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Andrew Lloyd Webber at 70: how a ruthless perfectionist became Mr Musical by Michael Billington

He took the shonky British musical and made it a global phenomenon. As the composer celebrates his birthday with a new memoir, our theatre critic looks back at the hits " and flopsI first became aware of the global reach of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who hits 70 this week, one afternoon in Tbilisi in 1988. I was there with a party of journalists accompanying a National Theatre tour of Shakespeare's late plays. We were invi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM on March 21, 2018

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