EditorialThe director Frank Galati, center, in 2000 with the composer Stephen Flaherty, left, and the lyricist Lynn Ahrens. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialSanjiv Saraf, left, the founder of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta, with the poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar in New Delhi, on Dec. 2, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialSanjiv Saraf, left, the founder of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta, with the poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar in New Delhi, on Dec. 2, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialThe playwright, composer, and lyricist Michael R. Jackson on his rooftop deck at home in the Washington Heights neighborhood, in New York on July 14, 2022. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialBilly Porter performs during a tribute to the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim during the 75th Tony Awards in New York on Sunday night, June 12, 2022. Sondheim died on Nov. 26, 2021 at the age of 91. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLyricist and composer Drew Gasparini watches rehearsals for ?The Karate Kid ? The Musical,? in Chesterfield, Mo., May 25, 2022. (Whitney Curtis/The New York Times)
EditorialShaina Taub, “Suffs” book writer, lyricist and composer, with director Leigh Silverman and choreographer Raja Feather Kelly at the Public Theater in Manhattan, on March 11, 2022. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)
EditorialStephen Sondheim at his home in Roxbury, Conn., on Nov. 21, 2021, a few days before his death on Nov. 26 at 91. Sondheim was the theater’s most influential composer-lyricist of the second half of the 20th century. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
EditorialLin-Manuel Miranda, the composer, lyricist and star of "In the Heights," backstage at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York on March 20, 2008.
EditorialPrinces blue electric guitar, Madonnas Vogue outfit and Michael Jacksons loafers among memorabilia going under the hammer in huge music icons auction
EditorialThe director Trip Cullman, left, and Daniel Goldstein, the book writer and co-lyricist of the musical "Unknown Soldier," in New York, Jan. 31, 2020. (Eva Zar/The New York Times)