Andrew Lloyd Webber
John Snelson(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 10. September 2004
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-300-10459-2 (ISBN)
Description
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most famous - and most controversial - composer of musical theatre 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 Technicolour 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 theatre that he has been so instrumental in shaping.
Reviews / Votes
"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: as a technical study of Lloyd Weber's work, John Snelson's masterly account is unbeatable." Sheridan Morley"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
34 illus, 27 music examples
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-10459-2 (9780300104592)
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John Snelson | Geoffrey Holden Block
Andrew Lloyd Webber
E-Book
12/2004
1st Edition
Yale University Press
€55.39
Available for download
Person
John Snelson is Editor of Publications at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.