See also: Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber (born the March 22nd 1948 with London) is a British Compositeur of musical comedies.

He is the son of the type-setter William Southcombe Lloyd Webber and the brother of the violoncellist Julian Lloyd Webber.

He connected successes in the Années 1970 and 1980, in collaboration with the lyric writer Tim Rice.

All its musical comedies remained several years in the West end of London and with Broadway.

His first wife was Sarah Hugill, they married in 1971 and divorced in 1977. His second wife was the soprano Sarah Brightman, they married in 1984 and divorced in 1990. He finally married Madeleine Gurdon, with which he is always married. He has several children of these three marriages.

Musical comedies

Composition of the music

• The Likes off Custom (1965) (Tim Rice)
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) (Tim Rice)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) (Tim Rice)
• Jeeves (1975), then a new worked over again version: By Jeeves (1996) (Alan Ayckbourn) (according to the novels of P.G. Wodehouse)
• Avoided (1976) (Tim Rice), vaguely inspired of the life of Eva Perón
• Cats (1981) (according to the poems of T.S. Eliot of 1939)
• Such Me one has Sunday (1979) (Don Black), which will become then Song and Dance (1982)
• Starlight Express (1984) (Richard Stilgoe)
• The Phantom off the Opera (1986) (Richard Stilgoe/Charles Hart) (according to the novel of Gaston Leroux of 1910)
• Aspects off Coils (1989) (Gift Black/Charles Hart) (according to the novel of David Garnett)
• Sunset Boulevard (1993) (Gift Black/Christopher Hampton) (according to film of Billy Wilder)
• Whistle Down the Wind (first version 1996, second version and official recording in 1998) (Jim Steinman) (according to the novel of Mary Hayley Beautiful)
• The Beautiful Range (2000) (Ben Elton)
• The Woman in White (2004) (David Zippel) (booklet of Charlotte Jones, according to the novel of Wilkie Hakes)

Producer

• Bombay Dreams (2002)

Musical comedies adapted out of films

• Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
• Avoided (1996)
• the Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Quotation

• Not every one in New York would pay to see Andrew Lloyd Webber, may his pants fall down ace He bows to the Queen and the Crown : first line of the song Chocolate Cake of the group Crowded House on the album Woodface.

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