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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, KG (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. 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.
Oct 5, 2024 · Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and theatrical producer whose eclectic rock-based works helped revitalize British and American musical theater, beginning in the late 20th century. His notable productions include Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 26, 2023 · Queen Elizabeth II acknowledged Lloyd Webber's accomplishments twice. In 1996, he was elevated to the British peerage, and named Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire, reported Broadway Show Tickets. He was also knighted in 1992 by the Queen for services to music.
- Sandra Mardenfeld
- Andrew Lloyd Webber shares his birthday with another musical great. 22 March must be a musically charged day because American stage composer Stephen Sondheim shares Andrew’s birthday.
- Andrew was a child prodigy. Not only was Andrew playing the piano and violin at the age of three, he began playing the French horn and writing his own music at age six.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber’s wife is Madeleine Gurdon. The Lord… sorry, Baron of musical theatre married the former equestrian sportswoman in 1991 and they’re still happily married to this day.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber has five children. Andrew Lloyd Webber has two children with first wife Sarah Hugill – Imogen Lloyd Webber born in 1977 and Nicholas Lloyd Webber born in 1979 – and three children with current wife Madeleine Gurdon – Alastair Lloyd Webber born in 1992, William Lloyd Webber born in 1993, and Isabella Aurora Lloyd Webber born in 1996.
- Maddy Shaw Roberts
- Love Never Dies. Love Never Dies, the fan favourite sequel to Lloyd Webber’s megahit Phantom of the Opera, was first previewed on the West End in 2010, but closed soon after and never made it to Broadway.
- Aspects of Love. A revival of this 1989 musical reopened in London this year starring Michael Ball and Danielle De Niese but will soon be closing in West End, three months ahead of schedule.
- School of Rock. Lloyd Webber’s rock musical had a strong foundation from the off, being based on the 2003 movie hit starring Jack Black as Dewey Finn, a rock guitarist-cum-substitute teacher.
- Cinderella. Cinderella was Lloyd Webber’s 13th new musical, and it earned the composer some of the best reviews of his career. Its leading lady, powerhouse musical theatre star Carrie Hope Fletcher, delivers the heart-wrenching ballad ‘I Know I Have a Heart’ with aplomb, and the book, by Oscar-winning Emerald Fennel (The Crown) is funny and charming.
Aug 7, 2015 · Lloyd Webber – or Lord Lloyd-Webber, who gained a hyphen at the same time as being made a Conservative life peer in 1997 – is looking forward once again. This week he proclaimed in a lengthy ...
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May 30, 2023 · Figure 1: Andrew Lloyd Webber (©Wall to Wall) The composer and supremo of musical theatre Andrew Lloyd Webber – knighted in 1992 and given a life peerage in 1997, making him Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton & – clearly has music in his bones.
