Musical Theatre Performer
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most commercially successful composer in musical theatre history, whose operatic sensibilities and gift for melody transformed the genre and created a global entertainment empire.
Defining moments and milestones
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.
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
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)
Recordings featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber in the Society index
Additional recordings will appear here as the catalog expands.