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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
British Composer
Born: Mar 22, 1948
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You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The fact is that 'The Wizard Of Oz' has never really worked in the theatre. The film has one or two holes where, in the theatre, you need a song. For example, there's nothing for either of the two witches to sing. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there). Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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