Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Lord Lloyd-Webber | |
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Born | Andrew Lloyd Webber 22 March 1948 Kensington, London, England |
Alma mater | Royal College of Music |
Occupation | Composer |
Years active | 1965–present |
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Notable work |
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Spouses | Sarah Hugill
(m. 1971; div. 1983) |
Children | 5, including Imogen and Nick |
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Relatives | Julian Lloyd Webber (brother) |
Awards | Full list |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 25 February 1997 – 17 October 2017 Life peerage | |
Website | andrewlloydwebber |
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber
Several of Lloyd Webber's songs have been widely recorded and widely 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. In 2001, The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history".[1] The Daily Telegraph named him in 2008 the fifth-most powerful person in British culture, on which occasion lyricist Don Black said that "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."[2]
Lloyd Webber has received numerous awards, including a
The
Early life
Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948 in Kensington, London,[9] the elder son of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist.[10] His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a world-renowned solo cellist.[11] On the BBC's genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, he learned that his mother's great-great-uncle was the soldier Sir Peregrine Maitland who in 1815 served as a major general at the Battle of Waterloo.[12]
Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age: a suite of six pieces at the age of nine.[14] He also put on "productions" with Julian and his aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at Viola's suggestion). In his memoir, he writes: "mum was determined that I should be a prodigy in something or other."[15] His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. His father enrolled him as a part-time student at the Eric Gilder School of Music in 1963.[16] At this time he was working on a Genghis Khan musical called Westonia!.[15]
From 1960 to 1965, Lloyd Webber was a
Career
Early years
"The names of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice are, of course, forever bound together in musical theatre history, like those of Gilbert and Sullivan."
—Theatre critic Mark Shenton on the partnership of Lloyd Webber and Rice.[20]
In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice.[21][22] Their first collaboration was The Likes of Us, an Oliver!-inspired musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo.[23] They produced a demo tape of that work in 1966,[21] but the project failed to gain a backer.[22]
Although composed in 1965, The Likes of Us was not publicly performed until 2005, when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's
In the summer of 1967, Alan Doggett, a family friend of the Lloyd Webbers who had assisted on The Likes of Us and who was the music teacher at the
In 1969, Rice and Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the Eurovision Song Contest called "Try It and See", which was not selected. With rewritten lyrics, it became "King Herod's Song" in their third musical, Jesus Christ Superstar (1970). Debuting on Broadway in 1971, by 1980 the musical had grossed more than $237 million worldwide.[26] Running for over eight years in London between 1972 and 1980, it held the record for longest-running West End musical before it was overtaken by Cats in 1989.[27] The planned follow-up to Jesus Christ Superstar was a musical comedy based on the Jeeves and Wooster novels by P. G. Wodehouse. Tim Rice was uncertain about this venture, partly because of his concern that he might not be able to do justice to the novels that he and Lloyd Webber so admired.[28] Rice backed out of the project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical Jeeves with Alan Ayckbourn, who provided the book and lyrics.[29] Jeeves failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a run of only 38 performances in the West End in 1975.[30] Many years later, Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn revisited this project, producing a thoroughly reworked and more successful version entitled By Jeeves (1996).[31]
Mid-1970s
Lloyd Webber collaborated with Rice once again to write Evita (1978), a musical based on the life of Eva Perón. As with Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita was released first as a concept album (1976), featuring Julie Covington singing the part of Eva Perón. The song "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" became a hit single and the musical was staged at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre in a production directed by Harold Prince and starring Elaine Paige in the title role.[32] This original production was enormously successful, eventually running for nearly eight years in the West End.[33]
Evita transferred to Broadway in 1979, in a production starring Patti LuPone as Eva and Mandy Patinkin as Che; it won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, helped launch the careers of both LuPone and Patinkin, and ran for almost four years. Rice and Lloyd Webber parted ways soon after Evita, although they have sporadically worked together since then.[34]
In 1978, Lloyd Webber embarked on a project with his cellist brother Julian, the
1980s
Lloyd Webber was the subject of This Is Your Life in November 1980 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the foyer of Thames Television's Euston Road Studios in London.[38] He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the West End's Adelphi Theatre.[39]
Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead to the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Cats (1981) was to become the longest-running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances before closing.[40] On Broadway, Cats ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera.[41][42] Elaine Paige collaborated again with Lloyd Webber, originating the role of Grizabella in Cats, and had a Top 10 UK hit with "Memory".[43]
Lloyd Webber wrote a
In 1986, Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, commissioned a short musical from Lloyd Webber and Rice for his mother's 60th birthday celebration.[48] Cricket (1986), also called Cricket (Hearts and Wickets), reunited Lloyd Webber with Rice to create this short musical for the Queen's birthday, first performed at Windsor Castle.[49][50] Several of the tunes were later used for Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard.
Lloyd Webber premiered The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End in 1986, inspired by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel. He wrote the part of Christine for his then wife, Sarah Brightman, who played the role in the original London and Broadway productions alongside Michael Crawford as the Phantom. The production was directed by Harold Prince, who had also earlier directed Evita. Charles Hart wrote the lyrics for Phantom with some additional material provided by Richard Stilgoe, with whom Lloyd Webber co-wrote the book of the musical. It became a hit and is still running in the West End; in January 2006 it overtook Lloyd Webber's Cats as the longest-running show on Broadway. On 11 February 2012, Phantom of the Opera played its 10,000th show on Broadway.[42] With over 14,200 London productions it is the second longest-running West End musical.[51] The Broadway production closed on 16 April 2023, having played 13,981 performances, the most in Broadway history.[52]
Aspects of Love followed in 1989, a musical based on the story by David Garnett. The lyrics were by Don Black and Charles Hart and the original production was directed by Trevor Nunn. Aspects had a run of four years in London, but closed after less than a year on Broadway. It has since gone on a tour of the UK. It is famous for the song "Love Changes Everything", which was performed by Michael Ball in both the West End and Broadway casts. It stayed in the UK Singles Chart for 14 weeks, peaking at number 2 and becoming Ball's signature tune.[53]
1990s
Lloyd Webber was asked to write a song for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and he composed "Amigos Para Siempre — Friends for Life" with Don Black providing the lyrics. This song was performed by Sarah Brightman and José Carreras.[54]
Lloyd Webber had toyed with the idea of writing a musical based on
In 1994, Sunset Boulevard became a successful Broadway show, opening with the largest advance in Broadway history, and winning seven Tony Awards that year. Even so, by its closing in 1997, "it had not recouped its reported $13 million investment."[57] From 1995 to 2000, Lloyd Webber wrote the Matters of Taste column in The Daily Telegraph where he reviewed restaurants and hotels, and these were illustrated by Lucinda Rogers.[58]
In 1998, Lloyd Webber released a film version of Cats, which was filmed at the Adelphi Theatre in London.[59] David Mallet directed the film, and Gillian Lynne choreographed it. The cast consisted of performers who had been in the show before, including Ken Page (the original Old Deuteronomy on Broadway), Elaine Paige (original Grizabella in London) and John Mills as Gus: the Theatre Cat.[60]
In 1998,
2000s
Having achieved great popular success in musical theatre, Lloyd Webber was referred to by
Lloyd Webber produced a staging of The Sound of Music, which débuted in November 2006. He made the controversial decision to choose an unknown to play leading lady Maria, who was found through the BBC's reality television show How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?, in which he was a judge.[64] The winner of the show was Connie Fisher. A 2006 project, The Master and Margarita, was abandoned in 2007.[65]
In September 2006, Lloyd Webber was named a recipient of the
Between April and June 2007, he appeared in BBC One's Any Dream Will Do!, which followed the same format as How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. Its aim was to find a new Joseph for his revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Lee Mead won the contest. Viewers' telephone voting during the series raised more than £500,000 for the BBC's annual Children in Need charity appeal, according to host Graham Norton on air during the final.[68]
In 2007, Lloyd Webber's cat, Otto, leaped onto his
In April 2008, Lloyd Webber reprised his role as judge, this time in the BBC musical talent show
Lloyd Webber accepted the challenge of managing the
On 8 October 2009, Lloyd Webber launched the musical Love Never Dies at a press conference held at Her Majesty's Theatre, where the original Phantom has been running since 1986.[77] Also present were Sierra Boggess, who had been cast as Christine Daaé, and Ramin Karimloo, who portrayed Phantom, a role he had recently played in the West End.[77]
2010s
Following the opening of Love Never Dies, Lloyd Webber again began a search for a new musical theatre performer in the BBC One series Over the Rainbow. He cast the winner, Danielle Hope, in the role of Dorothy Gale, and a dog to play Toto in his forthcoming stage production of The Wizard of Oz. He and lyricist and composer Tim Rice wrote a number of new songs for the production to supplement the songs from the film.[78]
On 1 March 2011,
In 2013, Lloyd Webber reunited with
In April 2016, the
Lloyd Webber's memoir, Unmasked, was published in 2018.
2020s
Lloyd Webber's new version of Cinderella opened at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in the West End in 2021. The opening, which was originally set to take place in August 2020, was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[92] Based on a book by Emerald Fennell, Lloyd Webber wrote: "Emerald Fennell has written something truly exciting and original, and the moment I read her outline I knew I'd found my latest collaborator."[93] He garnered press attention in July 2021 for saying that he was "prepared to be arrested" to open Cinderella to full houses in spite of rising Covid cases and in defiance of Government advice.[94] A 2021 feature in Variety suggested:
Lloyd Webber, at 73, appears to have been reanimated creatively in recent years. Both School of Rock and Cinderella earned him some of the best reviews of his career and had a lightness and wit that had been missing from his work. They came after a grueling period in the wilderness, one characterized by failures, disappointments and missteps. ... It seemed, for a time, as though the Lloyd Webber formula, which relied on swooning, rapturous melodies and razzle-dazzle, had grown stale.[91]
In 2022, Lloyd Webber appeared alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda in the BBC Platinum Jubilee Concert for Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. They initially appeared singing alternative words to "The King's Song" from Jesus Christ Superstar and "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "The Phantom of the Opera" from The Phantom of the Opera were parts of the musical theatre section.[95][96]
In 2023, Lloyd Webber was one of twelve composers asked to write a new piece for the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[97] His anthem, "Make a Joyful Noise", was performed during the enthronement of Queen Camilla.[98]
Accusations of plagiarism
Among the accusations of plagiarism that Lloyd Webber has received, the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen stated that he: "has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy's never invented one note by himself. That's rather poor".[99] Lloyd Webber's biographer, John Snelson, acknowledged a similarity between the andante movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor and the Jesus Christ Superstar song "I Don't Know How to Love Him", but wrote that Lloyd Webber:
...brings a new dramatic tension to Mendelssohn's original melody through the confused emotions of Mary Magdalene. The opening theme may be Mendelssohn, but the rhythmic and harmonic treatment along with new lines of highly effective melodic development are Lloyd Webber's. The song works in its own right as its many performers and audiences can witness.[99]
An accusation of plagiarism regarded the 1971
Noting similarities between Lloyd Webber's "
Personal life
Lloyd Webber has been married three times. He married first Sarah Hugill on 24 July 1971; they divorced on 14 November 1983. Together they had two children, a daughter and a son:
- Imogen Lloyd Webber (born 31 March 1977)
- Nicholas Lloyd Webber (2 July 1979 – 25 March 2023)
He then married English soprano Sarah Brightman on 22 March 1984 in Hampshire. He cast Brightman in the lead role in his musical The Phantom of the Opera, among other notable roles. They divorced on 3 January 1990, but have remained close friends and have also continued to work together.[103]
Thirdly, he married
- Alastair Adam Lloyd Webber (born 3 May 1992)
- William Richard Lloyd Webber (born 24 August 1993)
- Isabella Aurora Lloyd Webber (born 30 April 1996).
Lloyd Webber and his third wife Madeleine founded the Watership Down Stud in 1992. In 1996, they expanded their equestrian holdings by purchasing Kiltinan Castle Stud near Fethard in County Tipperary, Ireland.[104] They were invited to ride in the King's procession at Royal Ascot 2023.[105]
In a 1971 interview with
He is a lifelong supporter of London-based football club Leyton Orient F.C.,[107] just like his younger brother Julian.[108]
In late 2009, Lloyd Webber had surgery for early-stage prostate cancer,[109] but had to be readmitted to hospital with post-operative infection in November. In January 2010, he declared he was cancer-free.[110] He had his prostate completely removed as a preventative measure.[111]
In 2023, Lloyd Webber's son Nicholas died at the age of 43 after an 18 month battle with gastric cancer.[112]
Lloyd Webber has a house in Eaton Square in Belgravia, London; in 2024 he revealed he had had his house blessed by a priest in an attempt to displace a "poltergeist" that was haunting the property.[113]
Wealth
The
Lloyd Webber is an
Charity
Lloyd Webber is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the
In 2013, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Programme was launched to aid the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST), which aims to give every child at participating schools across the UK the opportunity to study a musical instrument as part of the curriculum.[124] He told LBC: "What music does in these schools, isn't actually necessarily about trying to make the children musicians. But what it does, is it really helps them as people."[124]
In 2014, Lloyd Webber designed a Cats-themed
Politics
Lloyd Webber was made a life peer in 1997, sitting for the Conservative Party.[126] By the end of 2015, he had voted only 33 times in the House of Lords.[127] Politically, Lloyd Webber has supported the Conservatives, allowing his song "Take That Look Off Your Face" to be used on a party promotional film seen by an estimated one million people before the 2005 general election.[128] In August 2014, Lloyd Webber was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[129]
In October 2015, Lloyd Webber was involved in a contentious House of Lords vote over proposed cuts to tax credits, voting with the Government in favour of the plan. Lloyd Webber was denounced by his critics because he flew in from abroad on his personal plane to vote, when his voting record was scant.[130][131] In October 2017, Lloyd Webber retired from the House of Lords, stating that his busy schedule was incompatible with the demands of Parliament considering the upcoming crucial Brexit legislation.[132]
In July 2021, he told Good Morning Britain that he would never vote for the Conservatives again, due to their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and poor treatment of the arts sector during that time.[133]
Awards and honours
Lloyd Webber was appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen's 1992 Birthday Honours for services to the arts.[134] He was given a life peerage in the 1997 New Year Honours and was created Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Sydmonton, in the County of Hampshire, on 18 February 1997.[126] He is properly styled "The Lord Lloyd-Webber"; the title is hyphenated, although his surname is not.[9] He sat as a Conservative member of the House of Lords until his retirement from the House on 17 October 2017.[135]
On
Theatre credits
Note: Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber unless otherwise noted.
- The Likes of Us (1965)
- Lyrics by Tim Rice
- Book by Leslie Thomas
- Not produced until 2005
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968)
- Lyrics by Tim Rice
- Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
- Lyrics by Tim Rice
- Jeeves (1975)
- Book and lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn
- Revised in 1996 as By Jeeves
- Evita (1976)
- Lyrics by Tim Rice
- Tell Me on a Sunday (1979)
- Lyrics by Don Black
- Cats (1981)
- Lyrics based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
- Additional lyrics after Eliot by Richard Stilgoe and Trevor Nunn
- Song and Dance (1982)
- Lyrics by Don Black (revised by Richard Maltby Jr. for Broadway)
- Combination of Variations (1978) and Tell Me on a Sunday (1979)
- Starlight Express (1984)
- Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
- Later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek
- Inspired by The Railway Series books by The Rev. W. Awdry.
- Cricket (1986)
- Lyrics by Tim Rice
- First performed for Queen Elizabeth II's 60th birthday
- The Phantom of the Opera (1986)
- Lyrics by Charles Hart
- Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
- Book by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Based on the novel by Gaston Leroux
- Aspects of Love (1989)
- Lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart
- Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Based on the David Garnett novel
- Sunset Boulevard (1993)
- Book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black
- Based on the film(1950)
- Whistle Down the Wind (1996)
- Lyrics by Jim Steinman
- Book by Patricia Knop, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gale Edwards
- The Beautiful Game (2000)
- Book and lyrics by Ben Elton
- Updated as The Boys in the Photograph(2009)
- The Woman in White (2004)
- Lyrics by David Zippel
- Book by Charlotte Jones
- Based on the Wilkie Collins novel
- Based on elements of the short story The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens[137]
- Love Never Dies (2010)
- Book & Lyrics by Glenn Slater
- Book by Ben Elton & Frederick Forsyth
- Additional lyrics by Charles Hart
- The Wizard of Oz (2011)
- Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Jeremy Sams
- Music by Harold Arlen
- Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
- Additional music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Additional lyrics by Tim Rice
- Based on the 1939 motion picture The Wizard of Oz
- Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Stephen Ward (2013)
- Book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black
- School of Rock (2015)
- Lyrics by Glenn Slater
- Book by Julian Fellowes
- Based on the 2003 film
- Cinderella (2021)
- Lyrics by David Zippel
- Book by Emerald Fennell
- Based on the classic story
Film adaptations
There have been a number of
A special performance of
Other works
- Gumshoe (1971) - film score
- The Odessa File (1974) – Film score.
- Variations (1978) – A set of musical variations on Niccolò Paganini's Caprice in A minor that Lloyd Webber composed for his brother, cellist Julian. This album featured fifteen rock musicians including guitarist Gary Moore and pianist Rod Argent and reached number 2 in the UK album chart upon its release. It was later combined with Tell Me on a Sunday to form one show, Song and Dance. Lloyd Webber also used variation five as the basis for Unexpected Song in Song and Dance. The main theme is used as the theme music to The South Bank Show.
- Requiem(1985) – A classical choral work composed in honour of his father, William.
- Watership Down (1999) – Lloyd Webber and Mike Batt, main soundtrack composer of the animated series adaptation of Richard Adams' novel of the same name, composed the song "Fields of Sun". The actual song was never used on the show, nor was it available on the CD soundtrack that was released at the time. He was however still credited for the unused song in the show's opening titles.
Discography
Musicals and show recordings
- The Likes of Us (1965)
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
- Jeeves (1975)
- Evita (1976)
- Tell Me on a Sunday (1979)
- Cats (1981)
- Song and Dance (1982)
- Starlight Express (1984)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1986)
- Aspects of Love (1989)
- Sunset Boulevard (1993)
- Whistle Down the Wind (1998)
- The Beautiful Game (2000)
- The Woman in White (2004)
- Love Never Dies (2010)
- The Wizard of Oz (2011)
- Stephen Ward(2013)
- School of Rock (2015)
- Cinderella (2021)
- Bad Cinderella (2023)
Other albums
- Variations (1978)
- Variations with London Philharmonic Orchestra (1986)
- Symphonic Suites (2021)
See also
- View of Geelong by Eugene von Guerard, 1856 painting once owned by Lloyd Webber
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Further reading
- Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection – Royal Academy of Arts, London 2003 ISBN 1-903973-39-2
- Cats on a Chandelier – Coveney, M (1999), Hutchinson, London
- Oh What a Circus – Rice, Tim (1999), Hodder & Stoughton, London
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – Snelson, John (2004), Yale University Press, New Haven CT. ISBN 0-300-10459-6
- Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works – Walsh, Michael (1989, revised and expanded, 1997), Abrams: New York
External links
- Official website
- Biography at the Really Useful Group
- Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Internet Broadway Database
- Andrew Lloyd Webber at IMDb
- Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber in International Songwriters Association's "Songwriter Magazine"