Everything about Andrew Lloyd-webber totally explained
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born
March 22,
1948) is a highly successful
British composer of
musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist
Julian Lloyd Webber.
Webber started composing at the age of six and published his first piece when he was 9.
Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both in the
West End and on
Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a
song cycle, a set of
variations, two
film scores, and a Latin
Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honors, including a knighthood in 1992 followed by a peerage, three
Tony Awards, three
Grammy Awards, an
Oscar, an
International Emmy, six
Olivier Awards, a
Golden Globe, and the
Kennedy Center Honors in
2006. Several of his songs, notably "
I Don't Know How to Love Him" from
Jesus Christ Superstar, "
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from
Evita, "
Memory" from
Cats, and "
The Music of the Night" from
The Phantom of the Opera have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. 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 Lloyd Webber's musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group.
Personal history
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is the son of Jean Hermione (Johnstone), a violinist and pianist, and
William Lloyd Webber, a composer. His younger brother,
Julian Lloyd Webber is a
cellist. As a child, he couldn't bear noises made by others. At the age of three, when brought to his first day of pre-school at a school where his mother worked, he covered his ears when other children produced sounds with musical instruments. Lloyd Webber began writing his own music at a young age. He wrote his first published suite of six pieces at the age of nine. He also put on "productions" with Julian and his Aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at the suggestion of Viola). Later, he'd be the owner of a number of
West End theatres, including the
Palace. His Aunt Viola, an actress, took Lloyd Webber to see many of her shows and through the stage-door into the world of the theatre.
Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at
Westminster School and studied history for a time at
Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course to pursue his interest in musical theatre.
His first wife was Sarah Hugill. They married on
24 July 1972 and had two children,
Imogen (born
31 March 1977) and Nicholas (born
2 July 1979). Lloyd Webber and Hugill were divorced in 1983, and he married singer/dancer
Sarah Brightman on
22 March 1984. He cast Brightman as Christine, the lead role in his musical,
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical). They divorced in 1990 but remained friends.
He married his third wife,
Madeleine Gurdon, on
9 February 1991, and they'd three children: Alastair (born
3 May 1992), William (born
24 August 1993), and Isabella (born
30 April 1996). Alastair and William attend the prestigious boarding school
Eton College.
Knighted in 1992, he was created a
life peer in 1997 as
Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire (his title is hyphenated but his surname is not). In 2006,
Sunday Times Rich List ranked him the 87
th richest Briton with an estimated £700 million. His wealth increased to £750 million in 2007, but in the
Sunday Times Rich List 2007 he slipped to the 95
th richest British person. He also owns much of
Watership Down, the down made famous by
Richard Adams' novel of the same name. Politically, he's 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 in 80 cinemas before the 2005 UK General Election to accompany pictures of the country's Prime Minister
Tony Blair allegedly "smirking", the party said.
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Lord Lloyd-Webber is an art collector with a passion for Victorian art. 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. He is also a devoted supporter of
Leyton Orient Football Club.
Professional career
Early years
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's second major collaboration with lyricist
Tim Rice was
The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of
Thomas John Barnardo. It wasn't performed, however, until as recently as 2005 when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's
Sydmonton Festival. Stylistically,
The Likes of Us is fashioned after the Broadway musical of the '40s and '50s; 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's markedly different from the composer's later work which tends to be either predominantly or wholly
through-composed and closer in form to opera than to the Broadway musical.
Around this time, Lloyd Webber and Rice also wrote a number of individual pop songs that were recorded as singles for record labels.
Wes Sands,
Ross Hannaman,
Paul Raven, and Gary Bond are among the many artists to have recorded early Lloyd Webber/Rice tunes. A selection of these early recordings were re-released on the 5-CD compilation,
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now and Forever (2003).
In 1967, Lloyd Webber and Rice wrote a song for the
Eurovision Song Contest called "Try It and see", which was unsuccessful. The tune of this song eventually became the tune for "King Herod's Song" in the musical
Jesus Christ Superstar.
In 1968, Lloyd Webber and Rice were commissioned to write a piece for
Colet Court which resulted in
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiche a number of musical styles such as
Calypso and
country music. The musical follows the light-hearted, irreverent tone of
The Likes of Us but is more modern in style, with a closer affinity to contemporary pop music than its predecessor and reflecting a wider range of musical styles. Andrew Lloyd Webber, who is a devoted admirer of
Elvis Presley, based the character of Pharaoh on the singer, who in turn recorded
It's Easy for You, one of Lloyd Webber's compositions during his last session on
October 29,
1976, and featured as the last track on the
Moody Blue album.
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, the show underwent a number of revisions by Lloyd Webber and Rice with the inclusion of additional songs that expanded the musical to a more substantial length. This culminated in a two hour long production being staged in the
West End on the back of the success of their third musical,
Jesus Christ Superstar (1970).
"Jesus Christ Superstar" had been released as a concept album starring
Ian Gillan prior to being staged in the West End at the
Lyceum Theatre. The musical is based on the last days in the life of Jesus Christ. While Joseph was intended as a light-hearted family show, the music in
Jesus Christ Superstar is at times dark and unsettling, particularly in the scenes that deal with the crucifixion, the plotting priests and the conflict between Jesus and Judas. The rock idiom is used as a thematic device in
Jesus Christ Superstar and the musical was billed as a Rock Opera in much the same way as
Tommy by
The Who had been before it. However, some of the music is inherently classical in style, particularly the instrumental passages such as John Nineteen: Forty-One and the more avant-garde music that accompanies the crucifixion scene.
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 (Rice, 1999). After doing some initial work on the lyrics, he pulled out of the project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical with
Alan Ayckbourn who provided the book and lyrics. The musical,
Jeeves, failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a short run of only three weeks. Many years later Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn revisited this project, producing a thoroughly reworked and more successful version of the musical entitled
By Jeeves (1996). Only two of the songs from the original production remained ("Half a Moment" and "Banjo Boy").
Mid-1970s onwards
Lloyd Webber collaborated with Rice once again to write
Evita (1976 in London/1979 in U.S.), a musical based on the life of
Eva Peron. As with
Jesus Christ Superstar, the musical was released first as a concept album and featured
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
Prince Edward Theatre in a production directed by
Harold Prince and starring
Elaine Paige in the title role. The first Eva Peron on Broadway in NYC was played by Patti Lupone. She won a Tony for the role, and after experienced growth of nodes on her vocal cords. Much of the music in
Evita is classical in style, the opening featuring a choral piece ("Requiem for Evita") as well as a choral interlude in "Oh What a Circus". There are a number of instrumental passages throughout the musical such as the orchestral version of the "Lament" and the introduction to "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," all of which form an integral part of the framework of the composition. There is, however, quite an eclectic use of styles in
Evita, with some gentle ballads such as "High Flying, Adored" and "Another Suitcase in Another Hall", and the rhythmic, Latinate styles prominent in pieces such as "Buenos Aires", "And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out)" as well as the slower "On This Night of a Thousand Stars". There is some rock music that can be heard briefly in "Oh What a Circus", "Peron's Latest Flame" and "The Lady's Got Potential" (a rock song that was cut from the original production but reinstated for the 1996 film with revised lyrics by Tim Rice).
Evita was a highly successful show that ran for ten years in the West End. It transferred to
Broadway in 1979. Rice and Lloyd Webber parted ways soon after
Evita.
Lloyd Webber then embarked on a solo project, the
Variations (album), with his cellist brother
Julian Lloyd Webber based on the 24th Caprice by
Paganini. It was a massive hit in the United Kingdom reaching number two in the pop album chart (1978). The main theme is still used as the theme tune for London Weekend Television's long-running
South Bank Show.
1980s
Andrew Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead to the poetry of
T. S. Eliot.
Cats (1981) is a dance musical based on Eliot's
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), which the composer recalled as having been a childhood favourite. The songs of the musical comprise Eliot's verse set to music by the composer, the principal exception being the most famous song from the musical, "Memory", for which the lyrics were written by
Trevor Nunn after an Eliot poem entitled "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". Also, a brief song entitled "The Moments of Happiness" was taken from a passage in Eliot's
Four Quartets. An unusual musical in terms of its construction, the overture incorporates a fugue and there are occasions when the music accompanies spoken verse. The set, consisting of an oversized junk yard, remains the same throughout the show without any scene changes. Lloyd Webber's
eclecticism is very strong here; musical genres range from classical to pop, music hall, jazz and
electroacoustic music as well as
hymn-like songs such as "The Addressing of Cats", which Old Deuteronomy sings. Cats was originally intended to be a song cycle but when Valerie Eliot provided some fragments of unpublished poetry by her late husband that included a character named Grizabella who is shunned by the tribe as well as the concept of a rebirth for a chosen Cat at the Jellicle Ball, it was apparent that there might be a story that could provide a possible framework for a musical. It was to become the longest running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years until it closed, and on Broadway, spanning a reign of eighteen years which later would be broken by another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Starlight Express, a musical also directed by Trevor Nunn, is similar in its theatrical concept to
Cats in that it also features dancers in costume representing non-human characters. However, unlike
Cats, the music is mostly in the realm of disco and pop with one or two pastiche songs such as the Country and Western styled "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D". In some ways this musical could be seen as more of a return to the style of
Joseph, although the latter was more varied in its use of musical styles and influences.
Starlight Express was a commercial hit but received negative reviews from the critics. It enjoyed a record run in the West End, but ran for less than three years on Broadway.
Lloyd Webber wrote a
Requiem Mass which premiered in New York on
25 February,
1985, at St. Thomas Church. This composition had been inspired by an article he'd read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. It was dedicated to his father,
William Lloyd Webber, who had died in 1982. Although this might seem like a surprising shift in direction from the modern musical, church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and Lloyd Webber had on a number of occasions written sacred music for the annual
Sydmonton Festival (Snelson, 2004). Lloyd Webber received a
Grammy Award in 1986 for Requiem in the category of best classical composition. Perhaps surprisingly given the classical nature of the work, the
Pie Jesu from Requiem achieved a high placing on the UK pop charts.
In 1986, Lloyd Webber premiered his next musical,
The Phantom of the Opera, 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 the musical with some additional material provided by
Richard Stilgoe, and Lloyd Webber co-wrote the musical's book with Stilgoe. Lloyd Webber's score is sometimes operatic in style but he maintains the form and structure of a musical throughout. The fully-fledged operatic writing is reserved principally for the subsidiary characters such as the theatre managers, Andre and Firmin; their Prima Donna, Carlotta; and principal tenor, Piangi. Fittingly, it's also used to provide the content of the fictional "operas" that are taking place within the show itself. Here, Lloyd Webber affectionately pastiches various styles from the grand operas of Meyerbeer through to Mozart and even Gilbert and Sullivan (Coveney, 1999). These pieces are often presented as musical fragments, interrupted by dialogue or action sequences in order to clearly define the musical's "show within a show" format. The musical extracts we hear from the phantom's opera, "Don Juan Triumphant", during the latter stages of the show, are much more dissonant and modern - suggesting, perhaps, that the phantom is ahead of his time artistically (Snelson, 2004). This is also displayed when The Phantom makes his entrance on the show's title song. Andrew had said himself that the title song was "Rock n' roll merely masquerading as opera." For the characters of Christine, the Phantom, and Raoul, the direct and "natural" style of modern song is used rather than the more decorative aspects of aria; their material provides the musical centre of the piece.
The musical became a phenomenal hit and is still running in both the West End and on Broadway; in January 2006 it overtook
Cats as the longest running musical on Broadway.
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. There was a noticeable shift of emphasis towards a quieter and more intimate theatrical experience; the staging and production values were less elaborate than Phantom of the Opera and Lloyd Webber chose to write for a smaller musical ensemble making the through composed score more akin to a chamber work. The musical had a successful run of four years in London but didn't fare nearly as well on Broadway, where it closed after less than a year.
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
Jose Carreras.
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 The composer worked with two collaborators, as he'd done on
Aspects of Love; this time Christopher Hampton and
Don Black shared equal credit for the book and lyrics. The show opened at the
Adelphi Theatre in London on
12 July,
1993, and ran for 1,529 performances.
Patti LuPone, who had played the role of Eva Peron in the original Broadway production of
Evita, was cast as Norma Desmond, a former silent film star who is shunned by Hollywood in the era of
talking pictures. Lloyd Webber wrote for a larger musical ensemble than he'd done on
Aspects of Love; the sweeping romanticism of the overture and of Norma Desmond's themes echo the grandiose style associated with the golden era of
Hollywood, whilst the jazz elements in the score and the restless quality of
Joe Gillis's music are used, in contrast, to represent a more modern age. Although
Sunset Boulevard is a
book musical, the score is predominantly
through-composed with much of the dialogue underscored and
recitatives used at certain key moments between songs. 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.
Lloyd Webber's many other musical theatre works include
Whistle Down the Wind,
Song and Dance,
The Woman in White and
The Beautiful Game (musical) which has just been re-worked into a new musical
The Boys in the Photograph which had its world premier at
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in April 2008 . While some of his works have had enormous commercial success, his career hasn't been without failures, especially in the United States.
Song and Dance,
Starlight Express, and
Aspects of Love, all successes in London, didn't meet the same reception in New York, and all lost money in short, critically panned runs. In 1995,
Sunset Boulevard became a very successful Broadway show, opening with the largest advance in Broadway history, and winning seven Tony Awards that year. However, owing to high weekly costs, it became the biggest economic musical failure in history, losing 25 million dollars. His subsequent shows (
Whistle Down the Wind and
The Beautiful Game) didn't make it to Broadway, and his most recent musical
The Woman in White closed after a very short run in New York. This closing is largely credited to many absences in the cast for many of the shows; only 39 of the 108 performances had the full cast.
Maria Friedman and
Michael Ball both missed shows frequently; the former was battling
breast cancer and the latter suffered a throat infection.
Somewhat unusually, Lloyd Webber (along with
Nigel Wright) was responsible for a 1992
Eurodance single featuring music from the computer game
Tetris. Released under the name
Doctor Spin,
Tetris reached #6 on the
UK charts, although Lloyd Webber's involvement wasn't publicised. He was also involved with
Bombalurina's 1990 cover of "
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" (UK #1). The band, whose lead singer was children's TV presenter
Timmy Mallett was named after a character in the musical
Cats.
2000s to present day
Lloyd Webber is currently producing a staging of
The Sound of Music, which debuted November
2006. He made the controversial decision to choose an unknown to play leading lady Maria, who was found through the
reality television show
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, in which he was a judge. The winner of the show was
Connie Fisher.
There have been a number of film adaptations of Lloyd Webber's musicals:
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) was directed by
Norman Jewison,
Evita (1996) was directed by
Alan Parker, and most recently
The Phantom of the Opera was directed by
Joel Schumacher (and co-produced by Lloyd Webber). Lloyd Webber produced
Bombay Dreams with
Indian composer
A. R. Rahman in 2002.
It was announced on
25 August,
2006, on his personal website that his next project would be
The Master and Margarita (however, Lloyd Webber has stated that the project will most likely be an opera rather than a musical).
In September 2006, Lloyd Webber was named to be a recipient of the prestigious
Kennedy Center Honors along with
Zubin Mehta,
Dolly Parton,
Steven Spielberg, and
Smokey Robinson. He was recognized for his outstanding contribution to American performing arts. He attended the ceremony on
December 3,
2006; it aired on
December 26,
2006.
On
February 11,
2007, Lloyd Webber was featured as a guest judge on the
reality television show
(External Link). The contestants all sang "The Phantom of the Opera". On his website, Lloyd Webber announced that he was planning to write a sequel to
The Phantom of the Opera, based on the novel,
The Phantom of Manhattan, by
Frederick Forsyth, who will collaborate. The sequel is to be set in New York, although no further details have been given. In June 2007, parts of the new musical were inadvertently destroyed when Lloyd Webber's cat, Otto, climbed up on his
Clavinova digital piano, jumped onto the computer that held the score, and caused the score to be erased.
Between April and June 2007, 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.
Lloyd Webber's
Really Useful Group on
27 June 2007(External Link) announced that it would donate all receipts from two special benefit performances of the revived
West End production of
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (starring
Lee Mead) to
Children in Need. The charity would benefit from ticket sales income from the
July 16 booked-out preview and the sold-out performance on
16 November, the night of the annual
Children in Need telethon. Cast members, the group said, wouldn't get the usual first night gifts on
17 July – the money would, instead go to the
Children in Need. Before the viewers' votes were known, Lloyd Webber told
Lee Mead: "You're a fantastic performer...You're phenomenal. You're a great showman. You've got everything there."
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On
1 July,
2007, Lloyd Webber presented excerpts from his musicals as part of the
Concert for Diana organized to celebrate the life of
Diana, Princess of Wales. The finale was
Any Dream Will Do sung by the movie Joseph,
Donny Osmond, 1991's stage Joseph,
Jason Donovan, and 2007 Joseph, talent search winner
Mead. The concert was seen in full or in highlights shows in 140 countries by between 500 million and 1 billion, according to
BBC One anchors
Jamie Theakston and
Claudia Winkleman on air.
On the
November 16, he appeared on BBC's
Children in Need, donating a cheque for £166,000.
The BBC's
Radio 2 broadcasted a concert of music from Lloyd Webber's shows on
August 24,
2007.
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 Rogers and Hammerstein's
The Sound of Music, which Lloyd Webber revived in 2006 at the
London Palladium and 2002's Lloyd Webber-produced
Bollywood-style musical
Bombay Dreams by
A. R. Rahman and
Don Black.
Among the artists that appeared were
Lee Mead, voted by viewers to take the lead in
Joseph in
BBC One's 2007 television search for a star
Any Dream Will Do;
Connie Fisher, who won the lead in
The Sound of Music in
BBC One's first search for a new
West End star,
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?; former
Boyzone singer
Stephen Gately, who played Joseph in the 2003 tour of that show;
Preeya Kalidas, cast opposite
Mead in the 2007 revival of
Joseph and the female lead in
Bombay Dreams ; Elena Roger, the lead in the 2006 revival of
Evita; Dean Collinson, appearing as Pharaoh in 2007's revived
Joseph;
Aoife Mulholland, the alternate for Connie Fisher as Maria in
The Sound of Music;
Duncan James, who had just come out of a
West End revival of
Chicago and The Capital Voices. Mike Dixon conducted the
BBC Concert Orchestra.
On
28 February 2008, Andrew made a guest star appearance in
Hollyoaks, publicising a cross-over storyline involving the character
Summer Shaw. He appeared on
American Idol on April 22, 2008, giving help to the contestants as they sang his music.
In April 2008, Lloyd Webber reprised his role as judge, this time in the BBC musical talent show,
I'd Do Anything. The show follows a similar format to its 'Maria' and 'Joseph' predecessors, this time involving a search for an actress to play the role of Nancy in an upcoming West End production of the
Lionel Bart musical
Oliver! The show also features a search for a young actor to play the title character, however the show's main focus is on the search for Nancy. Also in April 2008 he was featured on the U.S. talent show
American Idol, when the 6 finalists had to select one of Lloyd Webber's songs to perform for the judges that week.
Titles
- Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber (1992-1997)
- The Rt Hon. The Lord Lloyd-Webber (1997-)
Tours
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber 1988
Jesus Christ Superstar
"Jesus Christ Superstar Overture" - The Orchestra
"Superstar" - Michael Ball
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" - Sarah Brightman
"Hosanna" - Michael Ball
Evita
"High Flying Adored" - Michael Ball
"Another Suitcase in Another Hall" - Sarah Brightman
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
"Close Every Door" - Michael Ball
"Any Dream Will Do / Give Me My Coloured Coat" - Michael Ball & Cast
Tell Me on a Sunday
"Unexpected Song" - Sarah Brightman
"Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad" - Sarah Brightman
Cats
"The Jellicle Ball" - The Orchestra
"Mr. Mistoffelees" - Michael Ball
"Memory" - Sarah Brightman
Requiem (Webber)
"Pie Jesu" - Sarah Brightman & James Rainbird
The Phantom of the Opera
"Think of Me" - Sarah Brightman
"All I Ask of You" - Sarah Brightman & Michael Ball
"Little Lottie" - Sarah Brightman
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" - Sarah Brightman
"The Music of the Night" - Sarah Brightman
Encore: Evita
"Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" - Sarah Brightman
Awards
Academy Award: Best Music, Original Song, Evita (1996)
Golden Globe Award: Best Original Song "You Must Love Me" - Motion Picture, Evita (1997)
3 Tony Awards wins (plus 9 additional nominations)
7 Laurence Olivier Awards (including Special Award presented for his 60th birthday in 2008)
3 Grammy Awards
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for live theatre (1993)
Kennedy Center Honors (2006)
Shows
» Note: Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber unless otherwise noted.
Other works
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 Lloyd Webber.
Discography
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