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"Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat" was the musical that put Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice on the map.
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"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" was the musical that put Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice on the map. Its humble beginnings as a simple pop cantata with a Biblical theme in a school hall in March 1968 were all part of its charm and freshness. The whole serendipity of how Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice got together informs the bounciness of the early work they produced. Webber had written music from the age of six or seven. His father was a composer, organist, and teacher at one of the leading London colleges, and his mother taught piano to young children. But in a Webber biography he talks of a life changing experience when he was asked to play the violin in a school concert: He said, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to play six songs on the piano, and I'm going to dedicate each one of...
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