Andrew Lloyd-Webber Biography

was born in 1948. He is the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat; Jesus Christ Superstar; the film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File; Evita; Variations; Tell Me on a Sunday (combined as Song & Dance); Cats; Starlight Express; Requiem, a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass; The Phantom of the Opera; Aspects of Love; Sunset Boulevard; and By Jeeves, an acclaimed re-working of his earlier Jeeves; and his new musical, Whistle Down the Wind, which opened in Washington in December 1996. His awards include six Tonys; four Drama Desk Awards; three Grammys, including the award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for Requiem in 1986; and five Laurence Olivier Awards, the most recent awards being two Tonys for Best Score and Best Musical for Sunset Boulevard. He is the first person to have three musicals running in New York and three in London, a record he achieved three times, in 1982, 1988, and 1994. He is the first recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers’ Triple Play Award. In 1997 he and Sir Tim Rice were awarded the Golden Globe and an Oscar® for Best Original Song for the Evita movie soundtrack. In 1996, the London production of Cats became the longest-running musical in West End theatre history. Andrew Lloyd Webber, through The Really Useful Group, produces not only his own, but other writers’ work, including Shirley Valentine, Lend Me A Tenor, and La Bete. In 1988 he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Music. In 1992 he was awarded a Knighthood for Services to the Arts. He was inducted into the American Songwriters’ Hall of Fame and given The Praemium Imperiale Award for Music in 1995. In 1996 he received the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. In January 1997, he was elevated to the peerage as Lord Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton.