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Andrew Lloyd Webber - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Andrew Lloyd Webber - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Composer, Producer, Writer, Actor.
Born March 22, 1948, South Kensington, London, England - English composer, producer, screenwriter and actor.
Lloyd Webber began writing his own music at a young age, writing the first published six-part suite at nine years old. He also did his "productions" with Julian and Aunt Viola in his toy theater, which he built at Viola's suggestion. He later became the owner of several theaters in the West End. His aunt Viola, an actress, took Andrew with him to watch her show and take a look at the theater world from behind the scenes.
His first success came at the age of 19 when he and Tim Rice wrote the opera Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a school production. Webber and Tim Rice continued to work together to write the operas Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and Evita (1976). Rice and Webber's creative paths soon parted ways.
In 1981, Webber wrote the musical Cats to the words of Nobel laureate TS Eliot.
March 22, 1984 - on his birthday and on the day of the premiere of his own new musical called Starlight Express.
In the following years, Webber created several more musicals, staged with great success on Broadway.
Based on Webber's musicals, several films were shot, with Madonna playing the main role in the adaptation of Evita.
In 1992 he was knighted by the queen, a few years later he was given the title of baron.
In 1977, he founded and until now fully controls the Really Useful Group, which owns six theaters in London's West End, as well as the rental rights for 22 musical performances, among which not only all the works of the composer, but also such musicals as Sound music ”,“ The Amazing Wizard of Oz ”and others. The Times' Sunday supplement estimates the composer's fortune to be in excess of ? 700 million; he is one of the hundred richest people in the UK.
