Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is a British composer born in 1948 who is famous for creating music for theatrical productions. He matters because his compositions have had enormous influence on modern musical theatre, making him one of the most significant figures in the industry.
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- 1948
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- Evita
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- Song dance
- Cats
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber 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 13 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 hits outside of their parent musicals,…
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- An Evening with Elton John and Brandi Carlile — Self - Audience Member2025
- My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert — Self2024
- Andrew Lloyd Webber at the BBC — Self2023
- The Phantom of the Opera: The Final Curtain2023
- Reopening: The Broadway Revival — Self2022
- Platinum Party at the Palace — Self2022
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (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.
Several of Lloyd Webber's songs have been widely recorded and widely successful outside 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 named him in 2008 the fifth-most powerful person in British culture, on which occasion lyricist Don Black said that "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."
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