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37 unusual facts about Andrew Lloyd Webber


50 Ways to Say Goodbye

The melody of the song has also been compared with "The Phantom of the Opera" theme from the musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Agnetha Fältskogs bästa

The first of those, "Vart ska min kärlek föra", is a Swedish version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him", originally from Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

Alen Hodzovic

He played Raoul in the Stuttgart production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and Ken in a German-language production of John Logan's play Red.

Amblimation

A project to adapt the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats was in the making, but was abandoned with the studio's closure.

Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music

In 2007, Baldwin Wallace was selected to perform one of six pre-release pilot productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.

Broken Windows, Empty Hallways

# "Everything's Alright" (Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber) - 4:18

Busse Woods

"39 Lashes" is also a cover song, originally appearing on Jesus Christ Superstar, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

Cairo Celebration Choir

So far, the choir performed Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, and highlights from classical choral works (including George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others)in addition to Gregorian chants at the historical location of the Citadel.

Cécilia Cara

Cécilia was also given the task in 2004 of vocally dubbing the role Christine Daaé for the French cinema release of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera".

Dancenorth

She still continues her association with Meryl Tankard and over the past few years has worked with her to remount productions all over the world as well as assisting her in London with the choreography of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical 'The Beautiful Game (1999).

Dar Re Mi

Dar Re Mi (foaled 2005 in Great Britain) is a Thoroughbred racehorse owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber and trained by John Gosden.

Fates Worse Than Death

This book also includes a "humanist requiem" that Vonnegut wrote as a reaction to the Roman Catholic Requiem, which he had heard in Andrew Lloyd Webber's setting and whose text he found "terrible and sadistic".

Gaston Leroux

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1911), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.

Good Shepherd Cathedral School

The year-long celebration culminated with the school's production of the musical The Dreamer (an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) which showcased the superb talents of GSCS students.

Grammy Legend Award

The first Grammy Legend Awards were issued in 1990 to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Liza Minnelli, Smokey Robinson and Willie Nelson.

It Records

it Records was a pop record label of the late 1990s and early 2000s that was an offshoot of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group.

Jesus Christ Superstars

# "Jesus Christ Superstar" (Lloyd Webber/Rice) – 5:45

John Gummer

On 21 June he was created a life peer as Baron Deben, of Winston in the County of Suffolk, and introduced in the House of Lords the same day, supported by his brother, Lord Chadlington, and the composer Lord Lloyd-Webber.

John William Godward

One of his best known paintings is Dolce far Niente (1904), which currently resides in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

King's High School, Dunedin

King's being the first New Zealand high school to perform Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical in fifteen years.

Live Alone and Like It

The episode was originally titled An Unexpected Song which comes from Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical, Song and Dance.

Livent

In 1989, after an internal struggle within the company, Cineplex executives Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb negotiated to buy the division, which then included the Pantages Theatre, Toronto, and rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Madame Giry

In Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Madame Giry's role is changed to become a slightly younger woman who now works as a choreographer of the corps de ballet.

She is a fairly intermediate character in the novel, although her role is much increased in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

Madeleine Gurdon

Madeleine Astrid Gurdon, Baroness Lloyd-Webber, (born 30 November 1962) is an English former equestrian sportswoman, and the third and current wife of musical theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Madison Avenue Baptist Church

On April 4, 1971, the "first" U.S. concert version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar was presented by the Bel Canto Opera in the church.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico

In 2006 the people of S.P.A produced their first musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and in 2007 S.P.A. produced their second musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Nico Marlet

He also worked on an unproduced animated version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats.

North Raleigh Christian Academy

In the fall of 2010, the theatre department put on You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and, in the spring of 2010, was among the nation's first high schools to produce Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

Ray Repp

Repp got some mainstream notoriety in 1997 when he sued composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, asserting that Lloyd Webber had plagairized portions of his "Phantom Song" from his own composition "Till You".

Scordatura

The cello soloist's final note of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Variations requires the player to play and retune in one movement, creating a dramatic glissando effect to the A below the cello's normal lowest note of C.

The Catillac Cats

His name may be a tribute to the movie character, or perhaps was influenced by the name of Mungojerrie in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.

The Fugue

The Fugue is a dark bay or brown filly with a white star and stripe and white socks on her hind legs bred by her owner, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Watership Down stud.

The Original Soundtrack

Its melody can also be heard in the overture to Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera.

The Phantom of the Opera

The most notable of these are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, Sr and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.

Toronto Centre for the Arts

Prior to Jersey Boys, the facility was the home of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard and a 1993 production of Show Boat that transferred to Broadway.

Toronto Phantoms

The name came from The Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that played at the Canon Theatre (then Pantages Theatre) in Toronto for nine years.


Ann Mandrella

In 2009, she played the title role in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita in the Dortmund Theater in Germany, as well as Gitta in the European premiere of the Gershwin musical Pardon My English at the Staatsoperette Dresden.

As I Came of Age

The album features a diverse collection of songs including “Good Morning Starshine” from the musical Hair, “Yesterday” by Aimee Mann, “Love Changes Everything” from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, and “Some Girls” by Lisa Burns and Sal Maida.

Ayshea

Following an engagement to Roy Wood, who produced her single "Farewell", she later married Steve Alder who was starring as Jesus Christ in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical, "Jesus Christ Superstar".

Bob Bingham

Bingham is most remembered for playing the role of Caiaphas in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.

Darius de Haas

Among his more recent acting projects has been playing Jesus in the Alliance Theatre's re-imagining of Webber-Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar (re-titled JCS Gospel).

David Burt

Burt recently starred as the flamboyant Count Fosco opposite Yvette Robinson in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White at the Palace Theatre and was featured as Captain Andy Hawks in Show Boat at the Royal Albert Hall.

Edward Petherbridge

Petherbridge has performed in stage musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White, Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, Coco by André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner, and most recently a musical version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service

With Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber asked to create an official single for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the documentary starts with them writing the melody and music of the song together, whilst also showing Gary talking to Prince Charles and discussing what The Queen would enjoy listening to in the song.

Henry McCullough

McCullough played on The Grease Band's eponymous album after splitting with Cocker, and during his time with the band he also appeared as lead guitarist on the original 1970 recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar and on the progressive Spooky Tooth album The Last Puff.

Jellicle cats

Jellicle cats, or simply the Jellicles, are a type of feline mentioned in T.S. Elliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and in Cats, a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the book.

Jenny Lee-Wright

By the late 1980s, she had switched completely to Foley work, including such films as My Left Foot (1989), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004) based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

Linda Balgord

Linda Balgord is an award winning American Broadway actress and singer, most notable for playing Norma Desmond in the 1996 United States tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical Sunset Boulevard, being the last actress to portray Grizabella in the original Broadway run of Cats and originating the role of Queen Elizabeth I in The Pirate Queen on Broadway.

Phyllida Crowley Smith

Theatre credits include Heathcliff, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (playing the role of Victoria the White Cat), Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Phantom of the Opera.

Ross Hannaman

Both of the singles are very rare and highly sought after by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice collectors.

She was initially managed by Tim Rice, and he and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote both of her singles and their subsequent b-sides.

Summer Shaw

The character is most notable for being 'planted' in the show as publicity for an Andrew Lloyd Webber produced stage production of The Sound of Music.

Susan H. Schulman

In 1998, Schulman had just mounted a well-received Broadway revival of The Sound of Music when she was contacted by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who asked her to adapt a scaled-down production of Sunset Boulevard for a US tour starring Petula Clark.

That Sounds Good to Me

This followed the same process as the previous year, where multiple acts performed "It's My Time", composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Dianne Warren.

Vivian Ellis

Ellis gave all the writers the same advice: "Try and put at least one hit song in every musical you write." Several of the promising writers featured in the competition went on to success, including Charles Hart who wrote lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of The Phantom of the Opera, and Philip Glassborow whose comedy musical The Great Big Radio Show! was a personal favourite.