Andrew Lloyd Webber Research Paper

According to Tim Rice “Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do, they tend to go down the tubes” This was his explanation for not wanting to continue his collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Rice and Lloyd Webber met in 1965, aged 20 and 17 respectively, and together they have created some of the most acclaimed musicals of all time like Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on the 22nd of March 1948 in Kensington, London and the son of William Lloyd Webber and Jean Hermione Johnstone. Webber was born into a musical family since his father was a composer and organist and his mother was a violinist and pianist. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a famous solo cellist. Andrew was an innate prodigy, he played learned to play the piano and the French horn at age 3, and the age of 6 he began writing his own music. He would out up his own productions with his bother Julian and his Aunt Viola in a toy theater that he built himself. His aunt was an actress and she influenced his interest in theater because she would take him to see a lot of her shows. Then in 1965 at age 17 became a Queen’s Scholar, the longest-established

Tim Rice.” Soon they began working on their first musical The Likes of Us (1965), which would not go public until 2005. Three years later they composed a 20 minute pop oratorio that would later on serve as the base to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), from there many more collaborations came about, Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Evita (1976), and Cricket