Andrew Lloyd Webber Crawford as the Wizard. In 2012 Lloyd Webber fronted a new ITV primetime show "Superstar" which gave the UK public the chance to decide who would play the starring role of Jesus in an upcoming arena tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar". The arena tour started in September 2012 and also starred comedian Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, former Spice Girl Melanie C as Mary Magdalene and BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as King Herod. Tickets for most venues went on sale on 18 May 2012. Webber caused controversy with a series of comments about Eurovision in a "Radio Times"
William Lloyd Webber composers as Sergei Rachmaninov, Jean Sibelius and César Franck, and he became increasingly convinced that his own music was 'out of step' with the prevailing climate of the time. Rather than compromise his style, he turned to the academic side of British musical life - teaching at the Royal College of Music, directing the choir at Central Hall, Westminster, and, in 1964, accepting the Directorship of the London College of Music, a post which he held until his death in 1982. Partsongs William Lloyd Webber William Southcombe Lloyd Webber CBE (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English