SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Biography - Theater, Opera and Movie personalities

 
 

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SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

Name: Andrew Lloyd Webber                                                         
Born: 22 March 1948 Kensington, London, England.                                   
                                                                                   
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a highly         
successful British composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of     
cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.                                                       
                                                                                   
Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that 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, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an   
International Emmy, six Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, and the Kennedy Center     
Honors in 2006. Several of his songs, notably "I Don't Know How to Love Him"       
from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from Evita, "Memory"   
from Cats, and "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera have been   
widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. 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 Lloyd Webber's musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group.