The Wizard of Oz (2011 musical) "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1971) and "Evita" (1978). Except for a special collaboration for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday celebration, the musical "Cricket" in 1986, after "Evita", each man turned to other collaborators to produce further well-known musical theatre works. "The Wizard of Oz" was Rice and Lloyd Webber's first production together in the West End in over three decades. To create the new musical, Lloyd Webber and director Jeremy Sams adapted the 1939 film's screenplay, and Rice and Lloyd Webber added several new songs to the film's score. In 2010, Lloyd Webber told the "Daily Mail", "The fact is that "The
Andrew Lloyd Webber commissioned Lloyd Webber and Rice to write a piece for the school's choir. Doggett requested a "pop cantata" along the lines of Herbert Chappell's "The Daniel Jazz" (1963) and Michael Hurd's "Jonah-Man Jazz" (1966), both of which had been published by Novello and were based on the Old Testament. The request for the new piece came with a 100-guinea advance from Novello. This resulted in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph, in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiched a number of pop-music styles such as Elvis-style rock'n'roll, Calypso and country music.