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Andrew Lloyd Webber to Receive Kennedy Center Honor

Andrew Lloyd Webber
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

Tony Award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will be one of five recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, which will be presented in Washington D.C. on December 2. The other honorees will be Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg, country singer/songwriter Dolly Parton, pop singer Smokey Robinson, and classical musical conductor Zubin Mehta.

A gala performance saluting the honorees at the Kennedy Center will take place in December 3 for broadcast on CBS-TV later in the month. Details on that event will be announced at a later date.

Lord Lloyd Webber received Tony Awards for Best Score for Evita, Cats, and Sunset Boulevard, and received nominations for Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Song and Dance, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love, and The Woman in White. In addition, he has won numerous British awards for these shows as well as The Beautiful Game and Tell Me on a Sunday.

He also won the Academy Award for You Must Love Me, a ballad he wrote for Madonna to sing in the film version of Evita, and a nomination for Learn to Be Lonely, which was specifically written for the film version of Phantom. A film version of Sunset Boulevard has been announced, starring Glenn Close, but no firm filming date has been set.