Andrew Lloyd Webber theatre. He also had originally set music to "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" at the age of 15. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music and pursue his interest in musical theatre. In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice. Their first collaboration was "The Likes of Us", a musical based on the
Andrew Lloyd Webber on 3 December 2006; it aired on 26 December 2006. On 11 February 2007, Lloyd Webber was featured as a guest judge on the reality television show "" The contestants all sang "The Phantom of the Opera". Between April and June 2007, he appeared in BBC One's "Any Dream Will Do!", which followed the same format as "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?". Its aim was to find a new Joseph for his revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". Lee Mead won the contest after quitting his part in the ensemble – and as understudy in