The British musician Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948) was the composer of such musical theater hits as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, and Aspects of Love....

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948, the son of William Southcombe Lloyd Webber and Jean Hermione Johnstone. His younger brother, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, was born in 1951. The family lived in South Kensington, London. "My family was...

British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is best known for creating the music to some of the world's most popular contemporary theatrical productions. His collaborations with lyricist Tim Rice include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has written some of the most commercially successful musicals of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Among his most popular shows are Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967), Jesus Christ Superstar (1971),...

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals...

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER By John Snelson Yale University Press Hardback 267pp ISBN: 0-300-10459-6 £19:95 This is a very welcome book which, all things considered, could hardly have been better done. John Snelson is Editor of publications at the Royal Opera House in Covent...

Not since the 1930s, when John Christie decided to have an annual Mozart festival inside his country house on the Sussex downs at Glyndebourne, has there been such a curious artistic venture. At a rustic beauty spot in the middle of nowhere, at...

"American Idol" creator Simon Fuller was determined to stretch the boundaries of the hit TV show this season, staging an ambitious charity special and a songwriting contest.So far, he's more than pleased with the results.The online competition to create the new idol's first single got...

Today is Thursday, March 22, the 81st day of 2007. There are 284 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 22, 1765, Britain enacted the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was repealed the following year.)On...

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber have chosen Eva Perón … as heroine of [Evita,] their followup to Jesus Christ Superstar, and it must be confessed that there is a certain logic to the choice. The one memorable song from Jesus Christ Superstar, "I Don't Know How to Love Him," belonged not to the hero but to the blameless whore Mary Magdalene. Here the blameless whore is the centerpiece and once again has the song, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." Outside ...