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).
Tim Rice
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- Born: November 10, 1944, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Englan
- Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
- Genres: Soundtrack
- Instrument: Vocals, Lyre
- Representative Albums: "Collection: Stage & Screen Classics", "That's My Story", "Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber: Performance"
- Representative Songs: "Don't Cry for Me Argentina", "A Whole New World", "All Time High"
Biography
Famed for his enormously successful collaboration with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyricist Tim Rice was born November 10, 1944, in Buckinghamshire, England. After fronting the little-known pop combo the Aardvarks during the early '60s, he worked at a law firm before first teaming with Lloyd Webber in 1965 to author the musical The Likes of Us; the show never reached the stage, however, and the two went their separate ways, with Rice accepting a position with EMI Records. He reunited with Lloyd Webber in 1968 for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a pop musical inspired by the Biblical character Joseph; the original production, lasting just 20 minutes, was first mounted at London's Colet Court School, and subsequent expanded performances at Westminster's Central Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral led to a Decca cast recording issued in early 1969.Rice and Lloyd Webber's next collaboration, the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, rocketed the duo to international renown; first documented as a double album featuring performers including Murray Head, Deep Purple's Ian Gillan, and Yvonne Elliman, the LP topped the American pop charts, and successful productions were soon mounted both on Broadway and in London's West End. (The latter, which premiered August 9, 1972, at the Palace Theater, later surpassed Oliver! as the longest-running musical in British theater history.) The Jesus Christ Superstar feature film followed in 1973, the same year Rice and Lloyd Webber began work on their next project, a musical based on the life of Eva Peron, the wife of Argentine president Juan Peron; highlighted by singer Julie Covington's international chart-topper "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," the 1976 album Evita appeared nearly two years prior to the show's mid-1978 opening at the Prince Edward Theater, with the subsequent Broadway production winning seven Tony Awards.
Rice's next major production, 1983's Blondel, was authored in tandem with composer Stephen Oliver, while for the follow-up Chess, he teamed with ex-ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. A musical inspired by the events of the Cold War, Chess first surfaced as a 1984 album which generated the Elaine Paige/Barbara Dickson U.K. number one "You Know Him So Well" as well as Murray Head's U.S. chart smash "One Night in Bangkok." The stage show replaced Evita at the Prince Edward Theater in 1986 and proceeded to run for three years; its Broadway counterpart, however, was a colossal financial failure, closing after just 68 performances. In 1986, Rice and Lloyd Webber reunited for Cricket, a 25-minute comedy commissioned in honor of the Queen's 60th birthday, but otherwise Rice maintained a low profile in the years to follow before taking over for the late Howard Ashman to complete work on the 1992 animated Disney feature Aladdin. The soundtrack's "A Whole New World," written with composer Alan Menken, topped the U.S. charts and went on to take home an Academy Award.
Remaining at Disney, Rice next teamed with Elton John for 1993's The Lion King; the most successful animated picture of all time, it too earned an Oscar for Best Original Song, in this case the smash "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" The following year Rice and Menken wrote several new songs for the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast, inspired by the 1991 Disney film blockbuster; in 1997, The Lion King was adapted for the Broadway stage as well. In the interim, Rice collaborated with composer John Farrar for Heathcliff, a musical based on the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights which was first issued as a 1995 LP featuring Cliff Richard before making its London stage debut the following year. He and Menken also re-teamed for King David, which appeared on LP in 1997 but for a handful of a handful of previews remained otherwise largely unseen. Rice next reunited with Elton John for the 1998 stage musical Aida and the 2000 animated feature The Road to El Dorado. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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| Tim Rice | |
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| Birth name | Timothy Miles Bindon Rice |
| Born | 10 November 1944 |
| Origin | Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Genres | Musical theatre, Film, Television |
| Occupations | Lyricist |
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice, KBE (born 10 November 1944) is an English lyricist, author, radio personality and television gameshow panellist.
An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and his work for The Walt Disney Company with Alan Menken (Aladdin), Elton John (The Lion King and Aida).
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Early life
Rice was born at Shardeloes, a country house near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England that was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during World War II. His father, Hugh Gordon Rice, served with the Eighth Army and reached the rank of major during World War II, whilst his mother, Joan Odette (née Bawden), served in the WAAF as a photographic interpreter.[1][2] After the war they both worked for the de Havilland aircraft company. Rice lived in Croxley Green, Radlett and Hatfield, Hertfordshire as a child and was educated at Aldwickbury school, St Albans School and Lancing College. He left school with GCE A-Levels in History and French and then started work as an articled clerk for a law firm in London, having decided not to apply for a university place[3]
Career
After studying for a year in Paris at the Sorbonne, Rice joined EMI Records as a management trainee in 1966. When EMI producer Norrie Paramor left to set up his own organisation in 1968, Rice joined him as an assistant producer, working with, among others, Cliff Richard.
He has collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and his work for The Walt Disney Company with Alan Menken (Aladdin), Elton John (The Lion King). He also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA on Chess and with Rick Wakeman on the concept albums 1984 and Cost of Living.
Along with his brother Jo and radio presenters Mike Read and Paul Gambaccini, he was a co-founder of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and served as an editor from 1977 to 1996. He has also been a frequent guest panelist for many years on the radio panel games Just a Minute and Trivia Test Match. Rice often jokes that he is most recognised in America for his appearance in the film About a Boy. The film includes several clips from a (real) edition of the game show Countdown on which he was the guest adjudicator. His other interests include cricket (he was President of the MCC in 2002) and maths. He wrote the foreword to the book Why Do Buses Come In Threes by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham, and featured prominently in Tony Hawks' One Hit Wonderland, where he co-wrote the song which gave Hawks a top twenty hit in Albania.
He released his autobiography Oh What a Circus - The Autobiography of Tim Rice in 1998, which covered his childhood and early adult life until the opening of the original London production of Evita in 1978. He is currently working on a sequel, covering his life and career since then.
Rice was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994[4] (entitling him to the address "Sir Tim Rice" or "Sir Tim"), was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999 and was, in 2002, named a Disney Legend.[4]
In 2008, Rice received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[5] Tim is writing eight lyrics to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker. The working title is The Nutcracker: The Untold Story.[6]
Personal life
Rice married Jane McIntosh on 19 August 1974, but the marriage broke up in the late-1980s after the British tabloid newspapers revealed that he had been conducting an affair with actress/singer Elaine Paige.[7][8][9] Jane retains the title Lady Rice. They had two children, Eva and Donald. Eva Rice, who was named after the title character from Evita, is the author of the novel The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, which was a finalist for the British Book Award, "Best Read of the Year".
Rice supports Sunderland A.F.C. football club, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Sunderland at a ceremony at the Stadium of Light in November 2006.[10] He was also a supporter of the Conservative Party, but in 2007 stated that the Conservatives were no longer interested in him and that his relationship with the Party had "irrevocably changed."[11]
Rice runs his own amateur Heartaches Cricket Club, the name inspired by an Elvis Presley song.[12]
He is the Co-Founder of Pavilion Books
Musical theatre
- 1967 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 1970 - Jesus Christ Superstar with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 1976 - Evita with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 1983 - Blondel with music by Stephen Oliver
- 1984 - Chess with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
- 1986 - Cricket with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 1992 - Tycoon
- 1993 - Beauty and the Beast with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Rice with music by Alan Menken
- 1996 - Heathcliff with music by John Farrar
- 1997 - The Lion King with music by Elton John
- 1997 - King David with music by Alan Menken
- 2000 - Aida with music by Elton John
- 2005 - The Likes of Us with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (written in 1965, but first staged at the Sydmonton Festival on 9 July 2005[13]).
Film and television work
In addition to adaptations of his theatrical productions, Rice has worked on several original film and television projects:
- 1992 - Aladdin - music by Alan Menken. Completed work begun by Howard Ashman.
- 1994 - The Lion King - music by Elton John, score by Hans Zimmer.
- 2000 - The Road to El Dorado - Music by Elton John, score by Hans Zimmer and John Powell
Lyricist
- "The Golden Boy" and "The Fallen Priest", recorded on Freddie Mercury's solo album Barcelona
- 1981 concept album 1984 composed by Rick Wakeman and inspired by the George Orwell novel of the same title
- "The Second Time", "The Last One to Leave", "Hot As Sun" and "Falling Down to Earth" on Elaine Paige's 1981 self-titled album
- "All Time High", the theme tune to the James Bond film, Octopussy, written with John Barry and sung by Rita Coolidge (1983).
Other work
- Co-produced the 1986 London and 1988 Broadway productions of Chess as a partner in 3 Knights Ltd with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
- Co-produced the 1989 London production of Anything Goes as a partner in Anchorage Productions with Elaine Paige.
- Co-produced, with Andrew Powell, Elaine Paige's 1981 self-titled album
- Occasionally appears as a panelist on the BBC Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute.
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Stephen Sondheim for Sweeney Todd |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics 1979-1980 for Evita |
Succeeded by none |
| Preceded by Ronnie Corbett |
President of Lord's Taverners 1988-1990 |
Succeeded by Leslie Crowther |
References
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Tim-Rice.html
- ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article601064.ece
- ^ Tim Rice (1999). Oh, What a Circus: The Autobiography. Coronet Books. ISBN 0-340-65459-7.
- ^ a b Disney Legends — Sir Tim Rice
- ^ Tim Rice. "Sir Tim Rice - Career Synopsis". http://www.timrice.co.uk/bio.html. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ Tim Rice. "The Nutcracker: The Untold Story". http://www.timrice.co.uk/nc.html. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
- ^ Hastings, Christopher."Elaine Paige: Sex, drugs and musicals,"[telegraph.co.uk, 20 September 2008
- ^ Middlehurst, Lester."Dont Cry For Me!",The Daily Mail, 20 May 2006
- ^ Kay, Richard."Cry for Tim Rice - he's single again,"dailymail.co.uk, 09 December 2003
- ^ "University honour for songwriter". BBC News. 27 November 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6188564.stm.
- ^ guardian.co.uk. "Tim Rice: Tories no longer love me". Guardian News and Media Limited, 15 February, 2007.
- ^ Viner, Brian."Rice revels in latest role as MCC superstar",independent.co.uk, 5 October 2002
- ^ "First Lloyd Webber/Rice Collaboration on CD",British Theatre Guide, 6 October, 2005
External links
- Tim Rice Authorized Website
- Tim Rice at the Internet Movie Database
- Tim Rice's 2006 revival of Blondel
- Tim Rice at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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