Andrew Lloyd Webber "Jeeves" failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a run of only three weeks in 1975. Many years later, Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn revisited this project, producing a thoroughly reworked and more successful version entitled "By Jeeves" (1996). Only two of the songs from the original production remained ("Half a Moment" and "Banjo Boy"). Lloyd Webber collaborated with Rice once again to write "Evita" (1978 in London/1979 in U.S.), a musical based on the life of Eva Perón. As with "Jesus Christ Superstar", Evita was released first as a concept album (1976) and featured Julie
Julian Lloyd Webber support for In Harmony across England by extending funding from the Department for Education and adding funding from Arts Council England from 2012 to 2015. Lloyd Webber now chairs the charity Sistema England. In October 2012 he led the Incorporated Society of Musicians campaign against the implementation of the English Baccalaureate which proposed to remove arts subjects from the core curriculum. In February 2013 the government withdrew its plans. Lloyd Webber has represented the music education sector on programmes such as BBC1's "Question Time", "The Andrew Marr Show", BBC2's "Newsnight" and BBC Radio 4's "Today", "The World at One", "PM",