Seth Christenfeld corrects me on the Broadway musical, The Life. I mistyped when I implied Ira Gasman was the sole author of the book. He collaborated on it with David Newman and Cy Coleman.
And I should have said The Life was Cy Coleman's last musical to reach Broadway (so far). He completed at least three others — Pamela's First Musical with David Zippel
and Wendy Wasserstein, Like Jazz with Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Larry Gelbart, and Grace with Seth Gaaikema. That last one was in Dutch, Seth says. There was also one in progress — N, which was all about Napoleon and Josephine. He was working on that with Zippel and Gelbart. Thanks, Seth.
Another follower of this site, Jim Van Dore, notes a bit of…I guess you'd call it irony on some level. The Life is basically about what Times Square was like before the massive cleanup (physically and morally) spearheaded by Disney. And then a number of the ladies who played hookers in The Life wound up voicing the Muses in Disney version of Hercules. It's true: Sooner or later, we all end up working for The Mouse.