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Madison Goyette Period 7 5/31/2016 Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 in Kensington, London, England. His mother was a violinist and pianist and his father was a composer. He learned how to play the piano, violin and French horn and started writing his own music when he was 6 years old. Lloyd Webber would often put on productions with his younger brother, Jullian, a renowned cellist. His first work of six short pieces titled The Toy Theatre Suite was published when he was only 9. He liked to stage musical productions with his brother and aunt in a toy theatre that he set up at home and idolized Richard Rodgers who composed Oklahoma, The King and I and South Pacific. South Pacific was Lloyd Webber’s favorite of Rodgers’ works. …show more content…

Phantom of the Opera broke Cats’ record of 18 year Broadway run. It is considered to be one of his most accomplished musicals. He wrote the play based on an old French novel, Le Fantome de l’Opera, by Gaston Leroux about a beautiful soprano and her relationship to the Phantom, a disfigured musical genius. The shows opening was the highest grossing entertainment event of all time making 3.3 billion and with 80 million in attendance. Lloyd Webber was so nervous that he didn’t attend the opening show. In 1986, Rice and Lloyd Webber reunited to create Cricket for Queen Elizabeth’s 60th birthday. Then in 1989, he wrote Aspects of Love, musical based on story of David Garnett. In the show there was a shift of emphasis towards quieter more intimate theatrical experience, less elaborate, more akin to chamber work. Webber says that he feels that aspects will be one of his works that stands the test of time. Lloyd Webber has been referred to as “the most commercially successful composer in

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