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The Phantom of the Opera is Andrew Lloyd Webber's longest-running Broadway musical. It played 13,981 performances before closing on the 16th of April 2023, making it the longest-running show in Broadway history.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed 21 musicals, along with a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.
Tim Rice was Andrew Lloyd Webber's first major collaborator. The two met in 1965 when Lloyd Webber was 17 and Rice was 20, and together they created Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has won seven Tony Awards, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, three Grammy Awards plus the Grammy Legend Award, an Academy Award, 14 Ivor Novello Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, and the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors. In 2018 he became the thirteenth person to hold an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony.
Lloyd Webber has faced several plagiarism accusations. The Puccini estate sued him in 1987 over similarities between "The Music of the Night" and a melody in La fanciulla del West; the case settled out of court. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters noted a resemblance between the organ riff in "The Phantom of the Opera" and the riff in the 1971 track "Echoes," calling it "probably actionable" but declining to sue.
The Sunday Times Rich List of 2019 ranked Andrew Lloyd Webber the wealthiest musician in the UK with a fortune of £820 million, placing him ahead of Paul McCartney. An earlier 2006 ranking placed his fortune at £700 million.