Description: "[The author] shares his recollections of the works that have become cultural touchstones for generations of fans ... Reflecting a life that included many passions (from architecture to Turkish Swimming Cats), full of witty and revealing anecdotes, and featuring cameo appearances by numerous celebrities ... [this memoir] at last reveals the true face of the extraordinary man beneath the storied legend"--Amazon.com.
Brief description:
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, School of Rock, and many other productions. His awards include seven Tonys, three Grammys, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, two international Emmys, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship, and the Kennedy Center Honor. He was knighted in 1992 and was appointed an honorary life peer in 1997. He lives in London, where he own seven theatres, including the London Palladium.
Review Quotes:
"Mr. Lloyd Webber's charmingly idiosyncratic, surprisingly endearing and ruthlessly entertaining autobiography." - Wall Street Journal
"An enlightening look into Andrew Lloyd Webber's early life and professional career." - Broadway World
"The unworried Unmasked proves as readable as his hits are watchable." - Washington Post
"(Unmasked) is a gripping insight into a rich and intensely creative life." - BBC America
"Unmasked (the title is a play on Phantom's signature facial gear) will tickle music and theater geeks. It's an insider's inside account, highly readable, thanks to Lloyd Webber's affable, intelligent voice" - USA Today
"THERE IS NOTHING ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER CAN'T DO...
THIS MEMOIR PROVES THAT HE CAN WRITE STYLISH
AND WITTY PROSE TOO." - Sunday Times (London)
"An autobiography that has...wit, surprise, contemporaneity, audacity, and an appealingly shrewd sense of the occasion." - New Yorker
"I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats!" - Vanity Fair