Lord Lloyd-Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in 1948. He is the composer of Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, the
film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File, Evita, Variations
and Tell Me on a Sunday combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight
Express, Requiem, a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass, The Phantom
of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, By Jeeves, an
acclaimed re-working of his earlier Jeeves, and Whistle Down the Wind. His awards include six Tony awards, four drama desk awards, three
Grammys, including the award for Best Classical Contemporary
Composition for Requiem in 1986, and five Laurence Olivier awards,
his most recent award being two Tonys for Best Score and Best Musical
for Sunset Boulevard. He is the first person to have three musicals running in New York
and three in London, a record he achieved in 1982, 1988 and again
in 1994. He is the first recipient of the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Triple Play Award. In January 1996
the London production of Cats became the longest running musical in
West End theatre history. Andrew Lloyd Webber, through The Really Useful Group, produces not
only his own, but other writers’ works including Shirley Valentine,
Lend Me A Tenor and La Bete. In 1988 he was awarded a knighthood for services to the arts, and
was made a Lord in 1996. He was inducted into the American Songwriters’ Hall of Fame
and given the Praemium Imperiale award for Music in 1995.