Andrew Lloyd Webber



Andre Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 in South Kensington, United Kingdom. He is the sun of the composer William Lloyd Webber and the piano teacher Jean Johnstone Lloyd Webber. He has one brother Julian Lloyd Webber who is a cellist, and was born in 1951.

His undeniable talent for soaring, memorable, or "sticky" melody makes him nearly unique in a world short on hummable tunes.
Lloyd Webber first gained success at the age of nineteen, when he and Tim Rice were commissioned to write Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a high school in 1968. The musical was a hit; a slightly rewritten version was soon produced by the Edinburgh Festival.
Lloyd Webber and Rice continued to collaborate and later produced Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and Evita (1976), both of which were released as albums before being brought to the stage.
The two parted ways soon after, and Lloyd Webber's next large success was 1981's Cats. Cats was the longest running Broadway musical, spanning a reign of more than twenty years.
Next, he wrote Starlight Express, which was a commercial hit but panned by the critics. In 1986, he premiered his next musical, The Phantom of the Opera, inspired by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel. Although met with mixed reviews in New York, it became a hit and is still running; in January 2006 it overtook Cats as the longest-running musical on Broadway.
His many other musical theatre works include The Likes of Us, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, Song and Dance, The Beautiful Game and The Woman in White.


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