tracker What s new Andrew Lloyd Webber Latimesblogs latimes com 18 April 2008 Retrieved 27 September 2014 Nikkhah Roya 31 January 2009 No more nul points at Eurovision The Daily Telegraph London Archived from the original on 3 February 2009 Retrieved 31 January 2009 Dunn Carrie 8 October 2009 Love Never Dies for Andrew Lloyd Webber s Phantom of the Opera The Guardian Retrieved 24 November 2019 Midgley Neil 11 September 2009 Andrew Lloyd Webber to audition dogs for The Wizard of Oz s Toto The Daily Telegraph UK Archived from the original on 14 September 2009 Retrieved 3 January 2010 Jesus Christ Superstar Arena Tour Archived from the original on 20 May 2012 Profumo musical set for West End The Belfast Telegraph 28 June 2013 Retrieved 28 June 2013 Matt Trueman Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage School of Rock Culture The Guardian Retrieved 26 August 2014 An Exciting Announcement SchoolofRock com Retrieved 20 January 2015 We here at School of Rock are so proud and excited to announce that we are now partnered with School of Rock the Musical Andrew Lloyd Webber and his team have expressed an enthusiastic interest in having School of Rock kids audition for roles in the show Audition for a Role in School of Rock Archived from the original on 12 January 2015 Retrieved 20 January 2015 We are holding band tryouts for rock stars ages 9 15 male and female who are great singers and actors We re also looking for talented kids who play drums bass guitar guitar and piano keyboard Show us your kid s chops and he or she could be on Broadway Sunset Boulevard English National Opera Retrieved 27 November 2019 Andrew Lloyd Webber Has 4 Musicals on Broadway At The Same Time NPR org Retrieved 24 November 2019 Brantley Ben 25 June 2017 Review That Sunset Boulevard Close Up Finely Focused The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Joshua Barone 5 March 2018 5 Things We Learned From Andrew Lloyd Webber s New Memoir The New York Times Retrieved 7 March 2018 Andrew Lloyd Webber John Legend and Tim Rice join the ranks of EGOT winners The Telegraph Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 29 June 2019 Vlessing Etan 24 October 2019 Andrew Lloyd Webber Talks Working With Taylor Swift on New Cats Song The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved 25 October 2019 Andrew Lloyd Webber calls Cats film ridiculous The Guardian Retrieved 6 August 2020 a b Lang Brent Andrew Lloyd Webber on Broadway s Reopening Cinderella and Why the Cats Movie Caused Him to Buy a Dog Variety 10 October 2021 Wood Alex Andrew Lloyd Webber s Cinderella delays opening until October WhatsOnStage com Retrieved 3 December 2020 Wiegand Chris 10 January 2020 Killing Eve s Emerald Fennell and Andrew Lloyd Webber create new Cinderella The Guardian Retrieved 10 January 2020 Andrew Lloyd Webber prepared to be arrested over theatre reopening BBC News 9 June 2021 Retrieved 9 June 2021 a b Moutby Adrian 9 January 2004 The high brow just don t know how to love him Times Higher Education Retrieved 29 March 2012 Who the hell does Roger Waters think he is Q Magazine November 1992 Archived from the original on 5 December 1998 Retrieved 20 November 2009 Ouzounian Richard 2 January 2006 Aspects of Andrew Toronto Star via EBSCOHost Research Database Lloyd Webber wins Phantom battle News bbc co uk 16 December 1998 Retrieved 27 September 2014 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman to reunite for special festive show The Independent Retrieved 31 October 2022 Watership Down Stud and Kiltinan Castle Stud Guy Flatley 12 April 2020 They rote It And They re Glad The New York Times New York City Retrieved 12 April 2020 Lesser known Andrew Lloyd Webber facts The Stage Retrieved 29 January 2020 Tim Walker 16 June 2009 Julian Lloyd Webber is to marry for a fourth time The Daily Telegraph London Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 14 April 2012 Lloyd Webber treated for cancer BBC News 25 October 2009 Archived from the original on 26 October 2009 Retrieved 25 October 2009 Andrew Lloyd Webber gets cancer all clear News bbc co uk 11 January 2010 Retrieved 27 September 2014 Trouble down below by Philip Hodson The Independent The Independent London 6 May 2014 Retrieved 27 September 2014 Rich List 2007 Sunday Times London Retrieved 2 October 2008 Ed Sheeran tops Adele as Stormzy joins Sunday Times Rich List BBC News BBC 9 May 2019 Retrieved 9 May 2019 Lloyd Webber Andrew 2018 Unmasked A Memoir p 188 London Harper Collins Andrew Lloyd Webber Auctions Art For Charity Bloomberg com 17 March 2010 Retrieved 27 September 2014 Picasso s Angel Fernandez de Soto withdrawn from Christie s sale The Art Wolf 6 November 2006 Archived from the original on 23 March 2010 Retrieved 18 March 2010 Lloyd Webber s Picasso to be sold after Nazi row settled Agence France Presse 17 March 2010 Archived from the original on 26 November 2013 Retrieved 18 March 2010 Picasso reaches 34 7m in Christie s auction BBC News 24 June 2010 Archived from the original on 26 June 2010 Retrieved 26 June 2010 a b No 54689 The London Gazette 25 February 1997 p 2341 Voting Record Lord Lloyd Webber 13305 The Public Whip www publicwhip org uk Take that look off your face Mr Blair told Conservative Party 13 April 2005 Archived from the original on 4 July 2007 Celebrities open letter to Scotland full text and list of signatories The Guardian 7 August 2014 Retrieved 26 August 2014 Deacon Michael 26 October 2015 George Osborne tax credits and the quiet revenge of the Lords The Daily Telegraph Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 27 October 2015 Troup Buchanan Rose 27 October 2015 Desperate Tories flew in peer Andrew Lloyd Webber from New York to prop up government vote on tax credits The Independent Retrieved 28 October 2015 Elgot Jessica 16 October 2017 Andrew Lloyd Webber quits as Conservative peer The Guardian Retrieved 17 October 2017 No 52952 The London Gazette Supplement 12 June 1992 p 2 Andrew Lloyd Webber quits as Tory peer as he claims House of Lords demands more time than ever before The Telegraph Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 29 June 2019 Austin Jeremy 2004 Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber The Woman in White Education Pack pg 14Further reading EditPre Raphaelite and Other Masters The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection Royal Academy of Arts London 2003 ISBN 1 903973 39 2 Cats on a Chandelier Coveney M 1999 Hutchinson London Oh What a Circus Rice Tim 1999 Hodder amp Stoughton London Andrew Lloyd Webber Snelson John 2004 Yale University Press New Haven CT ISBN 0 300 10459 6 Andrew Lloyd Webber His Life and Works Walsh Michael 1989 revised and expanded 1997 Abrams New YorkExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andrew Lloyd Webber Official website Biography at the Really Useful Group Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Internet Broadway Database Andrew Lloyd Webber at IMDb Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber in International Songwriters Association s Songwriter Magazine Awards and achievementsPreceded byStephen Sondheimfor Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album1980for Evita shared with Tim Rice Succeeded byQuincy Jones for Lena Horne The Lady and Her MusicPreceded byHenry Krieger Composer Tom Eyen Lyricist David Foster Producer for Dreamgirls Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album1983for Cats Succeeded byStephen Sondheim Composer and Lyricist Thomas Z Shepardfor Sunday in the Park with GeorgePreceded byNone Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition1985for Requiem Succeeded byWitold Lutoslawskifor Symphony No 3Orders of precedence in the United KingdomPreceded byThe Lord Whitty GentlemenBaron Lloyd Webber Followed byThe Lord Hoyle Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Andrew Lloyd Webber amp oldid 1131535367, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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