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Composer and lyricist for the musical theatre
United States · 1930–2021
American composer and lyricist whose musicals include Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George, and who wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.
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No. Although I have to qualify that. Though he was, by jazz standards, a very square composer, he was, by musical theater standards, a not square composer, and he taught me to be less square. I tend to be square.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Los Angeles, California, 5 July 2005 source ↗
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