Andrew Lloyd Webber is composer of: (theatre) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jeeves later reworked as By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me On A Sunday later combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game; (film) Gumshoe, The Odessa File, additional music Evita; and Requiem, a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass. In 1977 he founded the Really Useful Group which produces his own work and that of other writers. Among the latter are Daisy Pulls It Off and La Bete, both Olivier award winners, The Hired Man and A R Rahman’s smash-hit musical Bombay Dreams which he is preparing for its North American premiere in 2003/4. A re-written version of Tell Me On A Sunday starring Denise Van Outen will opened in London in the spring of 2003 and he is currently working on a musical based on Wilkie Collins’ classic novel The Woman In White. The Really Useful Group is co-owner of Really Useful Theatres which is London’s largest proprietor of West End theatres, including the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the London Palladium and the Palace. His awards include seven Tonys, three Grammys, six Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, an International Emmy, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers award for Excellence in Musical Theatre and the Critics’ Circle award for Best Musical 2000. He was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.