Birth Place: London, ENGLAND
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.
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". 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."
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. He is one of 17 people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. 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.
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. 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).
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Blvd.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, School of Rock
Andrew Lloyd Webber, School of Rock
Andrew Lloyd WebberSchool of Rock
Andrew Lloyd Webber, School of Rock-The Musical
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Love Never Dies
Andrew Lloyd, The Phantom Of The Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Woman in White
Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Woman In White
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tell Me On A Sunday
Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Beautiful Game
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Whistle Down The Wind
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Boulevard
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Boulevard
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aspects of Love
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aspects of Love
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aspects of Love
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Starlight Express
Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom Of The Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Song and Dance
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Starlight Express
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats
Andrew Lloyd Weber, Evita
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Evita
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Evita
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Evita
Andre Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar
Andrew Lloyd Webber has written 25 shows including Jesus Christ Superstar (Composer), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Composer), Jeeves (Composer), Evita (Composer), Cats (Composer), Song and Dance (Composer), Starlight Express (Composer), Cricket (Composer), Aspects of Love (Bookwriter), Sunset Boulevard (Composer), By Jeeves (Composer), Whistle Down The Wind (Composer), The Beautiful Game (Composer), Bombay Dreams (Source Material), Tell Me on a Sunday (Composer), The Woman in White (Composer), The Likes of Us (Composer), Love Never Dies (Composer), Tell Me on a Sunday (Composer), School of Rock (Music), Unmasked (Composer), Cats (Composer/Lyricist), The Phantom of the Opera (Bookwriter), Bad Cinderella (Composer), Masquerade (Music).
Best Orchestrations (Tony Awards) for Sunset Blvd., Lifetime Achievement Award (Tony Awards), Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for School of Rock, Outstanding Orchestrations (Drama Desk Awards) for School of Rock, Best Musical (Tony Awards) for School of Rock, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for School of Rock-The Musical, Best New Musical (Olivier Awards) for Love Never Dies, The Audience Award for Most Popular Show (Olivier Awards) for The Phantom Of The Opera, Special Award (Olivier Awards), Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for The Woman in White, Best New Musical (Olivier Awards) for The Woman In White, Outstanding Musical Production (Olivier Awards) for Tell Me On A Sunday, Best New Musical (Olivier Awards) for The Beautiful Game, The American Express Award for Best New Musical (Olivier Awards) for Whistle Down The Wind, Outstanding Musical Production (Olivier Awards) for Jesus Christ Superstar, Distinguished Achivement in Musical Theatre (Drama League Awards), Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Sunset Boulevard, The American Express Award for Best New Musical (Olivier Awards) for Sunset Boulevard, Best Musical Revival (Olivier Awards) for Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for Aspects of Love, Best Book of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Aspects of Love, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Aspects of Love, Outstanding Orchestration (Drama Desk Awards) for Phantom of the Opera, Best Musical (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for The Phantom of the Opera, Best Book of a Musical (Tony Awards) for The Phantom of the Opera, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for The Phantom of the Opera, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Starlight Express, Musical of the Year (Olivier Awards) for The Phantom Of The Opera, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Song and Dance, Musical of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Starlight Express, Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for Cats, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Cats, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Musical of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Cats, Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for Evita, Best Musical (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for Evita, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Evita, Musical of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Evita, Most Promising Composer (Drama Desk Awards) for Jesus Christ Superstar and Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Jesus Christ Superstar.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has received numerous prestigious awards throughout his career. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tony Awards and a Special Award from the Olivier Awards. He was honored with the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award from the Drama League Awards. His show Sunset Boulevard earned him the Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre. He received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestration for Phantom of the Opera, which also won Musical of the Year at the Olivier Awards. Cats earned him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music as well as Musical of the Year at the Olivier Awards. For Evita, he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the Tony Award for Best Original Score, and Musical of the Year at the Olivier Awards. Additionally, he received the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Composer for Jesus Christ Superstar.
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