Unmasked: A Memoir by Andrew Lloyd Webber - Review
I once asked a young friend of mine if she enjoyed musicals. "I saw Wicked and I really liked it," she exclaimed. This took me aback, for a moment. To me, musicals are the classic American works like Guys and Dolls , Oklahoma! , and Singin' In The Rain . But of course, to most people today, musicals are those mega-productions like Wicked or Hamilton . If anyone is to take credit- or blame- for the modern musical, it must be Andrew Lloyd Webber. Composer and creator of hit shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar , Cats and Phantom of the Opera , Lloyd Webber is inarguably the most successful musical creator of all time. Unmasked: A Memoir is Andrew Lloyd Webber's account of his childhood and the beginnings of his career, up until the mid-1980s and the release of Phantom of the Opera . This book was a surprising gift from my wife, who knows I am no fan of Lloyd Webber's musicals. Reading reviews of the book, however, she thought I might find the behind-the-scenes s