Personal history

Lloyd Webber was natural in March 22, 1948 in South Kensington, England. He is the boy of composer William Lloyd Webber and piano teacher Jean Johnstone Lloyd Webber and brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, born inside 1951. He was the Queen's Scholar of Westminster School and went up to Magdalen College, Oxford but did not graduate.

His 1st married woman was Sarah Hugill. It married in July 24, 1972 and had ii babies, Imogen (born March 31, 1977) and Nicholas (natural July 2, 1979). Lloyd Webber & Hugill were divorced within 1983. He so married singer & dancer Sarah Brightman on March 22, 1984. He cast Brightman when a lead in The Phantom of the Opera, however a marriage did non go, & it divorced around 1990, though remaining friends. He married his present married woman, Madeleine Gurdon, on February 1, 1991, and experienced iii supplementary tykes: Alastair (born May 3, 1992), William (born August 24, 1993), and Isabella (born April 30, 1996).

He was knighted within 1992 and created a life peer in 1997 as Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire. (His baronage title is hyphenated, but his cognomen is does'nt.) He is ranked a 65th richest Briton in the Sunday Times Rich List 2005, with an calculated wealth of £700m. Politically, he is an active supporter & promoter of the Conservative Party

Professional career
Andrew Lloyd Webber number one gained profits at a age of xix, after he & Tim Rice were commissioned to write Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a senior high school around 1968. a musical theater was the hit; a slightly rewritten version was presently by the Edinburgh Festival. Lloyd Webber & Rice continued to collaborate & late produced Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and Evita (1976), both of which were freed when albums prior to existence bring around the stage. Them parted ways shortly fallowing, & Lloyd Webber's next big profits was 1981's Cats. Webber defied convention by writing a score to existent lyrics, like than a more way around. A lyrics were based on T.S. Eliot's 1939 ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which Lloyd Webber confessed was a childhood favourite. Cats was a hanker going Broadway musical, spanning a reign of additional than twenty years. Next, he wrote Starlight Express, which was a commercial message hit however panned per critics. Around 1986, he premiered his next musical, The Phantom of the Opera, inspired per 1911 Gaston Leroux novel. Although met by using mixed reviews within Up to date York, it became the hit & is however going. His numbers of more musical theatre works include Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, Song and Dance, and The Beautiful Game. When a bit of of his works will have tremendous commercial profits, his career has non been forswearing failures, especially in the United States. Song & Dance, Starlight Express, & Aspects of Love, 100% successes inside London, did non meet a equivalent reception inside Up to date York, & totally misplaced money shortly, critically panned diarrhea. Around 1995, Sunset Boulevard became one of a large fiscal disasters within Broadway history, & his subsequent works keep close at hand non eventually mass produced it to Future York. Numerous of his stage musical comedy use at times been taken onto a large screen. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) was directed by Norman Jewison, Evita (1996) was directed by Alan Parker, and last The Phantom of the Opera was directed by Joel Schumacher (and co-by Lloyd Webber). He was asked to write the piece for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics entitled Amigos Para Siempre.

He has as well composed for film. Around 1984, he took the different music genre, composing the requiem within memory of his father, who got died in 1982.

Lloyd Webber produced Bombay Dreams with Indian composer A. R. Rahman in 2002. His virtually all recent indicate is The Woman in White (2004).

Shows

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) (Tim Rice) Jesus Christ Superstar (1972) (Tim Rice) By Jeeves (1975) (Alan Ayckbourn) Evita (1976) (Tim Rice) Cats (1981) (based on T. S. Eliot in 1939) Tell Me On a Sunday (1979) / reworked as Song and Dance (1982) (Don Black) Starlight Express (1984) (Richard Stilgoe) The Phantom of the Opera (1986) (Richard Stilgoe/Charles Hart)(based on G. Leroux in 1911) Aspects of Love (1989) (Don Black/Charles Hart) Sunset Boulevard (1993) (Don Black/Christopher Hampton) Whistle Down the Wind (1997) (Jim Steinman) The Beautiful Game (2000) (Ben Elton) The Woman in White'' (2004) (David Zippel)

Withwithin both instance a lyrist is given in brackets.