Lloyd Webber’s rock-flavored account of Jesus’s life began as a concept album before debuting on Broadway. The show, famous for hits like “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” opened to controversy from religious groups. Nonetheless, Lloyd Webber won a Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Composer.

The show had second, third, and fourth comings on Broadway in 1977, 2000, and 2012. And in 2025, a three-day concert staging at the Hollywood Bowl in L.A. — starring Cynthia Erivo, Adam Lambert, and more — went viral online and got fans clamoring for a fifth.

Lloyd Webber looked to Argentine history — and actress Patti LuPone — to tell the downcast-to-Dior life story of leader Eva Perón. He took home a Tony Award for his score and carved hits like “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” into showtune history.

Evita ran from September 1979 to June 1983, and the show received a Broadway revival in 2012. A buzzy 2025 production in London's West End starring Rachel Zegler, who famously sang "Don't Cry" on a balcony outside the theatre for the masses each night, has sparked rumors of a future Broadway transfer.

Lloyd Webber sought inspiration from a well-known biblical tale for this uplifting show that was nominated for seven Tony Awards and ran 747 performances. Decades before recycled fashion was trendy, Dreamcoat was revived in 1993.

Lloyd Webber merged music with text from T.S. Eliot’s Old Possums’ Book of Practical Cats — plus new lyrics by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe — into a show about felines and redemption. He notched his second Tony win for Best Score and made “Memory” an indelible song. The show ran 7,485 performances and is the fifth-longest-running Broadway show ever. Cats pawed its way back to Broadway in 2016, and that revival lasted a respectable 593 performances of its own.

A reimagined revival titled Cats: The Jellicle Ball, which sets the action at a queer ballroom contest, premiered off Broadway in 2024 to critical acclaim and is set for a spring 2026 Broadway transfer.

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This show about romance and commitment had a split personality. Act 1 followed a woman (played by Bernadette Peters, who won a Tony) who was undecided about two men. Act 2, told through dance, traced the steps of a man with relationship issues.

Roller skates! They’re the first things you think of regarding this fantastical show. The cast wore them to play various train cars — like Dinah the dining car (Jane Krakowski) and Ashley the smoking car (Andrea McArdle) — in the race of their lives. The show chugged along for 761 performances.

Obsession is a two-way street. The masked Phantom, a music teacher, is fixated on a young soprano who loves someone else, only intensifying his passion. Broadway audiences became equally enraptured with songs like “Music of the Night” and “All I Ask of You” — and the entire show.

The legendary musical ended its record-setting run on April 16 after 35 years and nearly 14,000 performances, making it the longest-running Broadway show of all time.

Love doesn’t run smoothly for the people in this musical, who are caught up in complicated relationships. The show gets off with a bang; the opening song “Love Changes Everything” is a keeper that sticks in your head for days. The show ran 377 performances on Broadway.

Lloyd Webber tapped the classic 1950 movie about fictional silent film star Norma Desmond, who’s desperate for a comeback. Powerhouse songs including “With One Look” and “As If We Never Said Goodbye” led to the composer’s third Tony win for Best Score.

Glenn Close originated the role of Norma on Broadway and reprised it in a 2017 revival, and Nicole Scherzinger was the latest leading lady to take on the role. She won an Olivier Award for her London performance in 2024 and made her Broadway debut with it later that year, winning a Tony Award in 2025.

Adapted from books by P.G. Wodehouse about the misadventures of a gentleman and his ever-ready valet, this chipper musical collaboration with Alan Ayckborn ran 73 performances.

Wilkie Collins’s spooky Victorian potboiler inspired Lloyd Webber here. The show, which ran for 109 performances, concerns a love triangle involving two sisters and their art tutor, along with the enigmatic title figure.

The 2003 Jack Black film about a substitute teacher who helps students prepare for a Battle of the Bands — but isn’t who he says he is — was the source for this kid-forward musical. The show pounded out a message about the power of rock for 1,309 performances.

This show arrived in NYC following a run in London, with some retooling and a title change. This contemporary take on a classic fairy tale, originally called Cinderella like its source material, considers what it means to be beautiful. Linedy Genao took on the title role, and Carolee Carmello was her icky stepmom in the show at the Imperial Theatre.

The Phantom wasn't going to stop haunting the NYC theatre scene for long. Lloyd Webber began teasing a Phantom of the Opera return the second its Broadway run ended, and in summer 2025, that return manifested as Masquerade off Broadway. In this immersive reimagining, the Phantom himself guides audiences through a multi-story venue that's been transformed into the opera house, his underground lair, and more.

Expect the same plot (with a few rearrangements and new musical stylings) and a different dress code: Masks and upscale attire are required. You'll never experience the music of the night the same way again.

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