Andrew Lloyd Webber
By: John Snelson ; with a foreword by Geoffrey Block
Contributors: Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-
Series: Yale Broadway masters; Yale Broadway masters
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780300151138
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Musicals
Description: John Snelson explores the influences that have informed the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber, from film, rock & pop music, to Lloyd Webber's own life story. In so doing he explores what has made the artist such a controversial figure. Does he challenge his audiences, or merely recycle the comfortable & familiar?
Notes: Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Aspects of life; title: Telling tales : a survey of the shows; title: Pop, rock, and classical : first elements of a style; title: "Who are you, strange angel?" multiple personalities in The phantom of the opera; title: "I'm ready for my close-up" : Lloyd Webber on screen; title: "Memory" : musical reminiscences in Lloyd Webber; title: "Now and forever" : canons and challenges.