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What is the best Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?

By YPB Team

From gothic mega-spectacles to rock operas and family-friendly romps, these shows span five decades of West End and Broadway history. Which one takes the crown?

  1. The Phantom of the Opera — ranked #11
    The Phantom of the Opera
    The longest-running show in Broadway history, a gothic romance built around a masked composer's obsession.
    1000pts
  2. The Beautiful Game — ranked #22
    The Beautiful Game
    A musical set in 1960s Belfast following young footballers caught up in sectarian conflict.
    600pts
  3. Jesus Christ Superstar — ranked #33
    Jesus Christ Superstar
    A pioneering 1971 rock opera retelling the final days of Jesus, written with Tim Rice.
    494pts
  4. Cats — ranked #44
    Cats
    A sung-through spectacle based on T.S. Eliot poems, famous for the power ballad 'Memory'.
    494pts
  5. Stephen Ward — ranked #55
    Stephen Ward
    A musical dramatizing the British osteopath at the center of the 1960s Profumo scandal.
    428pts
  6. Sunset Boulevard — ranked #66
    Sunset Boulevard
    A lush adaptation of Billy Wilder's film noir about a faded silent-film star, featuring 'As If We Never Said Goodbye'.
    350pts
  7. Cinderella — ranked #77
    Cinderella
    A modern, witty 2021 reimagining of the fairy tale with lyrics by David Zippel.
    350pts
  8. Love Never Dies — ranked #88
    Love Never Dies
    The Phantom of the Opera's sequel, relocating the story to Coney Island a decade later.
    350pts
  9. School of Rock — ranked #99
    School of Rock
    A family-friendly 2015 stage adaptation of the Jack Black film about a fake substitute teacher forming a kids' rock band.
    257pts
  10. Whistle Down the Wind — ranked #1010
    Whistle Down the Wind
    A musical about children who mistake an escaped convict for Jesus, set in the rural American South.
    257pts
  11. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — ranked #1111
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    A playful biblical pop-cantata and the first Lloyd Webber-Rice collaboration.
    257pts
  12. Evita — ranked #1212
    Evita
    A rock opera chronicling the rise of Argentine icon Eva Perón, home to 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina'.
    257pts
  13. Starlight Express — ranked #1313
    Starlight Express
    A roller-skating spectacle where performers play anthropomorphic trains racing for glory.
    143pts
  14. Aspects of Love — ranked #1414
    Aspects of Love
    A chamber musical about the tangled romantic entanglements of a group of lovers across decades.
    143pts
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