March 22, 1948
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, a British composer and author of world-famous musicals that have been performed in London’s West End and New York’s Broadway for decades, was born in London on today’s date. He wrote twenty-one musicals, various cycles of songs, a string of
variations, two film scores and a requiem mass, and numerous songs achieved great success outside of musicals.
Those are, above all: The Music of the Night, All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera, I Don’t Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar, Memory from Cats …
He has won numerous awards, of which seven Tony Awards, three Grammys, an Oscar, an Emmy, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe and the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors stand out.
Translation: Jelena Čolović