OMG-! Happy Birthday to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948), properly styled and widely known as The Lord Lloyd-Webber, is a British composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. 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. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera, I Dont Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar, Dont Cry for Me, Argentina and You Must Love Me from Evita, Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Memory from Cats. His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. 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. Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools London, a prestigious performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:18:05 +0000
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