Tim Rice Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Evita"; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote "Chess"; for additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of "The Wizard of Oz"; and for his work with Alan Menken on Disney's "Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast", and the musical "King
Glenn Slater Blood". He has also composed the lyrics and co-wrote the book for the major Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Love Never Dies", which is a sequel to Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical "The Phantom of the Opera". The show premiered in the West End in March 2010. Adding to his career as a lyricist, Slater wrote the lyrics for the songs in Disney's 50th animated feature "Tangled". In 2015 he worked again with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Broadway musical "School of Rock" and continued his working relationship with Alan Menken writing lyrics for the songs of "Galavant" on ABC. Slater attended