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  Andrew Lloyd Webber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is the son of composer William Lloyd Webber and piano teacher Jean Johnstone Lloyd Webber and brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, born in 1951.
Lloyd Webber and Hugill were divorced in 1983.
Lloyd Webber and Rice continued to collaborate and later produced Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and Evita (1976), both of which were released as albums before being brought to the stage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber   (953 words)

  
 Great Performances- Donny Osmond Transcript
Lloyd Webber and his librettists transposed the action of the 1961 film starring Hayley Mills and Oliver Reed from rural England to Bible-belt Louisiana.
It was here, in 1985, that Andrew Lloyd Webber premiered his only major departure from the Broadway stage, the "Requiem." Inspired both by the ongoing strife in Northern Ireland and by the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the "Requiem" was also a tribute to Andrew's father.
Following the example of Brahms and Fauré, Lloyd Webber omits violins from the orchestration, creating a striking contrast between the darkness of the orchestra and the bright, light voices of the tenor and the two sopranos.
www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/joseph/donny.html   (2205 words)

  
 at_web0202_webber.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lloyd Webber and his collaborators are responsible for the creation of the modern Broadway blockbuster.
Lloyd Webber was the son of a musician; his father was an organist and choirmaster in Great Britain.
Lloyd Webber approaches his musical subjects with a piety that some critics are uncomfortable (or possibly unfamiliar) with.
www.tcg.org /am_theatre/at_articles/AT_Volume_19/February02/at_web0202_webber.html   (1617 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Lloyd Webber may sell entertainment empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lloyd Webber's wholly owned Really Useful Group, founded in 1977, is a global entertainment group which stages musicals worldwide, recently released the feature film The Phantom of the Opera and has rights to the composer's songs and shows.
Lloyd Webber, 56, staged his first musical in London in 1968 and went on to become one of the genre's biggest names.
Lloyd Webber has appointed a boutique investment group, Ingenious Media, to give advice, but no investment banks are involved at this stage, banking sources said.
www.usatoday.com /money/2005-01-18-lloyd-webber_x.htm   (559 words)

  
 For Lloyd Webber, Pittsburgh will be a test
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber breezed into town Tuesday night to check up on one small franchise in the theater empire that recently saw him and his Really Useful Group enthroned as the No. 1 power in British theater, according to the industry paper, The Stage.
Lloyd Webber's current Pittsburgh interest is "By Jeeves," a musical farce that opens for previews tonight at the Pittsburgh Public Theater.
Lloyd Webber saw a run-through Tuesday and was working with the cast yesterday before watching a benefit performance last night.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20010201webber4.asp   (506 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Lloyd Webber buys London theatres
Lord Lloyd Webber, who made his name with a string of hit West End musicals, is taking control of 10 of London's best known theatres in an £85m deal.
Lord Lloyd Webber has been locked in a bidding battle with US entrepreneur Max Weitzenhoffer for control of the Stoll Moss empire, which was put up for sale last year by Australian businesswoman Janet Holmes a Court.
Lord Lloyd Webber said he believed the new business would be profitable as the additional theatres would bring economies of scale but he said he would not be putting all his own musicals into the new acquisitions.
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/596495.stm   (559 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lloyd Webber, Andrew, born in 1948, British composer of theatrical music, whose popular stage musicals include Jesus Christ Superstar (1971; in collaboration with British lyricist Timothy Rice), Cats (1981), and Phantom of the Opera (1986).
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in London and educated at the University of Oxford and at the Royal College of Music.
The musical was nominated for five Tony Awards, and Lloyd Webber, as composer, won the Drama Desk Award (1973).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566005/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber.html   (361 words)

  
 MUSICALS! een naslagwerk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S rule over the West End appears to be nearing the end after he announced that he is closing the London production of Cats.
Lord Lloyd Webber had had major hits with Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita but Cats was the show that brought together for the first time Sir Cameron, Lord Lloyd Webber and director Trevor Nunn, a triumvirate that went on to dominate musicals.
Lord Lloyd-Webber was unavailable for comment yesterday but in a statement he said: "Back in 1980 none of us who embarked on what most theatre people thought was a suicidal venture expected that Cats would become the longest-running musical in theatre history the world over.
home.planet.nl /~zegve004/pers/cats/cats006.html   (636 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lord Lloyd Webber has also written music for the movie version of "Phantom," starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum and scheduled to be released in December by Warner Brothers Entertainment.
Lord Lloyd Webber's company, the Really Useful Group, was formed in 1977 and went public in 1986; he took it private again in 1990.
Brown says Lord Lloyd Webber, who divides his time between London and New York, is as energetic as ever, but also more distracted than usual.
www.gerardbutler.net /k2news/Print.php?NewsID=162   (311 words)

  
 Art Critic London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The glories of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hoard of Pre-Raphaelite art, one of the greatest private collections in the country, are revealed in an unmissable exhibition at the Royal Academy, says Richard Dorment
Lloyd Webber, I discovered, knows a great deal about the art he collects, but his love for his pictures is the opposite of an academic tendency to categorise and pigeonhole.
It's a tribute to the power of Lloyd Webber's vision that the in-depth display of works by John William Waterhouse has finally convinced me that he is an artist of considerable originality and not a mere imitator.
www.theartnewspaper.com /artcritic/level1/reviewarchive/2003/03_09_17_webber.html   (1274 words)

  
 PUERTO RICO HERALD: Flaming June Becomes Hottest Buy On Market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
NO PICTURE has more of the art world in hot pursuit than Lord Leighton's Flaming June, left, the Victorian masterpiece that belonged for 40 years to Luis A. Ferre, the Governor of Puerto Rico.
Lord Lloyd-Webber has played the piano and sung songs with Mr Ferre's art dealer, Carlos Conde.
Lord Lloyd-Webber saw Flaming June in the shop window of a Polish frame-maker in Clapham in 1963 with a Pounds 50 price tag on it - and didn't buy it.
www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2004/vol8n01/FlamingJune.shtml   (603 words)

  
 E! Online News - Lloyd Webber Cleared of "Phantom" Filching   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Looks like Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber didn't need any help making the music of the night, after all.
Lloyd Webber countersued, saying he never heard of Repp or "Till You." The Broadway mogul said if the melodies sounded alike, it was because Repp must have lifted his from "Close Every Door," a tune from Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, written in 1969.
Lloyd Webber even asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the lawsuit, but the high court sent it back to federal court.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,4055,00.html   (330 words)

  
 Andrew Lloyd Webber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber showed interest and extraordinary talent in music at a very early age.
In 1956, Webber attended Westminster and composed music for school plays and by 1962, he had won a scholarship to reduce his tuition.
Webber and Rice turned to the Bible and found the story of Jacob and his son Joseph.
www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/W/AndrewLloydWebber.html   (179 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Broadway boss enters West End
Lord Lloyd-Webber is on the point of sealing a deal to sell four of his 12 West End theatres.
Lord Lloyd-Webber is expected to announce a sale this week to the Broadway producer Max Weitzenhoffer for around £11m.
Lord Lloyd-Webber has said he wishes to sell to a buyer who would respect the traditions of the properties.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1521373,00.html   (276 words)

  
 Letters to Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, your casting Michael Crawford to be your original Phantom was a surprise.
Webber, I have heard, from many reliable sources, that you are planning to make a film version of your most magnificent musical piece of work "The Phantom of the Opera".
Lloyd Webber, From the moment I heard the first chord of the overture, I was mesmerized by "Phantom".
www.phantommovie.com /alwletters/alwletters.htm   (17076 words)

  
 Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 and grew up in a musical home in South Kensington, England.
His father, William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, was professor of theory and composition at the Royal College of Music in England, where his mother, Jean, was a singer and violinist.
Besides his many stage compositions, Lloyd Webber has also written film scores, pop songs, a requiem, and is the owner of the Really Useful Company, which, along with producing shows, also owns many of the West End's theatres.
www.theatre-musical.com /lordalw.html   (208 words)

  
 Who's Who in Musicals: Lehar to LuPone
One of the greatest English music hall stars, Lloyd was touring the halls by age 15.
Lloyd tried American vaudeville on several occasions, but her charms did not register as they did back home.
Lloyd Webber and director Trevor Nunn turned T.S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats poems into Cats (1981), the longest running musical in Broadway and West End history.
www.musicals101.com /who6b.htm   (2538 words)

  
 LLOYD WEBBER'S FABULOUS ART COLLECTION TO GO ON DISPLAY FOR FIRST TIME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The stunning artworks of musical impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber are due to go on display for the first, and probably only time, this autumn.
As Lord Lloyd-Webber can't bear to be parted from them, the artworks are unlikely to ever be displayed together again.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has been collecting art since he was 15, is expected to be bereft without his "babies" during the exhibition's three-month run
www.hellomagazine.com /celebrities/2003/05/21/andrewlloydwebber   (364 words)

  
 London Theatre Guide | London Theatre News
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born with music coursing through his veins; both his parents were musicians working at the Royal College Of Music.
Webber married his first wife, Sara Hugill, with whom he had two children, in 1972 and continued his successful collaboration with Rice, writing Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.
The Lloyd Webber trophy cabinet boasts Oliviers, Tonys, Grammys, a Golden Globe and an Oscar and he has the honour of being the first person to have three different shows playing simultaneously in New York and London.
www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/profiles/display?contentId=73666   (379 words)

  
 Print Article: Lloyd Webber wants to buy Warner Chappell for $1.4bn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer and entrepreneur, is to approach Edgar Bronfman jnr with an offer to buy Warner Chappell, the publishing arm of Time Warner's music operations.
His spokesman confirmed on Wednesday that Lord Lloyd Webber was confident of raising the money to buy a business which is estimated by analysts to be worth about $US1 billion ($1.38 billion).
He said there would be "fantastic synergies" between Lord Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, which owns rights to musicals such as Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Phantom of the Opera, and the Warner Chappell business.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/11/27/1069825918719.html   (395 words)

  
 Launch of Church Trails   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lord Lloyd-Webber began the launch at the Early English church of West Walton, where he was welcomed by the Bishop of Huntingdon the Rt Revd John Flack and shown round by the Priest-in-Charge David Fysh using the
Lord Lloyd-Webber spoke about his love of church architecture which began when he was a child in London.
It was very evident that Lord Lloyd-Webber found the scale and magnificence of the churches he visited quite breathtaking.
www.ely.anglican.org /news/archive98/church-trails.html   (384 words)

  
 ABOUT ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in 1948 in London, England.
Lloyd Webber was first given a violin at the age of three, followed by piano lessons and then lessons on the French horn.
Lloyd Webber has been married three times; first to Sarah Jane Tudor Hugill (now Norris); Sarah Brightman; and Madeleine Gurdon.
www.geocities.com /Broadway/8448/alw.html   (504 words)

  
 cats in russian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His friends claim that he is always writing and it would be a fool who rules out the prospect of another Lloyd Webber musical in the future, though there appears to be none in the pipeline for the immediate future.
Lloyd Webber shows, many of them produced by Cameron Mackintosh, are currently running in 18 productions from Australia to South Korea and Denmark to Japan, and have so far won him seven Tonys, seven Grammys, five Oliviers and a clutch of other honours.
But Lord Lloyd-Webber, it seems, has already moved on to the next stage of his career, which may prove to be even more significant than the previous 21 years.
cats.musicals.ru /collection/london_colse1.html   (1151 words)

  
 From the Estate of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber - Is a Château-Margaux worth more because he once owned it? By George ...
As with anything else on the block, you paid less because the stuff was secondhand, might have been moved around, might not have been well stored, etc. This was particularly true of the wine world, since it comprised, for the most part, knowledgeable buyers who scoured price sheets from all over the world.
For more about Lloyd Webber, visit Sotheby's site, where the impresario bids adieu to his wines, announcing, "I hope they find good loving homes, particularly those naughty tannic Rhônes and my beloved Burgundies." With the assistance of Adobe Acrobat, you can download the entire auction catalog.
Lloyd Webber loyalists should check out the Really Useful Company home page, and also consult this site, which gathers sources of "online information about Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber." Oenophiles should check out Wine Spectator On-Line and Wines on the Internet, just a few of many possibilities.
www.slate.com /id/3515   (1023 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Lloyd Webber May Sell Entertainment Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Millionaire musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber may soon be singing all the way to the bank after getting an offer for his Really Useful Group, worth up to $934.2 million.
LONDON (Reuters) - Millionaire musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber may soon be singing all the way to the bank after getting an offer for his Really Useful Group, worth up to $934.2 million.
No details of the potential bidders for Lloyd Webber's businesses have emerged but sources said the buyer was likely to be from the entertainment industry.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/01/18/lloyd_webber_may_sell_entertainment_empire?mode=PF   (528 words)

  
 Andrew Lloyd Webber's plans to refurbish eight theatres in London's West End
British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning to refurbish his eight theatres in London's famed West End theatre district, after buying out investors.
Lord Lloyd-Webber, whose theatres include the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, wants to give something back to the venues where he has had so much success in the past.
Lord Lloyd-Webber will use money from a deal he made earlier this year (05), when he sold four of his smaller theatres to London producer Nica Burns and Broadway producer Max Weitzenhoffer for $20.7million (GBP11.5 million).
arts.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_1061882.php/Andrew_Lloyd_Webbers_plans_to_refurbish_eight_theatres_in_Londons_West_End   (366 words)

  
 Webber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of musical hits such as, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, and Cats.
Lloyd Webber studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and at the Royal College of Music.
In 1992, Lloyd Webber was knighted for services to the arts and in 1997; his stature was elevated and he became The Lord Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton.
www.sru.edu /depts/cisba/comm/Zeltner/arts/krismel/Webber.html   (283 words)

  
 Lloyd Webber News
Classical music should be a fundamental part of the school curriculum, says Julian Lloyd Webber A lively debate about what children should be taught in our schools is taking place today in the pages of the New...
The Lord of the Rings, the J R R Tolkien trilogy that was adapted into three successful, Oscar-winning films, is to become the most expensive West End musical ever made.
Lord Lloyd Webber retained his position as doyen of the British theatre yesterday after a year in which his Tell Me on a Sunday and Bombay Dreams continued to attract huge crowds.
www.topix.net /who/lloyd-webber   (510 words)

  
 Boulevard | UK Tour | Press Reviews | Plymouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lord Lloyd Webber said he was impressed with the Theatre Royal and was aware of Plymouth's strong reputation for production.
Lord Lloyd Webber left Plymouth after the show, opting to be driven back to his home in Sydmonton, Hampshire.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, which stars singer, actress and television personality Faith Brown as tragic Hollywood queen Norma Desmond, is guaranteed to thrill city audiences.
www.closeup.co.uk /blvd/tour/plymouth.htm   (997 words)

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