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
Lloyd Berrell Youth Show". During World War II he served in Australian Broadcast Control Unit from 1944 to 1946. In 1953 he won a Macquarie Award for best actor in a radio drama. Berrell's first marriage ended in divorce but he married happily a second time. He died of a heart attack on board ship while travelling to London. Lloyd Berrell Lloyd Berrell (13 February 1926 – 30 December 1957) was a New Zealand actor who played Reuben "Roo" Webber in the original Sydney production of "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll". He worked extensively in Australian radio and theatre, and appeared in