He has written music and lyrics for theater, film, television and pop records. His vast number of works include the lyrics for Disney s Newsies (music by Alan Menken). THUMBERLINA, OLIVER & COMPANY, TRIBUTE, HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK and THE LION KING II: SIMBA'S PRIDE.

He has written dozens of pop songs, including the Grammy award-winning "Copacabana" and the top 10 hit, "I made It Through the Rain". For the theater, he wrote the score for Ted Tally s, COMING ATTRACTIONS, Wendy Wasserman s, ISN'T IT ROMANTIC and the score for the musical, MIAMI, which he wrote with Mr. Sussman and Ms. Wasserstein.