They split up when Rice wanted to do a musical about chess and Lloyd Webber was more interested in writing about cats. They had astonishing success back in the day, but haven't worked together since it all went wrong in the late Seventies.
Yes, he really is talking about Tim Rice, co-creator of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. 'He's doing the songs for The Wizard Of Oz with me. 'I'm working with Tim tomorrow, for the first time in 34 years.' He seems nervous, as well he might. 'We nurture we don't torture': Andrew on why his shows are different to Simon Cowell's The most eagerly awaited reunion in the history of musical theatre is about to take place at last, as Lloyd Webber tells me when he comes drifting in. And I'll have done press-ups with one of the biggest names in comedy - but let's not get ahead of ourselves. But the glory of his pad is just the first of the surprises my host has in store tonight.īy the time we finish he'll have accused Simon Cowell of torture, warned parents against sending their children to stage schools and turned against the Government (as a Tory peer). The walls are crammed with artworks worth a fortune. Lloyd Webber has knocked together several flats and houses to make a large, hidden home, with a long roof terrace that looks out over Belgravia. 'You look surprised,' says His Lordship's assistant Jan. A huge, dark room, and in the gloom stand three beautiful human-sized angels, guarding the Holy Grail. and it's astonishing, like entering another dimension.
'Oh yes,' says a woman's voice on the intercom. I'm looking for Andrew Lloyd Webber, First Lord of the Theatre and composer of lush, romantic melodies, whose home is surely a mansion swathed in velvet and adorned with golden cherubs - not this dusty little town house round the back of Victoria Station. This can't be the right place, I think as I push the doorbell. 'We've always been close over the years it's just that we've never found anything that we wanted to do,' said Andrew Lloyd Webber on working with Tim Rice on The Wizard Of Oz after a hiatus of 34 years
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