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- noun English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948)
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Examples
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How appropriate iTunes just finished playing "I Sleep With Everyone," the Forbidden Broadway parody of "Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love known as the Lloyd Webber musical that sucked more than usual, but not as much as Sunset Boulevard.
Wednesday stuff yendi 2005
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The man himself - Lloyd Webber, that is - escorts me into the gutted auditorium where an army of technicians and banks of computer screens are rather more suggestive of space exploration than musical theatre.
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Though it has certainly known bloated productions before, "Joseph" is Lloyd Webber light and sweet - an early, funny one among his juggernaut-laden canon.
Nelson Pressley reviews Olney's 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' 2011
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What Stephen Sondheim told theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh "The great thing about you, Cameron, is that you make commerce out of art, you don't try and make art out of commerce" is also true of Lloyd Webber.
I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011
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Lloyd Webber's songwriting can be brutal; he needs singers who can belt notes that leap up the scale at punishing intervals, and Gamble does that pretty well and manages to be a charming hostess, to boot.
Nelson Pressley reviews Olney's 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' 2011
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The additions by Lloyd Webber and Rice are also perfectly acceptable.
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Even as I write, avatars of the hideously deformed subterranean whiner and his doe-eyed snit of a love interest are performing or poised to perform in productions of Lloyd Webber's musical in South Africa, Vegas, Kyoto, New York – and in a special anniversary performance at the Albert Hall tomorrow night.
I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011
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It's an unthreatening simulacrum of dark passion in which everything wild and unheimlich about sexual obsession, murder, disfigurement and – my personal favourite – Dostoyevskian self-loathing is benumbed with unremittingly sweet tunes many of which, according to Kit and the Widow's turn at August's Comedy Prom, Lloyd Webber recycled from older, better composers.
I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011
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Lloyd Webber didn't have the courage to make the Phantom really dark or disturbed.
I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011
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When I met him in 2004, Lloyd Webber said he'd run out of ideas and was thinking of doing a song cycle about the Warsaw ghetto.
I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011
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