Andrew Lloyd Webber
22 March 1948 – present
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and theatre producer known for musicals written from the late 1960s onward, many with long runs in the West End and on Broadway. His works include Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, several written with lyricist Tim Rice. He founded the Really Useful Group in 1977 and was made a life peer in 1997.
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Life events
Son of composer William Lloyd Webber and piano teacher Jean Johnstone.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe left Oxford after a term to pursue musical theatre.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTheir first joint work was the musical The Likes of Us.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWritten as a short school cantata, it was later expanded for the commercial stage.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe album preceded the Broadway staging that opened in October 1971.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe musical about Eva Peron was his last major collaboration with Tim Rice.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBased on T. S. Eliot's verse, it ran in the West End for 21 years.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis second marriage; the couple divorced in 1990, and he married Madeleine Gurdon in 1991.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIt became one of the longest-running musicals in West End and Broadway history.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe had been knighted five years earlier, in 1992.
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