03274nam 22005894a 450 991080892200332120200520144314.01-281-72170-097866117217010-300-12845-210.12987/9780300128451(CKB)1000000000472001(StDuBDS)AH23049505(SSID)ssj0000103418(PQKBManifestationID)11131242(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103418(PQKBWorkID)10061112(PQKB)11248212(MiAaPQ)EBC3420170(DE-B1597)485032(OCoLC)952732829(DE-B1597)9780300128451(EXLCZ)99100000000047200120040224d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrAndrew Lloyd Webber /John Snelson ; with a foreword by Geoffrey Block, general editor1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20041 online resource (288 p.)Yale Broadway mastersBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-10459-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-248) and indexes.Aspects of life -- Telling tales : a survey of the shows -- Pop, rock, and classical : first elements of a style -- "Who are you, strange angel?" multiple personalities in The phantom of the opera -- "I'm ready for my close-up" : Lloyd Webber on screen -- "Memory" : musical reminiscences in Lloyd Webber -- "Now and forever" : canons and challenges.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.Yale Broadway masters.MusicalsHistory and criticismMusicalsHistory and criticism.782.1/4/092Snelson John1151786Block Geoffrey Holden1948-936001MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808922003321Andrew Lloyd Webber4101544UNINA