Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: in 1982, as Best Score, both music
and lyrics, for "Nine;" and in 1997, as Best Original Musical Score,
both music and lyrics, for "Titanic." He was also nominated in 1990, as
Best Score (Musical), in collaboration with Bob Wright and Chet Forrest, both
music and lyrics, for "Grand Hotel, the Musical."
In live theater, the author is a theory put into practice by the actors. The theater is a lie in which you harpoon the imagination of the audience in creating the fantasy that's on stage.
