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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Mar 22, 2023, 12:26 PM Mar 2023

On this day, March 22, 1948, Andrew Lloyd Webber was born.

Sun Mar 22, 2020: Born on this day, March 22, 1948; Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "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" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and "Memory" from Cats. In 2001 The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". The Daily Telegraph ranked him the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" in 2008, with lyricist Don Black writing "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."

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On this day, March 22, 1948, Andrew Lloyd Webber was born. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 OP
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Wed Mar 22, 2023, 12:48 PM
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I have had the absolute privilege of seeing most of his Broadway shows. Phantom... more than once. JCsuperstar was my first ever B-way experience in 1971. (Yeah... I'm old.)
Phantom has ended it's run, but the scuttlebutt is that they are re-tooling the show and building new sets to reopen in the not to distant future. If you never saw it, and have the opportunity, it is not to be missed. Until then... the movie.




BTW: It is also Stephen Sondheim's Birthday!
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