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. His...

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 bohem...

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 Chris...

Few musical forms have fallen into such low repute as the rock opera. Through the bombastic efforts of a handful of well-meaning composers, the whole enterprise has become almost synonymous with egotism in the minds of pop music consumers. Yet the form...

Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Introduced in 1970, it highlights the political and interpersonal struggles of Judas Iscariot and Jesus. The action largely follows the canonical gospels' accounts of the last...

Jesus Christ Superstar opened the 34th season of summer musicals at Lyric Theatre. And it was a super choice for an opening, with a super cast. Lyric's producing director, James Rocco, directed and choreographed the rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim...

The contemporary concept of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking musical Jesus Christ Superstar flows with tremendous enthusiasm, modern staging and spectacular scenery. Principals in the cast are well-seasoned, actors who, possess strong techniques and delivers spectacular involvement and impulsive contrasts on...

Last week, Observer intern Vince Levy was sitting by chance near Tom O’Horgan, the octogenarian stage director idolized for directing 70’s-era shows like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, when chummy 32-year-old actor Zach Braff approached. “I’m a tremendous fan of your work,” he told the...

"The Lion King" came home Wednesday, showered by celebrities, music and dance.The musical is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the South African run has been called a homecoming for the show whose score, choreography and story all have roots in the country."There would be no...

[In Superstar the] Christ of faith gives way to the Jesus of history. Rice and Webber have acknowledged modern scholarship's discovery that the New Testament picture of Jesus is colored throughout with propagandistic interpretation more intent on convincing the reader that Jesus is the divine God-man than in giving an historically accurate picture of the flesh-and-blood man of Galilee. (p. 218) Rice and Webber attempt to dramatize the life-style of the historical Jesus in the midst of the life-styles...

With Jesus Christ Superstar, the segment most often pincered for separate analysis is the younger generation—or sliced even thinner for microscopy, and for sensational copy, the counterculture and the Jesus Movements. Yet these ripples in American society are only peripherally related to the popularity of Superstar…. (p. 262) The very first fact that the critic must deal with—rationally, not in righteous indignation—is the tremendous popularity of Jesus Christ Superstar…. ...

[It's] almost impossible to suggest the imaginative impoverishment, the sheer stupefying banality, of … [the] version of the last days of Christ [in the movie Jesus Christ Superstar]…. In another respect, however, I underestimated the work; I had expected the alleged anti-Semitism of the film to be no more than the random fallout of its pandering to the anti-establishment sentiments of its audience, to be, in that sense, unintentional. But though the villainy of the Jews "works,&...