Biography

Long-time companion of screenwriter Don Bachardy.

Attended school with W.H. Auden.

His musical, "Cabaret (2018)," at the Paramount Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2018 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical or Revue Production.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 277-285. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 449-451. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

It's no good explaining to people why one lives in Hollywood. They either understand or they don't.

[of Princess Margaret] Quite a common little thing.

[asked how he felt about being best known to the general public for having inspired Cabaret (1972)] Any ruffled feelings that I might have have been soothed by checks arriving.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.