Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most famous - and most controversial - composer of musical theater alive today. Hundreds of millions of people have seen his musicals, which include Cats, The Phantom of the
Hungarian-born composer Sigmund Romberg (1887?1951) arrived in America in 1909 and within eight years had achieved his first hit musical on Broadway. This early success was soon followed by others, an
A founding father of the modern American musical, Jerome Kern (1885–1945) was the composer of legions of popular songs, including such standards as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and
