With the fully staged production of Les Misérables open in the West End alongside Hamilton, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera, and with Miss Saigon open in Austria and Mary Poppins in Tokyo and Sydney, Cameron remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals, with over 50 shows either on or in pre-production internationally.Ĭameron’s Original productions include Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats – the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4th decades – Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Little Shop of Horrors, Song and Dance, Tomfoolery, Martin Guerre, The Witches of Eastwick, Five Guys Named Moe and Side by Side by Sondheim.
To mark his 70th birthday, his best-selling autobiography Unmasked was published by Harper Collins in March 2018. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre.Īndrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. His mantra that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings has meant that considerable work has been undertaken across his theatre portfolio during the pandemic, including the complete re-modelling and re-seating of the Gillian Lynne. It is one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. Reopening in July 2021, the latter has been completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. Before the COVID pandemic hit, Lloyd Webber had shows continually running in the West End for 48 years and on Broadway for 41. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1969) to Cinderella (2021), his work has been consistently seen on world stages. Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals.
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