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Private Passions: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

25/12/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Michael Berkeley's guest is theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Michael Berkeley's guest is theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, creator of shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Starlight Express, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.

Today Michael Berkeley welcomes Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most successful composer working in musical theatre of our time. His stream of multi-award-winning shows includes 'Jesus Christ Superstar', 'Evita', 'Starlight Express', 'Cats', 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Aspects of Love', 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Love Never Dies', for which he has won many international prizes including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, 7 Tony awards, 3 Grammy awards, and 14 Ivor Novello awards.
'Cats', 'Starlight Express' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' (which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year) are the three longest-running musical in British theatre history.

The son of William Lloyd Webber, Director of the London College of Music, and a piano teacher, Andrew showed an early interest in music, but always wanted to write and play his own pieces. He had already written eight musicals before he met up with Tim Rice at the age of 17, creating one of the most remarkable artistic partnerships in music theatre history. 

He is also a producer of musicals and films, and pioneered TV casting for musical theatre with the Emmy-award-winning BBC series 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?', won by Connie Fisher, who then went on to star in Lloyd Webber's smash hit production of The Sound Of Music'. He repeated this successful format with 'Any Dream Will Do' for his own 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat', 'I'd Do Anything' for 'Oliver!' and 'Over the Rainbow' for his new production of 'The Wizard of Oz' which opened at the London Palladium last March. He currently owns seven London theatres.

His best-known composition outside musical theatre is the Requiem.

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