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Andrew Lloyd Webber (Facts, Quotes (No more memories, no more silent tears…
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Facts
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Studied at Westminster school,Magdalen college and oxford Royal college of Music.
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His aunt Viola was an actress she took him to many of her shows Hence his world of theatre was born.
In 1965 he studied history of westminster school for a term but abandoned the subject in Winter 1965 to study musical theatre at Royal College of music to pursue musical theatre.
His first work was collaborated/ produced in 1965 it was called the likes of us. The lyricist was Tim Rice but it wasn't shown till 2005.
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Webber owns six london theatres including: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London Palladium
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Three grammys Oscar Kennedy Honor award Seven Olivers Golden Globe Praemium imperiale. Two international Emmys
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Quotes
No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.”
“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”
“Look with your heart and not with your eyes. The heart understands. The heart never lies. Believe what it feels, and trust what it shows. Look with your heart; the heart always knows. Love is not always beautiful, not at the start. But open your arms, and close your eyes tight. Look with your heart and when it finds love, your heart will be right.”
“Love never dies. Love will continue. Love keeps on beating when you're gone. Love never dies once it is in you. Life may be fleeting; love lives on! Life may be fleeting! Love lives on...”
“Think of me, think of me fondly
“And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass! Let dreams pass! Let them die! Without you, what are they for? I always feel no more than half-way real 'til I hear you sing once more!”
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1985 - Webber comes across a copy of the original Leroux novel in a second hand book shop in New York and buys it for a dollar. The book inspired him to create a romantic musical score for his new wife Sarah Brightman.
His father William, was the director of the London college of music.
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His brother Julian,is a cellist.
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Childhood pastimes surface in work + approach to staging. ---- His ability to envision productions steamed from working on his toy theatre
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Productions of his musicals- often lavish. While his musical score which display such varied influences as rock n roll ,country, blues ,opera demonstrated gift for melody.
well known - basing musical around love + romance. Represented by: phantom of the opera,Love never dies,Aspects of love.
Phantom of the opera
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story - mysterious phantom of the opera -lives in Paris opera house , characters believe him to be a myth.
Mysterious things happen when Christine Daae meets phantom. plot thickens when Christine finds that the phantom has fallen in love with voice + her. Mask he wears covers his disfigured face - caused him a life of pain +abandonment. Problems occur - Christine is united with her childhood sweetheart,Raoul, and deadly things start to happen as the phantoms repressed anger grows. originally started - Michael Crawford as the male lead and webber spouse Sarah Brightman as the female lead - fell in love
Based on french novel le fantome de l’opera by Gaston Leroux, original writer remembered accident 1896 - Chandeliers counterweights fallen on the audience.
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Cats
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Tells a story = tribe of cats( jellicles) and @ night -make jellicle choice + decide which cat will ascend to the heaviside layer and come back to life.
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Critical analysis
Critics differ widely , to some John Rockwell says “ he is the savior and regenerator ofthe very gene of music” a composer of melodic genius and telling theatrical savvy” and “ as a producer regarded as a resource for the revitalisation of the musical on both sides of the atlantic
first musical = Jesus christ superstar debuted Broadway October 1971 @ Mark Hellinger Theatre New York. Highlights political + interpersonal struggles between Judas iscariot and Jesus that are not permitted in the bibles narratives. 1980 after 3358 performances Jesus christ superstar = longest running musical in west east history agroast $1.3 million.