Lloyd Webber also premiered The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End in 1986, inspired by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel. [85], The Sunday Times Rich List 2006 ranked him the 87th-richest man in Britain with an estimated fortune of £700 million. Born on March 22, 1948, in London, England, Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and theatrical producer whose music revived the British and American music scene in the late 20th century. Since 2010, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has awarded over £19m to projects that focus on the enhancement of arts education and participation, improving access and increasing diversity across the arts, culture and heritage sector. It stayed in the UK singles chart for 14 weeks, peaking at number 2 and becoming Ball's signature tune.[39]. Andrew Lloyd Webber was born March 22, 1948 in Kensington, England. Lloyd Webber collaborated with Rice once again to write Evita (1978 in London/1979 in U.S.), a musical based on the life of Eva Perón. Thirdly, he married Madeleine Gurdon in Westminster on 9 February 1991. Biography. With the West End set to reopen in May, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella” musical, with a book by freshly minted Oscar nominee Emerald Fennell, is back in rehearsals. The song works in its own right as its many performers and audiences can witness. In September 2006, Lloyd Webber was named to be a recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors with Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, and Smokey Robinson. It was announced on 25 August 2006, on his personal website, that his next project would be The Master and Margarita; however, it was announced in late March 2007 that he had abandoned the project.[50]. Publikum tages på en musicalrejse fyldt med velkendte toner, farverige kostumer og formidabelt lysshow. Church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. 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 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,[40] The composer worked with two collaborators, as he had done on Aspects of Love; this time Christopher Hampton and Don Black shared equal credit for the book and lyrics. [59] The show also featured a search for three young actors to play and share the title character's role, but the show's main focus was on the search for Nancy. The lyrics were by Don Black and Charles Hart and the original production was directed by Trevor Nunn. He cast the winner, Danielle Hope, in the role of Dorothy, and a dog to play Toto in his forthcoming stage production of The Wizard of Oz. Andrew Lloyd Webber, baron Lloyd-Webber (ur.22 marca 1948 w Londynie) – brytyjski kompozytor, producent i działacz polityczny, w latach 1997-2017 członek Izby Lordów Wielkiej Brytanii, twórca muzyki do najbardziej kasowych musicali w historii, w tym spektakli Koty i Upiór w operze.Uhonorowany został Oscarem za najlepszą piosenkę do filmu Evita The Phantom in question was The Phantom of Manhattan, a planned sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "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, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and "Memory" from Cats. [54], On 1 July 2007, Lloyd Webber presented excerpts from his musicals as part of the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium, London, an event organised to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. The two riffs share very similar notes and the order of the notes played. His parents were deeply invested in music and were accomplished players themselves. The most popular composer of West End and Broadway musicals of his generation, including the iconic The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, and Cats. For more details on how Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation can help you fund a scholarship at no extra cost, click the button below: Support a Scholarship. The first amateur performance was by a children's theatre group in Cornwall called "Kidz R Us". Cats (1981) was to become the longest running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years before closing. [1] He lives at Sydmonton Court, Hampshire, and owns much of nearby Watership Down. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. Evita was a highly successful show that ran for ten years in the West End. On 8 October 2009, Lloyd Webber launched the musical Love Never Dies at a press conference held at Her Majesty's Theatre, where the original Phantom has been running since 1986. ロイド＝ウェバー男爵、アンドリュー・ロイド・ウェバー（英: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber 、1948年 3月22日 - ）は、ミュージカルで大きな成功を収めたイギリスの作曲家。 代表作に『ジーザス・クライスト・スーパースター』『エビータ』『キャッツ』『オペラ座の怪人』『サンセット … ", "Love Never Dies for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera", "Andrew Lloyd Webber to audition dogs for, "Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage School of Rock | Culture", "Sunset Boulevard | English National Opera", "Andrew Lloyd Webber Has 4 Musicals on Broadway – At The Same Time", "Review: That 'Sunset Boulevard' Close-Up, Finely Focused", "5 Things We Learned From Andrew Lloyd Webber's New Memoir", "Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend and Tim Rice join the ranks of EGOT winners", "Andrew Lloyd Webber Talks Working With Taylor Swift on New 'Cats' Song", "Andrew Lloyd Webber calls Cats film 'ridiculous, "Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella delays opening until October", "Killing Eve's Emerald Fennell and Andrew Lloyd Webber create new Cinderella", "The high-brow just don't know how to love him", "Who the hell does Roger Waters think he is? British composer and impresario of musical theatre, listed by duration and year of completion, Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works – Walsh, Michael (1989, revised and expanded, 1997). Andrew Lloyd Webber is arguably the most successful composer of our time. Its aim was to find a new Joseph for his revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Recent Activity. Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age, a suite of six pieces at the age of nine. [79], There was another accusation of plagiarism regarding Pink Floyd. On Broadway, Cats ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera. The main theme was used as the theme tune for ITV's long-running South Bank Show throughout its 32-year run. Note: Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber unless otherwise noted. Having achieved great popular success in musical theatre, Lloyd Webber was referred to by The New York Times in 2001 as "the most commercially successful composer in history". [101], Lloyd Webber was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1992 Birthday Honours for services to the arts. Jade Ewen won the right to represent Britain, winning with "It's My Time", by Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren. The planned follow-up to Jesus Christ Superstar was a musical comedy based on the Jeeves and Wooster novels by P. G. Wodehouse. He is best known for stage and film adaptations of his musicals Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Cats (1994), Evita (1996), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004). [86] The Sunday Times Rich List of 2019 saw him ranked the richest musician in the UK (overtaking Paul McCartney) with a fortune of £820 million. Lloyd Webber produced a staging of The Sound of Music, which débuted November 2006. Continued expansion eventually culminated in a 1972 stage musical and then a two-hour-long production being staged in the West End in 1973 on the back of the success of Jesus Christ Superstar.[22]. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music and pursue his interest in musical theatre. [44] David Mallet directed the film, and Gillian Lynne choreographed it. Tetris was the free game bundled with the Game Boy. They produced a demo tape of that work in 1966,[19] but the project failed to gain a backer.[20]. [92] He is properly styled as The Lord Lloyd-Webber; the title is hyphenated, although his surname is not. In 2013, Lloyd Webber reunited with Christopher Hampton and Don Black on Stephen Ward the Musical. [55][56] BBC Radio 2 broadcast a concert of music from the Lloyd Webber musicals on 24 August 2007. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Soundtrack: The Phantom of the Opera. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. [9] 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. They divorced on 3 January 1990. The production included the Boyzone number-one hit "No Matter What", which remained at the top of the UK charts for three weeks. [52] The contestants all sang "The Phantom of the Opera". ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S Cinderella Double CD Double CD Album US$19.99 Pre-Order ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S Cinderella Double Cassette Cassette US$19.49 Pre-Order Cats - Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack CD Album US$13.99 In Stock Original Cast Of Cats By Andrew Lloyd Webber: Vinyl Reissue Double Vinyl LP US$25.99 In Stock Sunset Boulevard opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 12 July 1993, and ran for 1,529 performances. Between April and June 2007, he appeared in BBC One's Any Dream Will Do!, which followed the same format as How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. In 2012, Lloyd Webber fronted a new ITV primetime show Superstar which gave the UK public the chance to decide who would play the starring role of Jesus in an arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. [57] 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 Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, which Lloyd Webber revived in 2006 at the London Palladium, and the 2002 musical Bombay Dreams. p. 82, Abrams: New York, Wolf, Matt. Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948, to William Lloyd Webber and Jean Hermione Johnstone, in Kensington, London. With music by Indian Music composer A.R. When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera on Broadway in 2017, Andrew became the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four Broadway shows running concurrently. The third Cinderella single release is sung by Carrie Hope Fletcher and is now available to stream on all platforms! They have three children, two sons and one daughter, all of whom were born in Westminster: Lloyd Webber and his third wife Madeleine founded the Watership Down Stud in 1992. Garnering mixed reviews from critics, due in part to the frequent absences of the show's star Maria Friedman due to breast cancer treatment, it closed only a brief three months later on 19 February 2006.[48]. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. This song was performed by Sarah Brightman and José Carreras. The show has also seen two tours of the US, as well as an Australian/Japanese production, a three-year UK touring production, which transferred to New Zealand later in 2009. [19] The request for the new piece came with a 100-guinea advance from Novello. Její vystoupení autor přímo na pódiu podpořil hrou na klavír. He and lyricist and composer Tim Rice wrote a number of new songs for the production to supplement the songs from the film.[63]. [10], His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. An agreement was settled out of court and details were not released to the public.[81]. 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. A revised production opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on 17 November 2005. The 2016 London revival was so well-received that the production transferred to the Palace Theatre on Broadway in February 2017, making Lloyd Webber the first musical-theatre composer since 1953 to have four musicals running simultaneously on Broadway – a feat that two of his heroes Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein had previously achieved. "[75], In January 2020, Lloyd Webber announced a new musical, Cinderella, which is planned to open in London's West End in 2021. Andrew Lloyd Webber eventually elevated himself as the king of memorable tunes and notable choruses, having 20 musical works and 45 awards to his name. Written By Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe. [2] He sat as a Conservative member of the House of Lords until his retirement from the House on 17 October 2017. In this respect, it is 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. [65] In 2014, it was announced that Lloyd Webber's next project would be a musical adaptation of the 2003 film School of Rock. The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen commented that: "Andrew Lloyd Webber has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy's never invented one note by himself. Webbers brilliante musik fortolkes live af et imponerende orkester. The best Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals can transport audiences to another place and time, as they follow along with the thrilling musical performances. Pink Floyd bassist and co-lead vocalist Roger Waters pointed this out and said it was "probably actionable", but stated he did not care to take it to court. [31] With over 13,400 London productions it is the second longest-running West End musical. His father was the director of the London College of Music, his mother … I’m very pleased to be working with David Zippel, a hugely witty lyricist, once again. Find out more. [34] Lloyd Webber received a Grammy Award in 1986 for Requiem in the category of best classical composition. Lloyd Webber wrote a Requiem Mass dedicated to his father, William, who had died in 1982. Even so, by its closing in 1997, "it had not recouped its reported $13 million investment. In 2001, The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". Charles Hart wrote the lyrics for Phantom with some additional material provided by Richard Stilgoe, with whom Lloyd Webber co-wrote the book of the musical. The role was won by Jodie Prenger despite Lloyd Webber's stated preference for one of the other contestants; the winners of the Oliver role were Harry Stott, Gwion Wyn-Jones and Laurence Jeffcoate. In early 2009 a series, called Eurovision: Your Country Needs You, was broadcast to find a performer for a song that he would compose for the competition. Release Date March 19, 1987. Aspects had a run of four years in London, but closed after less than a year on Broadway. Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of some of the world’s best-known musicals. Read Full Biography. By clicking Accept All, you agree to our use of marketing and social media cookies as described in our. [70][71], Lloyd Webber's memoir, Unmasked, was published in March 2018. Filmed in Melbourne, Australia, it received a limited cinema release in the US and Canada in 2012, to see if it would be viable to bring the show to Broadway. In 1986, Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, commissioned a short musical from Lloyd Webber and Rice for his mother's 60th birthday celebration. In 1992 he set up the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture and heritage in the UK. [100] He had his prostate completely removed as a preventative measure. [43], In 1998, Lloyd Webber released a film version of Cats, which was filmed at the Adelphi Theatre in London. [83], He is a lifelong supporter of London-based football club Leyton Orient F.C.,[84] just like his younger brother Julian. Together they had two children, a daughter and a son: He then married singer Sarah Brightman on 22 March 1984 in Hampshire. [51] He attended the ceremony on 3 December 2006; it aired on 26 December 2006. 1951) Wife: Sarah Hugill (m. 24-Jul-1972, div. [19][20][21] Doggett requested a "pop cantata" along the lines of Herbert Chappell's The Daniel Jazz (1963) and Michael Hurd's Jonah-Man Jazz (1966), both of which had been published by Novello and were based on the Old Testament. On 16 September 2004, his production of The Woman in White opened at the Palace Theatre in London. New report commissioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation examines diversity within UK drama schools. That's rather poor".[78]. [67][68], In April 2016, the English National Opera staged a revival of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum. [29] He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the West End's Adelphi Theatre. In 2006, Lloyd Webber planned to sell Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto by Pablo Picasso to benefit the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is the exciting new musical comedy starring Carrie Hope Fletcher, set to completely reinvent the world’s best-loved fairytale when it opens in London’s West End in spring 2021. [76] A collaboration with Killing Eve scriptwriter Emerald Fennell, Lloyd Webber wrote: "I have long wanted to write my own version of Cinderella but could never find a take on the classic story that really grabbed me. In 1996, they expanded their equestrian holdings by purchasing Kiltinan Castle Stud near Fethard in County Tipperary, Ireland. Also in April 2008, Lloyd Webber was featured on the U.S. talent show American Idol, acting as a mentor when the 6 finalists had to select one of his songs to perform for the judges that week. Rahman and lyrics by Don Black, it ran for two years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. [30][31] Elaine Paige collaborated again with Lloyd Webber, originating the role of Grizabella in Cats, and had a Top 10 UK hit with "Memory". The arena tour started in September 2012 and also starred comedian Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, former Spice Girl Melanie C as Mary Magdalene and BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as King Herod. [73] Lloyd Webber wrote the song "Beautiful Ghosts" with Taylor Swift for the film adaptation of Cats, produced by Greg Wells and released in December 2019. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. Sign up to our mailing list to be one of the first to know about upcoming events and exclusive announcements! It has since gone on a tour of the UK. Two further nominations for Best Original Song: "Learn to Be Lonely" from the 2004 motion picture The Phantom of the Opera and "Beautiful Ghosts" from Cats. [74] In an interview in August 2020, Lloyd Webber called the film "ridiculous", and that it deviated from the musical. [91], Lloyd Webber was made a Conservative life peer in 1997;[92] however by the end of 2015, he had voted only 33 times. Andrew Lloyd Webber. 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. He also said he views Jesus as "one of the great figures of history". [102] In the 1997 New Year Honours he was created a life peer as Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire. "Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber". "As 'Sunsets' fade, Rug's new era dawns", Variety, 7 April 1997 – 13 April 1997, p. 175, The Boys in the Photograph Marketing Information. [87], Lloyd Webber is an art collector, with a passion for Victorian painting. Andrew Lloyd Webber je autorem písně "My Time", kterou na Eurovision Song Contest 2009 v Moskvě coby soutěžní píseň Spojeného království představila zpěvačka Jade Ewen. Pie Jesu from Requiem achieved a high placing on the UK pop charts. "[5], He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to the Arts, six Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, fourteen 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. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of t… His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a reputed musician as well. [66] On 19 January 2015 auditions opened for children aged nine to fifteen in cooperation with the School of Rock music education program, which predated the film by several years. Read Full Biography. He came above mainstream musicians Elton John, U2, and Mick Jagger, with only Paul McCartney sneaking in above him. [88] In November 2006, he withdrew the painting from auction after a claim that the previous owner had been forced to sell it under duress in Nazi Germany. "The problem with the film was that Tom Hooper decided that he didn’t want anybody involved in it who was involved in the original show. [17][18], In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice. His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. The cast consisted of performers who had been in the show before, including Ken Page (the original Old Deuteronomy on Broadway), Elaine Paige (original Grizabella in London) and John Mills as Gus: the Theatre Cat. In the summer of 1967, Alan Doggett, a family friend of the Lloyd Webbers who had assisted on The Likes of Us and who was the music teacher at the Colet Court school in London, commissioned Lloyd Webber and Rice to write a piece for the school's choir. When all the clouds darken up the [6][7][8] He is one of sixteen people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. He made the controversial decision to choose an unknown to play leading lady Maria, who was found through the BBC's reality television show How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?, in which he was a judge. In January 2010, he declared he was cancer-free. As with Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita was released first as a concept album (1976) and featured Julie Covington singing the part of Eva Perón. [90] On 23 June 2010, the painting was sold at auction for £34.7 million to an anonymous telephone bidder. [41] 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. Andrew Lloyd Webber Biography by Marcy Donelson + Follow Artist. By Pablo Picasso to benefit the Andrew Lloyd Webber, Soundtrack: the Phantom in question was the director the..., was delayed due to the arts surname is not for most venues went on sale on 18 2012. [ 90 ] on 23 June 2010, the andrew lloyd webber York Times Lloyd! 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