Andrew Lloyd Webber

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER is the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Jesus Christ Superstar; the film scores of Evita, Gumshoe, and The Odessa File; Variations and Tell Me On A Sunday, combined as Song and Dance; Starlight Express; Requiem, a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass; The Phantom of the Opera; Aspects of Love; Sunset Boulevard; and By Jeeves, an acclaimed reworking of his earlier Jeeves. 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 awards are two Tonys for Best Score and Best Musical for Sunset Boulevard. Lloyd Webber was the first person to have three musicals running in New York and three in London simultaneously, 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. Through The Really Useful Group, he produces not only his own but other writers' works, including Shirley Valentine, Lend Me a Tenor, and La Bête. In 1988 he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Music, and in 1992 he was awarded a Knighthood for services to the arts. He was inducted into the American Songwriters' Hall of Fame and given the Praemium Imperiale Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, Whistle Down the Wind, opens in Washington in December 1996.