Andrew Lloyd Webber
Theatrical Composer
1948 –
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is a British 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. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "You Must Love Me" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "Memory" from Cats.
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 prestigious performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 1948
Kensington - Also known as
- Andrew Lloyd-Webber
- Andrew Webber
- Webber Andrew Lloyd
- Lloyd Webber
- AndrewLloydWebber
- A.L.Webber
- Andrew Loyd Webber
- Baron Lloyd-Webber
- Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Sarah Brightman
(1984/03/22 - 1990/01/03) - Madeleine Gurdon
(1991/02/09 - ) - Sarah Hugill
(1972/07/24 - 1983/11/14)
- Sarah Brightman
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Westminster School
- Royal College of Music
- University of Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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