In 1992 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and in 1993 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is one of fifteen people who have won an Oscar, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Throughout his career he has won a number of awards, including six Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards and the Grammy Legend Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Brit Award, and many more. Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, and has been referred to as the most commercially successful composer in history. He started his company The Really Useful Group in 1977 and it has become one of the largest theatre operators in London. Some of his musicals have been turned into film adaptations like The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Cats, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Some of his musicals include The Likes of Us, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Cricket, The Phantom of the Opera, The Beautiful Game, The Woman in White School of Rock and others. A few of his musical have run for over a decade on Broadway and in the West End. He has composed 13 musicals, two film scores, a song cycle, and a set of variations. The Phantom of the Opera is identified as the most personal of Lloyd Webber’s major successes and his obsessive, revisionary investment in Gaston Leroux’s novel is analysed with reference to both the 1986 musical and its badly misjudged sequel, Love Never Dies (2010).Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theater born in London, England on March 22, 1948. This critical survey of Lloyd Webber’s career discusses his self-understanding as a theatre composer his development of an individual style in the late 1960s his breakthrough success with Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and the significance of what the lyricist Tim Rice calls its ‘operatic form’ the continued artistic and commercial development of the composer’s career through Evita (1976), Cats (1981), Starlight Express (1984), and The Phantom of the Opera (1986) and his subsequent failure to produce further musicals of comparable popularity. 1948) and his Really Useful Group (founded 1977) have dominated British musical theatre since the 1970s, especially between 19. Some Yesterdays Always Remain: Black British and Anglo-Asian Musical TheatreĪndrew Lloyd Webber (b.Genre Counterpoints: Challenges to the Mainstream Musical.Attracting the Family Market: Shows with Cross-Generational Appeal.Mamma Mia! and the Aesthetics of the Twenty-First-Century Jukebox Musical.The Beggar’s Legacy: Playing with Music and Drama, 1920–2003.Andrew Lloyd Webber: Haunted by the Phantom.Cameron Mackintosh: Control, Collaboration, and the Creative Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of The Phantom of the Opera, Evita on stage and film, Sunset Boulevard and eight other major musicals, was elevated to the British.Lionel Bart: British Vernacular Musical Theatre.Joan Littlewood: Collaboration and Vision.Billy Elliot and Its Lineage: The Politics of Class and Sexual Identity in British Musicals since 1953.‘Humming the Sets’: Scenography and the Spectacular Musical from Cats to The Lord of the Rings.Les Misérables: From Epic Novel to Epic Musical.‘Everybody’s Free to Fail’: Subsidized British Revivals of the American Canon.Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again ('Phantom of the Opera') Lesley Garrett. Julian Lloyd Webber, David Cullen, Jon Hiseman, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, & Barry Wordsworth. Andrew Lloyd Webber, in full Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton, also called (199297) Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, (born March 22, 1948. The Pop-Music Industry and the British Musical The Phantom of the Opera: The Phantom of the Opera. Andrew Lloyd Webber (born March 22, 1948) is the composer of The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday later combined asSong & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, The Woman in White and Love Never Dies.Towards a British Concept Musical: The Shows of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.‘I’m Common and I Like ’Em’: Representations of Class in the Period Musical after Oliver!.After Anger: The British Musical of the Late 1950s.‘Ordinary People’ and British Musicals of the Post-War Decade.The American Invasion: The Impact of Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun.West End Royalty: Ivor Novello and English Operetta, 1917–1951.Musical Comedy in the 1920s and 1930s: Mister Cinders and Me and My Girl as Class-Conscious Carnival.English West End Revue: The First World War and After.Comic Opera: English Society in Gilbert and Sullivan.Between Opera and Musical: Theatre Music in Early Nineteenth-Century London.Ballad Opera: Commercial Song in Enlightenment Garb.The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical.
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