Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a very successful English composer/songwriter of musical theatre. During his career he has produced 15 musicals, the scores to two films (Gumshoe and The Odessa File) and a Latin requiem mass. He has also accumulated a number of honours of which the following are most notable: seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an International Emmy, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was knighted in 1992 and entered the House of Lords in 1997.
His musical plays include:
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
- Evita (1976)
- Cats (1981)
- Song and Dance (1982)
- Starlight Express (1984)
- Phantom of the Opera (1985)
- Aspects of Love (1989)
- Sunset Blvd. (1993)
- By Jeeves (1996), a rewritten 1974 show
- Whistle Down the Wind (1998)
- The Beautiful Game (2000)
- The Woman in White (2004)
Lloyd Webber was married in the mid-1980s to the actress and singer Sarah Brightman whom he divorced in 1990 before marrying his current wife Madeleine Gurdon, a former three-day event horsewoman. His brother is the world-class cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
Lloyd Webber's lyricists have included Tim Rice, Don Black, Christopher Hampton, Richard Stilgoe and Ben Elton.
