2015 – Book and lyrics for Bend It Like Beckham with music by Howard Goodall.2001 – Book and lyrics for The Dreaming with music by Howard Goddall.1998 – Book and lyrics for The Kissing Dance with music by Howard Goodall.1989 – Lyrics for Aspects of Love (co-written with Don Black) with music by Lloyd Webber.1986 – Lyrics for Phantom of the Opera with music by Lloyd Webber.1984 – Book and music for Moll Flanders– competition entry to Vivian Ellis Award.Hart went on to collaborate with Howard Goodall on a number of successful musicals. The collaborative merged with the New Musical Alliance to become Mercury Musical Developments in 1999 and is today a registered charity whose patron is Stephen Sondheim. In 1990, during Stephen Sondheim’s tenure as “Professor of Musical Theatre” at Oxford, Hart linked up with like-minded writers George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Howard Goodall, and in 1992, they founded the Mercury Workshop. Webber hired him as a lyricist for The Phantom of the Opera a year later, which opened in 1986. Hart went on to study music at Robinson College, Cambridge, followed by postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music composition in 1984, when he attracted the attention of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh. He went to school in Maidenhead over the same period when his grandmother was starring in a London stage production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Hart began writing lyrics as a child, some of which were "dark and contemplative – precociously murderous and quite, quite feisty". His maternal grand-parents, Glen Byam Shaw and Angela Baddeley, were actively working in theatre and music throughout his childhood. Hart was born in London in 1961, the son of George Wilson Hart, an antiquarian book dealer, and Juliet Lavinia Hart (née Byam Shaw), actress.
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