Andrew Lloyd Webber
Music

Andrew Lloyd Webber is composer of: (theatre) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jeeves later reworked as By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday later combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game; (film) Gumshoe, The Odessa File, additional music Evita; and Requiem a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass. His productions include Daisy Pulls It Off and La Bête, both Olivier Award winners. He is reviving Daisy in London this year and also producing A R Rahman’s Bombay Dreams, which is scheduled to open at the Apollo Victoria on 19 June. He now solely owns the Really Useful Group whose management, in addition to producing his own work, is active independently from him in developing and producing the works of other writers. The Really Useful Group is co-owner of Really Useful Theatres which is London’s largest proprietor of West End theatres, including the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the London Palladium and The Palace. Awards include seven Tonys, three Grammys, five Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, an International Emmy, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers and the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical 2000. He was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.