Andrew Lloyd Webber (Yale Broadway Masters Series) - Hardcover

Snelson, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300104596 ISBN 13: 9780300104592

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"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

About the Author:

John Snelson is Editor of Publications at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300104596
• ISBN 13: 9780300104592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288