Rice, Tim (b. 1944), lyricist and librettist. He was born in Amersham, England, and educated at Lancing College before beginning his career in music broadcasting and recording. Rice first teamed up with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1968 to write the pop cantata Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a boys' school, the team continuing together to write Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) and Evita (1979). Rice's musicals with other composers to play in New York were Chess (1988), Beauty and the Beast (1994), The Lion King (1997), and Aida (2000).

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Copyright © 2004 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved.