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 (b. 1932), 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 films such as Funny Lady (1975) and New York, New York (1977).