Andrew Lloyd Webber


Andrew Lloyd Webber 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 and Tell Me on a Sunday combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, Requiem, a setting the Latin Requiem Mass, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard; 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 Tony awards, four Drama Desk awards, three Grammys, including the award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for Requiem in 1986, and five Laurence Olivier awards. 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 for Best Original Song for the Evita movie soundtrack.

In 1982 he became the first person to have three musicals running in New York and three in London, an achievement repeated throughout the eighties and nineties. 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' works including Shirley Valentine, Lend Me A Tenor and La Bête.

In 1988 he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music and 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 in the New Year’s Honours List.