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Andrew Lloyd Webber is a legendary EGOT-winning composer who has created one musical theatre mega hit after another. And for your convenience, here’s our list of all of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals to date, sorted chronologically.
Jan 12, 2021 · Here, we’ve rounded up a complete list of every full-length Andrew Lloyd Webber musical — all 21. The Likes of Us. The first musical from Lloyd Webber and Rice’s collaboration, The Likes of Us tells the true story of Thomas John Barnardo, a philanthropist who founded homes for destitute children.
- Starlight Express
- The Beautiful Game
- Whistle Down The Wind
- Stephen Ward
- Love Never Dies
- The Wizard of Oz
- Tell Me on A Sunday
- The Woman in White
- Cinderella
- School of Rock
Trains. Singing. On rollerskates. Why? Sure, the standard response is, ‘It’s for kids.’ But honestly, our nation’s youth have enough on their plates without having to worry about the love lives of a bunch of frisky steam engines. It runs permanently in a custom-built arena in a German city called Bochum: they can keep it.
Even at their worst, the truth is Lloyd Webber’s scores are rarely the main problem with his musicals, but his choice of lyricists not named ‘Tim Rice’ is often catastrophic. Teaming up with Ben Elton to write a very earnest original story about Ireland during The Troubles is possibly as bad an idea as either of them have ever had, and they have bo...
On paper, the pairing of Lloyd Webber and Meat Loaf’s songwriter Jim Steinman sounded agreeably bombastic. In reality, this adaptation of the classic Brit flick – torturously transposed to the American South – was ponderous and dull.
Maybe there is a good musical to be made from the scandal of the eponymous society osteopath, destroyed by the Profumo Affair. But this first priapic, then self-righteous romp through the Swinging Sixties isn’t it.
No, it’s not as bad as everybody says it was. Yes, it’s still fairly bad. This sequel to ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ looked good but lackedits predecessor’s campy panache or killer tunes.
A bit of a weird one: this 2011 musical marked Lloyd Webber’s first project with Tim Rice in aeons – yay! Butit was also explicitly an adaptation of the iconic 1939 film, retaining all of its original songs, and much of the script – hmm! The result was solid enough, but essentially underwhelming.
This hour-long song cycle is about as understated as Lloyd Webber gets. In a succession of gorgeously subtle pop ballads, a young woman stands alone on stage and sings about getting her heart broken by the cheating cads of New York. Alas, Don Black’s lyrics don’t show the sharpest of insights into the female psyche.
This 2004 crack at the West End is inspired by a pacy Wilkie Collins novel. It’s an excuse for Lloyd Webber to indulge his taste for Victorian frills, with mixed results: its female characters are feminist but a bit drippy, the music swings between enjoyable pastiche and insipid pastiche. Still, great frocks.
This ‘sassy’ musical take on the Cinderella story is mostly notable for Webber’s torturous battle to open it at the tail end of social distancing (at one point he threatened to go to jail rather than have reduced audiences). It has a genuinely pretty funny book by Oscar-winner Emerald Fenner, but it did little a bog standard panto wouldn’t and its ...
Look, the tunes in ‘School of Rock’ are very decent, and you would have to be a monster not to adore the axe-toting child performers. But its smug evangelism for baby boomer rock is painful.
Nov 6, 2022 · Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer famous for his work in musical theater. He has composed over twenty musicals, including the megahits Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera.
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There have been a number of film adaptations of Lloyd Webber's musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), directed by Norman Jewison; Evita (1996), directed by Alan Parker; The Phantom of the Opera (2004), directed by Joel Schumacher and co-produced by Lloyd Webber; and Cats (2019), directed by Tom Hooper and executive produced by Lloyd Webber.
Apr 24, 2024 · Explore this curated list of the best Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals of all time, including The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, and more - ranked by fans.
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Sep 13, 2023 · 10 best musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber: from 'Phantom of the Opera' to 'Cats'. Picture: Getty/Alamy. By Maddy Shaw Roberts. Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of musical theatre’s most prolific voices. His famous stage works range from biblical to animal – we rank his 10 best.
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