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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Musical Theatre Performer
Born March 22, 1948 in Kensington, United Kingdom (78 years old)
Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English 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 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.
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Career Trajectory
From precocious child composer to the architect of modern musical theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber transformed a genre through works of operatic ambition and commercial savvy. Beginning with Joseph in 1968 and ascending through the conceptual boldness of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, he achieved his apotheosis with The Phantom of the Opera, a work that became a cultural phenomenon and the longest-running musical in Broadway history. His subsequent decades were marked not merely by continued compositional success but by the construction of a global entertainment empire through The Really Useful Group, establishing him as the most commercially dominant figure in musical theatre and a recipient of the rare EGOT distinction.
Career Highlight
EGOT status achieved in 2018 with Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert; also knighted in 1992 and created a life peer in 1997
Training & Education
Westminster School (Queen's Scholar, 1960–1965); Magdalen College, Oxford (history, one term, 1965); Royal College of Music, London (honorary doctorate, 2014); Eric Gilder School of Music (part-time, 1963)
Engagements
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