The first amateur performance was by a children's theatre group in Cornwall called "Kidz R Us".
In 2008, amateur rights were released by the National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) in association with the Really Useful Group.
Īlthough composed in 1965, The Likes of Us was not publicly performed until 2005, when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival. They produced a demo tape of that work in 1966, but the project failed to gain a backer. Their first collaboration was The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo. The 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice in 1965. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music and pursue his interest in musical theatre. He also had originally set music to Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats at the age of 15. His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. He also put on "productions" with Julian and his Aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at Viola's suggestion). Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age, a suite of six pieces at the age of nine. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a noted solo cellist. Īndrew Lloyd Webber was born in Kensington, London, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist. In 1992 he set up the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture and heritage in the UK. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music, seven Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Ranked the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" by The Telegraph in 2008, the lyricist Don Black stated "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical." In 2001 the New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history".
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Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "You Must Love Me" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "Memory" from Cats. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.
Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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