ano children during the opening ceremonies in front of 50,000 people including Emperor Akihito. With all of these professional artists asking Andrew Lloyd Webber to compose music for them or them performing his music shows that Lloyd Webber must be a good composer who’s music loved by many people.Each one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals is about different topics so they will appeal to all kinds of people. No two are alike. Most composers only make musicals that only appeal to one particular audience. Not like Lloyd Webber. He covers all of the bases from Christianity with Jesus Christ Superstar to Phantom of the Opera, which is about spirits and ghosts. On the other side you have Cats with back street, poor cats to Evita, which is about royalty who had whatever she wanted. So whatever Lloyd Webber composes, he’s going to affect someone and he will appeal to. Take a look at Evita. It’s about a political figure who had scandal, money problems, and she’s liked by most but hated by the important people. It’s just like today’s times with President Clinton. Scandals with Monica Lewinsky, money problems like Watergate, and many liked him but a lot of important people didn’t. This just shows why many loved Evita when it came out on movie because they deal with the same things that people are interested in and they can relate with. Mr. Showbiz.com states that the weekend it came out on the big-screen, it grossed $8.6 Million with a hefty $12,216 per-screen average. Jesus Christ Superstar is another of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular musicals that appeals to a greatly numbered crowd. In 1993 there were about 1 billion Christians in the world alone. Let’s say only ten percent of those people see the musical, that’s still 100 million people that enjoyed his musical. Money and numbers are just another reason to show that Andrew Lloyd Webber appeals to the many diverse audiences in the...
