The Theatre Royal Drury Lane is currently the subject of a £60 million refurbishment. Every penny of profit from his theatres is re-invested in the buildings. He owns seven West End Theatres including the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, The London Palladium and The Other Palace, which provides a unique London home for new musicals in development. Other productions include the Olivier Award-winning Daisy Pulls It Off and La Bête, the record-breaking London Palladium production of The Sound of Music and Which introduced the double Oscar-winning Bollywood composer AR Rahman to the Western stage. He has co-produced his own shows, including Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, and as a solo producer he presented the groundbreaking Bombay Dreams, His production of School of Rock is the first British musical to have world premiered on Broadway. Other musicals he has composed include Aspects of Love, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Love Never Dies. When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway in February 2017, Andrew Lloyd Webber became the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four Broadway shows running concurrently.
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