Andrew Lloyd Webber With rewritten lyrics it became "King Herod's Song" in their third musical, "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1970). The planned follow-up to "Jesus Christ Superstar" was a musical comedy based on the Jeeves and Wooster novels by P. G. Wodehouse. Tim Rice was uncertain about this venture, partly because of his concern that he might not be able to do justice to the novels that he and Lloyd Webber so admired. After doing some initial work on the lyrics, he pulled out of the project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical "Jeeves" with Alan Ayckbourn, who provided the book and lyrics.
Andrew Lloyd Webber to the poetry of T. S. Eliot. "Cats" (1981) was to become the longest running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years before closing. On Broadway, "Cats" ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, "The Phantom of the Opera". "Starlight Express" (1984) was a commercial hit, but received negative reviews from the critics. It enjoyed a record run in the West End, but ran for less than two years on Broadway. The show has also seen two tours of the US, as well as an Australian/Japanese production, a three-year