For better or worse, Andrew Lloyd Webber has come to symbolize the expensive, effects-driven Broadway musical of the 1980s and 90s. The scores composed by the hugely successful, multi-award winning Lloyd Webber generally exhibited operatic influences, especially Puccini, and while some critics have complained of a lack of innovation in his scores (usually there are two or three main themes which are repeated), his lushly romantic themes have found popular acceptance.Lloyd Webber met his first collaborator, lyricist Tim Rice while studying music. The duo wrote popular tunes that were recorded
