(born March 18, 1927, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.) U.S.
songwriter. He studied music at Oberlin College and Columbia University and later wrote arrangements for plays. With lyricist Fred Ebb, a native New Yorker who also studied at Columbia and wrote lyrics for revues, he wrote the scores for some of Broadway's most successful musicals, including Cabaret (1966; film, 1972), Zorba (1968), Chicago (1975; film, 2002), and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992), and for films such as Funny Lady (1975) and New York, New York (1977).
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