About This Quiz
Meeeemoriiiiiies ... are what you'll need to ace this quiz — memories of Lloyd Webber's professional rise and various stage (and screen) triumphs.He's a Londoner born and raised.
His mother was a violinist and pianist, and his father an organist.
The Lloyd Webbers can never be accused of lacking musical spirit.
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He started studying musical theatre at the college.
Rice met Lloyd Webber at Oxford, and the two became longtime musical collaborators.
First presented in 1968, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" made its way to Broadway in 1982.
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The original cantata was just 15 minutes long.
"Jesus Christ Superstar" became a smash hit.
"King Herod's Song" had different lyrics, but Lloyd Webber and Rice reworked it after getting rejected from the competition.
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It was released as an album in 1976 but was on Broadway in 1979.
The great LuPone can't be equaled.
We already know "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" after all.
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It was Lloyd Webber's first project without Tim Rice.
Lloyd Webber used the series of children's poems by T.S. Eliot as the basis of the musical.
But we think we'd like to write a musical about Diddlegoose the cat.
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It ran in London for a whopping 21 years.
And you'll see why they wear roller skates in the next question …
It makes a little more sense when you know that Lloyd Webber conceived the idea after trying to adapt the Thomas the Tank Engine books.
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If you find yourself in Bochum, Germany, plan on a night at the theatre.
Leroux's book was originally published in serial form near the beginning of the 20th century.
Brightman and Lloyd Webber were married from 1984 to 1990.
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And you better believe it's still running.
"Sunset Boulevard" won several Tonys.
"Bob's Your Uncle" sounds like it would be pretty entertaining, though.
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Nunn worked with Lloyd Webber on "Cats" and "Starlight Express."
The show was designed to find a lead actress for Lloyd Webber's 2006 staging of "The Sound of Music."
So that's the Right Honorable, the Lord Lloyd-Webber to you.
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No Emmy, but give it time.
The original song "You Must Love Me" was added to the film version of "Evita."
Kind of left field, but "School of Rock" is delightful nonetheless.
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