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Andrew Lloyd Webber's first musical with lyricist Tim Rice was The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo. This musical wasn't performed... until as recently as 2005 when a production of The Likes Of Us was staged at Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival. The music and lyrics had a light, breezy charm that also characterised their next musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a work which they were commissioned to write for Colet Court, a prep school, in 1968. Joseph gained some recognition on its second staging with a favorable review in The Times. For its subsequent performances, the musical underwent a number of revisions by Lloyd Webber and Rice with the inclusion of additional songs that expanded the musical to a more substantial length. This culminated in a two hour long production being staged in the West End on the back of the success of their third musical together, Jesus Christ Superstar (1970).
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's first major collaboration with lyricist Tim Rice was The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo. It was not performed... until as recently as 2005 when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival. Stylistically, The Likes of Us is fashioned after the Broadway musical of the '40s and '50s; it opens with a traditional overture comprising a medley of tunes from the show, and the score reflects some of Lloyd Webber's early influences, particularly Richard Rodgers, Frederick Loewe, and Lionel Bart. In this respect, it is markedly different from the composer's later work which tends to be either predominantly or wholly through-composed and closer in form to opera than to the Broadway musical.
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It is incredible, when you put them together, how many amazing songs Andrew Lloyd Webber has created. What's even more amazing is that these are songs that did not remain in musical theatre. More
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's plans to reopen the musical in London's West End from late 2006 are progressing well. The London Palladium has now been confirmed as the potential venue and Live Nation's David Ian will co-produce with Jeremy Sans at the helm. Already names potentially linked with the new show include Lesley Garrett and Robert Lindsay, whilst the role of Maria will be found on a search across the talent of the UK in a new reality TV show, produced by and starring Lloyd Webber as well as comedian Graham Norton to find the new star. The show will begin previews from November 24, 2006 and will have its opening night on December 5, 2006. The show is initially booking until April 14, 2007 and it is thought that tickets will go on sale sometime in June.
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In 1965, Andrew Lloyd Webber met Tim Rice and dropped out of Oxford and worked with him. Their first musical, “The Likes of Us”, was a failure and never performed. Alan Dogget, head of music at a small prep school in London, asked Webber to compose something religious for their end term concert. Webber and Rice turned to the Bible and found the story of Jacob and his son Joseph. “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” was born.Throughout his career, Andrew Lloyd Webber has won many distinguishing awards including an Academy Award (for the film version of “Evita” in 1997), Tony Awards, and Grammy Awards.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in 1948. He is the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, the film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File, Evita, Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, Requiem, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind and The Beautiful Game, scheduled to open in London in 2000. He has won six Tony awards, four Drama Desk awards, three Grammys including Best Classical Contemporary Composition for Requiem in 1986 and five Laurence Olivier awards. In 1992, Andrew Lloyd Webber 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 Music in 1995. In 1996 he received the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre.
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