Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most famous—and most controversial—composer of musical theater alive today. Hundreds of millions of people have seen his musicals, which include Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Sunset Boulevard. Even more know his songs.
Lloyd Webber’s many awards include seven Tonys and three Grammys—but he has nonetheless been the subject of greater critical vitriol than any of his artistic peers. Why have both the man and his work provoked such extreme responses? Does he challenge his audiences, or merely recycle the comfortable and familiar? Over three decades, how has Lloyd Webber changed fundamentally what a musical can be?
In this sustained examination of Lloyd Webber’s creative career, the music scholar John Snelson explores the vast range of influences that have informed Lloyd Webber’s work, from film, rock, and pop music to Lloyd Webber’s own life story. This rigorous and sympathetic survey will be essential reading for anyone interested in Lloyd Webber’s musicals and the world of modern musical theater that he has been so instrumental in shaping.
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"This is an extremely comprehensive, well-balanced and rich survey of Andrew Lloyd Webber's entire career."—William A. Everett, co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Musical
“It is a considerable tribute to the quintessentially British Andrew Lloyd Webber that he should feature so early in a Broadway Masters series: John Snelson's masterly account of his music is not intended as a full-scale biography, but as a technical study of his work it is unbeatable.”—Sheridan Morley
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"It is a considerable tribute to the quintessentially British Andrew Lloyd Webber that he should feature so early in a Broadway Masters series: John Snelson’s masterly account of his music is not intended as a full-scale biography, but as a technical study of his work it is unbeatable."--Sheridan Morley
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Good academic treatment,
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This review is from: Andrew Lloyd Webber (Yale Broadway Masters Series) (Kindle Edition)
John Snelson's book is a good academic treatment of Lloyd Webber's work, not a biography. Snelson looks at Lloyd Webber's work as a whole, comparing themes, Lloyd Webber's maturation as a composer, other elements of his work and posits Lloyd Webber as a Broadway Master. While it may lean a little too favorable to the composer, particularly with regards to his recycling of previous material, it is a good read and probably the most insightful look at his work that I have read.
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Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, West End, Aspects of Love, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Really Useful Group Ltd, The Beautiful Game, New York, Don Juan Triumphant, Tim Rice, Music of the Night, Angel of Music, Sydmonton Festival, Madame Giry, Sarah Brightman, Love Changes Everything, United States, Thousand Stars, The Odessa File, Hal Prince, Prima Donna, Trevor Nunn Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music) by William A. Everett in Front Matter, and page 101
- Richard Rodgers by Geoffrey Holden Block in Front Matter
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