The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber Really Useful Records and Polydor on LP (with a gatefold cover), cassette and CD. The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a 1988 compilation album, bringing together some of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's best known compositions at the time of release. It includes songs from the musicals "The Phantom of the Opera", "Tell Me on a Sunday", "Evita", "Cats", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Starlight Express" and "Requiem". Co-writers of the songs include Tim Rice, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe, Charles Hart and Trevor Nunn. The album spent two weeks at
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) other tracks from the musical including "Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You". He was surprised to find he was later replaced by Michael Crawford. For "Behind the Mask", Cameron Mackintosh said: "He wasn't that experienced as an actor. It became obvious to me, and then I discussed it with Hal and Andrew, who also came to the same conclusion that this was a lovely impulse but not the right decision for the show." Harley later recalled: "What happened is a mystery to me. There was no hint that they were unhappy with me, or that they