![]() The great hullabaloo about the musical made a certainty of his further successes. In 1981 the recording of Jesus Christ Superstar was given the Grammy Award for best cast show album of the year. The musical closed on Broadway on June 30, 1973, after 720 performances it received 7 Tony awards. There were protests by religious groups against the irreverent treatment of a sacred subject particularly offensive was the suggestion in the play of a carnal relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalen Jewish organizations, on the other hand, protested against the implied portrayal of the Jews as guilty of the death of Christ. 12, 1971, even before the London production. Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway on Oct. Interestingly enough, the “rock opera,” as it was called, was first released as a record album, which eventually sold 3 million copies. 9, 1972, and ran for 3,357 performances it was as successful in America. He achieved his first commercial success with Jesus Christ Superstar, an audacious treatment of the religious theme in terms of jazz and rock. In 1970 it was produced in America and in 1972 was shown on television. 21, 1972), and achieved considerable success for its amalgam of a biblical subject with rock music, French chansonnettes, and country-western songs. Paul’s Junior School in London in 1968 it was later expanded to a full-scale production (Edinburgh, Aug. In 1967, at the age of 19, he composed the theatrical show Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which was performed at St. In college he wrote his first musical, The Likes of Us, dealing with a philanthropist. He attended Westminster School in London, then went to Magdalen Coll., Oxford, the Guildhall School of Music in London, and the Royal Coll. Inspired and conditioned by such an environment, Lloyd Webber learned to play piano, violin, and horn, and soon began to improvise music, mostly in the style of American musicals. of Music and his mother was a piano teacher. His father, William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, was the director of the London Coll. ![]() Lloyd Webber, Sir Andrew, tremendously successful English composer, brother of Julian Lloyd Webber b.
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