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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948-, British theatrical composer. A member of a successful musical family, he began composing musicals as a teenager; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) was an early work done in collaboration with the lyricist Tim Rice. Lloyd Webber's spectacular string of... Read more |
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Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin 1914-98, English biophysicist. For their work in analyzing the electrical and chemical events in nerve-cell discharge, he and Andrew Huxley shared with Sir John Eccles the 1963 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. He was a research professor of the Royal Society... Read more |
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Andrew Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law , 1858-1923, British statesman, b. Canada. He went to Scotland as a boy and in 1900, after a business career, was elected to Parliament as a Conservative. He soon became known as a spokesman for tariff reform. In 1911 he succeeded Arthur Balfour as leader of the Conservative party.... Read more |
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Evita
Evita (1979). The musical about the factual Eva Peron, from her humble beginnings to her marriage to the Argentine dictator Juan Peron to her early death, was a London hit before opening at the Broadway Theatre for a run of 1,567 performances, becoming the longest‐running foreign musical... Read more |
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Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman Singer English-born soprano Sarah Brightman enjoys a busy career as a performer of popular, classical, and theater music. She is one of the foremost interpreters of the work of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, to whom she was married for several years. Brightman's versatility well... Read more |
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Glenn Close
Glenn Close 1947-, American actress, b. Greenwich, Conn. She began her career in the theater, debuting on Broadway in Love for Love (1974), winning an Obie for the off-Broadway The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (1982) and a Tony for Tom Stoppard 's The Real Thing (1984). She achieved... Read more |
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Fort Henry
Fort Henry Confederate fortification on the Tennessee River, S of the Ky.-Tenn. line; site of the first major Union victory of the Civil War (Feb. 6, 1862). The fort was attacked and reduced by Union gunboats commanded by Commodore Andrew Foote. Confederate commander Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, foreseeing... Read more |
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Sir Austen Chamberlain
Sir Austen Chamberlain (Joseph Austen Chamberlain) , 1863-1937, British statesman; son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Neville Chamberlain . He entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1892. He was chancellor of the exchequer (1903-5), secretary of state for India (1915-17), a member... Read more |
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Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin 1867-1947, British statesman; cousin of Rudyard Kipling. The son of a Worcestershire ironmaster, he was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the family business. In 1908 he was elected to Parliament as a Conservative. In 1916 he became parliamentary... Read more |
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William Maxwell Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook, 1st Baron 1879-1964, British financier, statesman, and newspaper owner, b. Canada. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman, he grew up near Beaverbrook, N.B. He made a fortune in business and was probably a millionaire when he went to England in 1910. There... Read more |
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Webber, Andrew Lloyd
Webber, Andrew Lloyd (b. 1948), composer. The London‐born son of musical parents, he first...also an important producer and theatre owner in England. Biography: Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works, Michael Walsh, 1989. |
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Lloyd Webber, Andrew
Lloyd Webber, Andrew (1948– ) English composer. He composed Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1967) while still a student. The... |
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Phantom of the Opera, The
...it has a book by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, and music by Webber. The West End smash hit was quickly brought...same time but, unable to compete with the Webber version on Broadway, opted to play in... |
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musical
...Audiences in the 1970s responded to the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, such as Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) and Evita (1978). Lloyd Webber was extremely successful in the 1980s with Cats... |
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Nunn, Trevor Robert
...Well (also 1981). In the same year he directed Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, demonstrating his ability to handle large...Aspects of Love (1989; NY, 1990), both by Lloyd Webber, Chess (1986; NY, 1987), and The Baker's Wife... |
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Coe, Jonathan
...professional musicians in London, and is as much a low-key thriller as a vicious attack on the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber. What a Carve Up! (1994) is a satire on 1980s Conservative Britain, and centres on a writer who is commissioned... |
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Evita
...performances, becoming the longest‐running foreign musical yet seen on Broadway. The sung‐through musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics) featured Patti LuPone in the title role, making her a Broadway star. Hal Prince... |
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Prince of Wales Theatre
...the National Theatre. Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific was successfully revived in 1988, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Aspects of Love began a long run in 1989.The Scala, under the Bancrofts, was also known as the Prince... |
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Ayckbourn, Alan
...the same house during the same week-end. A musical, Jeeves (1975), based on P. G. Wodehouse, for which Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music, was not a success, but in the same year Absent Friends had a long run. In Bedroom Farce (National... |
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English Musicals (Other Than Gilbert and Sullivan) in America
...upon as almost sui generis and had little real influence on the development of American musicals. Since then such Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals as Evita, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera have enjoyed remarkable successes, but their influence... |
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Lloyd Webber, (Sir) Andrew
Lloyd Webber, (Sir) Andrew (b London, 1948). Eng. composer. With Tim Rice (b 1944...Variations (1978) for vc. and jazz ens. (for brother Julian Lloyd Webber), musical Cats based on poems by T. S. Eliot (1981), Song... |
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Lloyd Webber, Julian
Lloyd Webber, Julian (b London, 1951). Eng. cellist. Début London 1972. Gave...conc. for him, 1981. Soloist with leading Brit. orchs. Brother, Andrew Lloyd Webber, wrote Variations for vc. and jazz ens. for him. |
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Lloyd Webber, William
Lloyd Webber, William (b London, 1914; d London, 1982). Eng. organist, composer, and teacher. Father of Andrew and Julian Lloyd Webber. Studied at RCM 1931–5. Dir., London Coll. of Mus. 1964... |
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musical comedy
...Stop the World—I Want to Get Off (1961), Charlie Girl (1965, Taylor and Heneker), but it was left to Andrew Lloyd Webber to chart a new course with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970... |
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Coming third.(Andrew Lloyd Webber; third career breeding racehorses)(Brief...
...The Lloyd- Webbers' investment...fee. Lord Lloyd-Webber bought Watership...between Lord Lloyd-Webber and his wife...He says the Lloyd- Webbers have been "very...enough to pay back ... |
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Daddy's greatest hit; IMOGEN LLOYD WEBBER is the daughter of one the...
...Christmas: the other is Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The...between the two Lloyd Webbers seems even more remote...decided to hate all things Lloyd Webberish. Either...out of bounds. While Andrew ... |
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Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber comes to Indiana U.
...The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" will bring these...1982 helped Lloyd Webber to become the first...of many of these Lloyd Webber productions...features all (of Lloyd ... |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber starts to think on a smaller scale
...HEALY International Herald Tribune 07-15-2011 Andrew Lloyd Webber starts to think on a smaller scaleByline: PATRICK...might stop involving himself in future productions. Andrew Lloyd Webber has earned seven Tony Awards, a ... |
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The Age Demanded Lloyd Webber.(Andrew Lloyd Webber, theatrical composer)
Is Andrew Lloyd Webber--the creative force behind such cultural icons as Evita, Phantom...Ezra Pound A few years ago an amusing anecdote about Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber was doing the rounds. It was said to have taken place just... |
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Darkness in tune; Andrew Lloyd-Webber will be hoping his gelding hits the...
...who will don the colours of Lady Lloyd Webber in the Aintree spectacular. West End legend Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, famous for creating such musical...manager, Simon Marsh, hopes the Lloyd-Webbers will be in ... |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber presents ... Secret's out: Summer's true identity is...
...Of Music just as Andrew Lloyd Webber walks by. Enchanted...their midst. Lloyd Webber is indeed a man...fiction?' Lloyd Webber had already chosenSummer...she says. 'Then Andrew began ... |
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The music of Andrew Lloyd Webber invades Manila in June.(Showbiz)
...enthralling and timeless music of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber brought us to Australia recently...Taiwan, and Korea. "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" is presented in Manila by Lunchbox...Concertus in association with ... |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' film emerges from the shadows
...midsummer afternoon outside, but Andrew Lloyd Webber is standing inside a cool, dim...belting out "Masquerade" while Lloyd Webber and film director Joel Schumacher...sing on the opera house roof,'" Lloyd ... |
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The cloning of Andrew Lloyd Webber
...stay the night. And it will show Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard and nothing but Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard...at the box office. Today, 32 Andrew Lloyd ... |
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