Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. He is one of 18 people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage for services to the arts, six Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, 14 Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and an Emmy Award. The Daily Telegraph ranked him the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" in 2008, lyricist Don Black writing "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical." In 2001, The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as " Memory" from Cats, " The Music of the Night" and " All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera, " I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, " Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita, and " Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. “It’s the only way I could get my music out and present the score.”įifty years ago this month, Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, unable to get any theaters to put on a production of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” switched the regular order and released a cast album first.Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. “We couldn’t find any other way to getting it out,” said the composer Thursday from the bar in the London Palladium as he waited for a listening party for the upcoming clutch of songs. Waiting has been frustrating and he and the cast recorded the cast album in their homes during lockdown. Lloyd Webber and his cast were ready to start rehearsals in the spring in London when they - and many theaters across the globe - were stopped by the virus pandemic. “Every fairytale for sure can use one/Sorry I’m so rude/Sorry you’re so lame/I won’t play your game.” The single is a portrait of a fearsome woman standing apart from society’s rules: “They call me a wretch/A witch/Well, choose one,” the heroine sings. The rollicking song is called“Bad Cinderella”and it’s sung by Carrie Hope Fletcher, who will play the title character in what is being billed as a “complete reinvention of the classic fairytale.” NEW YORK (AP) - Andrew Lloyd Webber is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of his “Jesus Christ Superstar” album with the first single from his latest musical, “Cinderella.” Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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